A creditor of obligations borne by a funds transfer service provider in relation to funds transfer transactions for a single category of funds transfer services provided by the funds transfer service provider (excluding the case where a person qualified as a performance guarantor that has performed obligations under a performance guarantor's debt assumption contract or a performance guarantor's guarantee contract subrogates to that creditor pursuant to the provisions of Article 499 of the Civil Code (Act No. 89 of 1896)) has the right to receive, in preference over other creditors, payments for the return of security deposits for providing that category of funds transfer services; provided, however, that creditors of obligations that a funds transfer service provider to whom the provisions of Article 45-2, paragraph (1) are applied bears in relation to the funds transfer transactions (limited to funds transfer transactions pertaining to type III funds transfer services) carried out thereby are to have that right, with respect to the claims pertaining to those obligations, up to the amount obtained by deducting the amount obtained by multiplying the amount of the claim by the rate for managing bank deposits or savings from the amount of the claim.
資金移動業者がその営む一の種別の資金移動業に係る為替取引に関し負担する債務に係る債権者（履行保証人債務引受契約又は履行保証人保証契約に基づく債務の弁済をした履行保証人適格者が、民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）第四百九十九条の規定により当該債権者に代位する場合を除く。）は、当該種別の資金移動業に係る履行保証金について、他の債権者に先立ち弁済を受ける権利を有する。ただし、第四十五条の二第一項の規定の適用を受けている資金移動業者がその行う為替取引（第三種資金移動業に係るものに限る。）に関し負担する債務に係る債権者は、当該債務に係る債権については、当該債権の額から当該債権の額に預貯金等管理割合を乗じて得た額を控除した額を限度として、当該権利を有するものとする。
In the cases falling under any of the following items, when the Prime Minister finds it necessary for the protection of the interests of users of funds transfer services, the Minister must give public notice to the effect that persons holding the right specified in the preceding paragraph must file their claims with the Prime Minister within a certain period of not less than sixty days and that they are excluded from the procedure for the fulfillment of the right to the return of the security deposits for providing funds transfer services pertaining to the public notice unless they file their claims within the notified period and take other measures necessary for the fulfillment of the right prescribed in that paragraph:
when a petition is filed for the fulfillment of the right specified in the preceding paragraph; or
前項の権利の実行の申立てがあったとき。
when a petition for commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, etc. is filed against a funds transfer service provider.
資金移動業者について破産手続開始の申立て等が行われたとき。
The Prime Minister may, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, entrust the administrative functions related to the fulfillment of the right prescribed in paragraph (1) to a deposit-taking institution or any other person specified by Cabinet Order (referred to as "agents for a regional finance office that distributes security deposits to holders of prepaid payment instruments" in the following paragraph and in paragraph (5)).
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Acts, an agent for a regional finance office that distributes security deposits to holders of prepaid payment instruments may engage in the business entrusted to the agent pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
With regard to the application of the Penal Code and other penal provisions, an agent for a regional finance office that distributes security deposits to holders of prepaid payment instruments to whom business has been entrusted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) or its officers or employees engaging in the entrusted business are deemed to be officials engaged in public service pursuant to laws and regulations.
Beyond what is provided for in paragraph (2) through the preceding paragraph, particulars necessary for the fulfillment of the right prescribed in paragraph (1) are specified by Cabinet Order.
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(Requirements for Subrogation by Performance)
A person that has performed the obligation for the benefit of the obligor is subrogated to the claim of the obligee.
債務者のために弁済をした者は、債権者に代位する。
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When a funds transfer service provider (limited to a person providing type III funds transfer services) has submitted a written notice containing the following particulars to the Prime Minister…
資金移動業者（第三種資金移動業を営む者に限る。）は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、次に掲げる事項を記載した届出書を内閣総理大臣に提出したときは、第一号に掲げる日以後、第三種資金移動業に係る履行保証金の全部又は一部の供託をしないことができる。
Open this provision(Return of Security Deposits for Providing Funds Transfer Services)
A creditor of obligations borne by a funds transfer service provider in relation to funds transfer transactions for a single category of funds transfer services provided by the funds transfer service…
資金移動業者がその営む一の種別の資金移動業に係る為替取引に関し負担する債務に係る債権者（履行保証人債務引受契約又は履行保証人保証契約に基づく債務の弁済をした履行保証人適格者が、民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）第四百九十九条の規定により当該債権者に代位する場合を除く。）は、当該種別の資金移動業に係る履行保証金について…
Open this provision(Return of Security Deposits for Providing Funds Transfer Services)
In the cases falling under any of the following items, when the Prime Minister finds it necessary for the protection of the interests of users of funds transfer services…
内閣総理大臣は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合において、資金移動業の利用者の利益の保護を図るために必要があると認めるときは、前項の権利を有する者に対し、六十日を下らない一定の期間内に内閣総理大臣に債権の申出をすべきこと及びその期間内に債権の申出をしないときは当該公示に係る履行保証金についての権利の実行の手続から除斥…
Open this provision(Return of Security Deposits for Providing Funds Transfer Services)
The Prime Minister may, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, entrust the administrative functions related to the fulfillment of the right prescribed in paragraph (1) to a…
内閣総理大臣は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、第一項の権利の実行に関する事務を銀行等その他の政令で定める者（次項及び第五項において「権利実行事務代行者」という。）に委託することができる。
