①The Prime Minister is to delegate the authority under this Act (excluding the authority prescribed by Cabinet Order) to the Commissioner of the Consumer Affairs Agency.

②Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, the Commissioner of the Consumer Affairs Agency may delegate part of the authority delegated to them to the Fair Trade Commission.

③If the Commissioner of the Consumer Affairs Agency finds it necessary for effectively issuing an order for measures, a payment order for administrative monetary penalty, or a recommendation under the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) to a business operator because it is necessary to handle unjustifiable premiums and misleading representations in an urgent and focused manner and there are other circumstances prescribed by Cabinet Order, the Commissioner may delegate the authority delegated to them pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) (limited to the authority under the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (1)) to the minister who has jurisdiction over the business of that business operator, or to the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.

④If the Fair Trade Commission, the minister who has jurisdiction over the business of a business operator, or the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency has exercised the authority delegated to them pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, they are to report the results to the Commissioner of the Consumer Affairs Agency, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.

⑤The minister who has jurisdiction over the business of a business operator may delegate all or part of the authority delegated to them pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), and the authority under the provisions of the preceding paragraph to the head of a local branch bureau of ministries and agencies, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.

⑥The Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency may delegate part of the authority delegated to them pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) and the authority under the provisions of paragraph (4) (collectively referred to as the "authority of the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency" in the following paragraph) to the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.

⑦The Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency may delegate part of the authority of the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency (excluding the authority delegated to the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph) to the Director General of Local Finance Bureaus, or the Director General of Local Finance Branch Bureaus, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.

⑧The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission may delegate part of the authority delegated to them pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (6) to the Director General of Local Finance Bureaus, or the Director General of Local Finance Branch Bureaus, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.

⑨The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission is to direct and supervise the Director General of a Local Finance Bureau, or the Director General of a Local Finance Branch Bureau, regarding the affairs related to the authority delegated to the Director General of Local Finance Bureaus, or the Director General of Local Finance Branch Bureaus.

⑩In the case referred to in paragraph (6), a request for a review of an order for the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission to make a report or submit materials (including cases in which the Director General of Local Finance Bureaus, or Director General of the Local Finance Branch Bureaus makes a report or submits objects pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (8)) may only be made to the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission.

⑪Part of the affairs that fall under the authority delegated to the Commissioner of the Consumer Affairs Agency pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) may be conducted by a prefectural governor pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.

①Beyond what is provided for in this Act, necessary matters for implementing this Act are specified by Cabinet Office Order.

②The provisions of Article 37 apply mutatis mutandis to cases in which the Prime Minister intends to establish the Cabinet Office Order provided for in the preceding paragraph (limited to an order for the agreement or rules referred to in Article 36, paragraph (1)).

The Prime Minister, the heads of relevant administrative organs (if the administrative organ is an organ based on a council system, the administrative organ), the heads of relevant local governments, the head of the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan, and other relevant persons are to endeavor to exchange necessary information and to ensure close coordination among them in order to prevent the inducement of customers through unjust premiums and misleading representations, and protect the interests of general consumers.

①The Prime Minister may provide foreign authorities that enforce foreign laws and regulations equivalent to this Act (referred to as a "foreign enforcement authority" in the following paragraph and paragraph (3)) with information that is found to contribute to the performance of their duties (limited to those equivalent to the duties prescribed in this Act; the same applies in the following paragraph).

②Appropriate measures must be taken for the provision of information under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, so that the information is not used for any purpose other than the performance of the duties of the foreign enforcement authority, and, is not used for the investigation of foreign criminal cases (limited to investigation conducted after the criminal facts subject to the investigation have been identified) or their trial (referred to in the following paragraph as "investigation, etc.") without the consent referred to in the following paragraph.

③When requested by a foreign enforcement authority, the Prime Minister may give consent to the use of the information the Prime Minister has provided pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) for the investigation of a criminal case in the foreign country that made the request (referred to as the "requesting country" in item (iii)), excluding the cases falling under any of the following items:

④When giving the consent stated in the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister must obtain confirmation from the Minister of Justice that the case does not fall under item (i) or (ii) of that paragraph, and confirmation from the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the case does not fall under item (iii) of that paragraph.

Documents to be served are specified by Cabinet Office Order in addition to those provided for in this Act.

The provisions of Article 100, paragraph (1), Article 101, Article 102-2, Article 103, Article 105, Article 106, Article 107, paragraph (1) (limited to the part related to item (i); the same applies in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the following Article) and paragraph (3), and Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Act No. 109 of 1996) apply mutatis mutandis to the service of documents. In such a case, the term "court" in Article 100, paragraph (1) of that Act and the term "presiding judge" in Article 108 of that Act are deemed to be replaced with "Prime Minister", the term "court execution officer" in Article 101, paragraph (1) of that Act and the term "court clerk" in Article 107, paragraph (1) of that Act are deemed to be replaced with "employees of the Consumer Affairs Agency", and the term "Rules of the Supreme Court" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Cabinet Office Order".

①The Prime Minister may make a service by publication in the following cases:

②Service by publication is made by making a document stating that the document to be served should be delivered at any time to the person who is to receive the service available for inspection by a large number of unspecified persons by the means specified by Cabinet Office Order, and by posting a document stating that fact on the bulletin board at the Consumer Affairs Agency, or making the information available for inspection by displaying that fact on a screen of a computer installed at the office of the Consumer Affairs Agency.

③Service by publication becomes effective when two weeks have passed from the day on which the measures under the provisions of the preceding paragraph was taken.

④The period referred to in the preceding paragraph is to be six weeks for service by publication for a service required to be made in a foreign country.

When an official of the Consumer Affairs Agency has conducted the affairs concerning a disposition notice, etc. prescribed in Article 3, item (ix) of the Act on the Advancement of Government Administration Processes That Utilize Information and Communications Technology (Act No. 151 of 2002), which are to be conducted by serving documents pursuant to the provisions of this Act or Cabinet Office Order by using the electronic data processing system prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Advancement of Government Administration Processes That Utilize Information and Communications Technology pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of that Act, in lieu of preparing and submitting a document stating the matters on the service under the provisions of Article 100, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 43 following the deemed replacement of terms, the matters must be recorded in a file stored on a computer (including input and output devices) used by the Consumer Affairs Agency by using the electronic data processing system.