Article 10Reduction of Administrative Monetary Penalty by Implementing Refund Measures
第十条（返金措置の実施による課徴金の額の減額等）
When there is a request from a general consumer who has conducted a transaction of goods or services during the period subject to administrative monetary penalty prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (2), and who is specified pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, if a person who has received a notice under the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) seeks to implement a measure to deliver an amount of money that is equivalent to or greater than the amount obtained by multiplying the purchase amount calculated by the method specified by Cabinet Order by three one-hundredth (including prepaid payment instruments referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Payment Services Act (Act No. 59 of 2009) issued by a third-party type issuer prescribed in paragraph (7) of that Article and other payment instruments specified by Cabinet Office Order, and conforms to the criteria specified by Cabinet Office Order as those that may be normally used in the same manner as money (referred to as "payment instruments other than money" below in this paragraph); the same applies below in this Article and paragraph (2) of the following Article) (when taking measures of delivering payment instruments other than money, limited to those to be taken for a person who has consented to be delivered payment means other than money; referred to as "refund measures" below in this Article and the following Article), the person may obtain approval for the measures by preparing a plan on refund measures they seek to implement and submit the plan to the Prime Minister (referred to as the "planned refund measures" below in this Article) (referred to as the "plan for implementing refund measures" below in this Article) by the submission deadline of the written explanation prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1), pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.
第十五条第一項の規定による通知を受けた者は、第八条第二項に規定する課徴金対象期間において当該商品又は役務の取引を行つた一般消費者であつて政令で定めるところにより特定されているものからの申出があつた場合に、当該申出をした一般消費者の取引に係る商品又は役務の政令で定める方法により算定した購入額に百分の三を乗じて得た額以上の金銭（資金決済に関する法律（平成二十一年法律第五十九号）第三条第七項に規定する第三者型発行者が発行する同条第一項第一号の前払式支払手段その他内閣府令で定めるものであつて、金銭と同様に通常使用することができるものとして内閣府令で定める基準に適合するもの（以下この項において「金銭以外の支払手段」という。）を含む。以下この条及び次条第二項において同じ。）を交付する措置（金銭以外の支払手段を交付する措置にあつては、当該金銭以外の支払手段の交付を承諾した者に対し行うものに限る。以下この条及び次条において「返金措置」という。）を実施しようとするときは、内閣府令で定めるところにより、その実施しようとする返金措置（以下この条において「実施予定返金措置」という。）に関する計画（以下この条において「実施予定返金措置計画」という。）を作成し、これを第十五条第一項に規定する弁明書の提出期限までに内閣総理大臣に提出して、その認定を受けることができる。
The following matters must be entered in the plan for implementing refund measures:
実施予定返金措置計画には、次に掲げる事項を記載しなければならない。
content and implementation period of the planned refund measures;
実施予定返金措置の内容及び実施期間
matters relating to the method of broadly disseminating the information in order for persons subject to the planned refund measures to understand the content of those planned refund measures; and
実施予定返金措置の対象となる者が当該実施予定返金措置の内容を把握するための周知の方法に関する事項
the amount of money required for implementing the planned refund measures and the means of raising those funds.
実施予定返金措置の実施に必要な資金の額及びその調達方法
The plan for implementing refund measures may state the name of the person to whom the refund measures has already been implemented before applying for the approval referred to in paragraph (1), the amount of the money delivered to that person and its calculation method, and other matters prescribed by Cabinet Office Order as those related to the refund measures implemented before the application.
実施予定返金措置計画には、第一項の認定の申請前に既に実施した返金措置の対象となつた者の氏名又は名称、その者に対して交付した金銭の額及びその計算方法その他の当該申請前に実施した返金措置に関する事項として内閣府令で定めるものを記載することができる。
Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, if a person who applied for the approval referred to in paragraph (1) has implemented the refund measures after the application and before receiving a disposition for the application, the person must report to the Prime Minister the name of the person subject to the refund measures, the amount of the money delivered to that person and its calculation method, and other matters prescribed by Cabinet Office Order as those related to the refund measures, without delay.
When an application for the approval referred to in paragraph (1) has been made, the Prime Minister must not approve that application unless the plan for implementing refund measures conforms to all of the following requirements:
内閣総理大臣は、第一項の認定の申請があつた場合において、その実施予定返金措置計画が次の各号のいずれにも適合すると認める場合でなければ、その認定をしてはならない。
the planned refund measures for the plan for implementing refund measures are expected to be smoothly and surely implemented;
当該実施予定返金措置計画に係る実施予定返金措置が円滑かつ確実に実施されると見込まれるものであること。
the plan is not unfairly discriminatory towards specific persons among the persons that are subject to the planned refund measures for the plan for implementing refund measures (if the plan for implementing refund measures states the matters prescribed in paragraph (3) or if the report under the provisions of preceding paragraph has been made, including the persons for whom the refund measures related to the statement or report have been implemented); and
当該実施予定返金措置計画に係る実施予定返金措置の対象となる者（当該実施予定返金措置計画に第三項に規定する事項が記載されている場合又は前項の規定による報告がされている場合にあつては、当該記載又は報告に係る返金措置が実施された者を含む。）のうち特定の者について不当に差別的でないものであること。
the implementation period prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) stated in the plan for implementing refund measures is to end within the period prescribed by Cabinet Office Order as a period found appropriate for promoting the recovery of damage suffered by the general consumers due to the act subject to administrative monetary penalty.
当該実施予定返金措置計画に記載されている第二項第一号に規定する実施期間が、当該課徴金対象行為による一般消費者の被害の回復を促進するため相当と認められる期間として内閣府令で定める期間内に終了するものであること。
A person who has received the approval referred to in paragraph (1) (referred to as the "approved business operator" below in this Article and the following Article) must obtain an approval from the Prime Minister when seeking to change the plan for implementing refund measures for which the approval has been granted, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.
第一項の認定を受けた者（以下この条及び次条において「認定事業者」という。）は、当該認定に係る実施予定返金措置計画を変更しようとするときは、内閣府令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣の認定を受けなければならない。
The provisions of paragraph (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph.
If the Prime Minister finds that the refund measures by an approved business operator are not being implemented in conformity with the approved plan for implementing refund measures (if changes under the provisions of paragraph (6) has been approved, the changed plan; referred to as the "approved implementation plan for refund measures" in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the following Article), the Prime Minister must revoke the approval referred to in paragraph (1) (including the approval of changes under the provisions of paragraph (6); simply referred to as the "approval" in the following paragraph and the proviso to paragraph (10)).
When granting an approval, or revoking an approval pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister is to promptly notify the person subject to the disposition to that effect in writing.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1), if the Prime Minister has granted the approval referred to in paragraph (1), the Prime Minister may not order the approved business operator to pay administrative monetary penalty until the deadline for making the report prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article; provided, however, that this does not apply if the approval has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (8).