Open this provision(Return of Security Deposits for Providing Funds Transfer Services)
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Acts, an agent for a regional finance office that distributes security deposits to holders of prepaid payment instruments may engage in the business…
権利実行事務代行者は、他の法律の規定にかかわらず、前項の規定により委託を受けた業務を行うことができる。
Open this provision(Return of Security Deposits for Providing Funds Transfer Services)
With regard to the application of the Penal Code and other penal provisions, an agent for a regional finance office that distributes security deposits to holders of prepaid payment instruments to…
第三項の規定により業務の委託を受けた権利実行事務代行者又はその役員若しくは職員であって当該委託を受けた業務に従事する者は、刑法その他の罰則の適用については、法令により公務に従事する職員とみなす。
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「資金移動業」
Funds transfer transactions (為替取引) carried on as a business by a person other than a bank or other deposit-taking institution (銀行等).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
funds transfer service provider
「資金移動業者」
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 37 to carry on funds transfer services (資金移動業).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
deposit-taking institutions
「銀行等」
Banks (persons licensed by the Prime Minister under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act to carry on banking), long-term credit banks, shinkin banks (信用金庫) and their federations, labor banks (労働金庫) and their federations, credit cooperatives (信用協同組合), the federations of cooperatives under the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act, the agricultural cooperatives and their federations under the Agricultural Co-operatives Act, and the fishery cooperatives, fishery processing cooperatives and their federations under the Fishery Industry Cooperative Act that carry on the business of accepting deposits or savings, or installment savings (定期積金), from their members, together with the Norinchukin Bank and the Shoko Chukin Bank.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (32)· applies throughout the law
petition for commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, etc.
「破産手続開始の申立て等」
A petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings, rehabilitation proceedings (再生手続), reorganization proceedings (更生手続) or special liquidation (特別清算), or a petition for recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings, including equivalent petitions under foreign law.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (33)· applies throughout the law
type III funds transfer services
「第三種資金移動業」
In Chapter III, funds transfer services (資金移動業) consisting only of funds transfer transactions (為替取引) for transfers of no more than an amount a Cabinet Order (政令) sets as especially small.
Defined inArticle 36-2, paragraph (3)· applies only in this chapter
person qualified as a performance guarantormachine translation
「履行保証人適格者」
In Chapter III, a bank or other deposit-taking institution (銀行等) meeting requirements a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, or another person that Order specifies: the persons who may undertake to deposit, guarantee or take on a funds transfer service provider's obligations in place of part of its own security deposit (履行保証金).
Short name set inArticle 44, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
rate for managing bank deposits or savings
「預貯金等管理割合」
The ratio, stated in a notice to the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) under Article 45-2, paragraph (1) by a funds transfer service provider (資金移動業者) carrying on type III funds transfer services (第三種資金移動業), of the part of its outstanding obligations for transfers not yet completed (未達債務) that it manages by the method for managing bank deposits or savings (預貯金等管理方法), as later changed; the provider must keep, under that method, money at least equal to each business day's outstanding obligations multiplied by that ratio.
Short name set inArticle 45-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article and in Article 59, paragraph (1)
performance guarantor's debt assumption contractmachine translation
「履行保証人債務引受契約」
In Chapter III, a contract between a funds transfer service provider and a person qualified as a performance guarantor (履行保証人適格者) under which the guarantor takes on all or part of the amount of the provider's obligations to all or some users of a type of its funds transfer services, from funds transfer transactions, if a petition for bankruptcy or similar proceedings (破産手続開始の申立て等) is filed against the provider.
Defined inArticle 45-3, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
performance guarantor's guarantee contractmachine translation
「履行保証人保証契約」
In Chapter III, a contract between a person qualified as a performance guarantor (履行保証人適格者) and a user of a funds transfer service provider, made at the provider's request, under which the guarantor guarantees all or part of the provider's obligations to that user from funds transfer transactions of a type of its funds transfer services if a petition for bankruptcy or similar proceedings (破産手続開始の申立て等) is filed against the provider.
Defined inArticle 45-4, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
agent for the exercise of rightsmachine translation
「権利実行事務代行者」
In Article 59, paragraphs (4) and (5), a bank or other deposit-taking institution (銀行等), or another person a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, to which the Prime Minister entrusts the work of carrying out the right that creditors of a funds transfer service provider have, under Article 59, paragraph (1), to be paid out of the security deposit for providing funds transfer services (履行保証金) ahead of other creditors.
Short name set inArticle 59, paragraph (3)· applies only in this provision and in Article 59, paragraphs (4) and (5)
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.