License must not be granted by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a prefectural governor if a person intending to obtain a license as provided for in Article 3, paragraph (1), falls under any of the following items or if a false statement concerning important information has been made or, an entry of important facts has been omitted from the license application form or a document attached thereto:
国土交通大臣又は都道府県知事は、第三条第一項の免許を受けようとする者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合又は免許申請書若しくはその添付書類中に重要な事項について虚偽の記載があり、若しくは重要な事実の記載が欠けている場合においては、免許をしてはならない。
a person who is subject to an order of commencement of bankruptcy proceedings and has not had their rights restored;
破産手続開始の決定を受けて復権を得ない者
a person whose license was rescinded as a result of falling under Article 66, paragraph (1), item (viii) or (ix), and for whom five years have not yet passed from the date of said rescission (including, if the person whose license as provided for herein was rescinded is a corporation, an officer belonging to said corporation at any time within sixty days prior to the public notification of the date and location of hearings pertaining to said rescission (executive member , director, or executive officer or a person similar thereto, such as an executive member, director, executive officer, or any other person deemed to possess the same or a higher level of authority as that possessed thereby who executes operations for the corporation, irrespective of whether the person has been granted a title as an advisor, consultant, or any other position holder; the same applies hereinafter in this article; Article 18, paragraph (1); Article 65, paragraph (2); and Article 66 paragraph (1)) and for whom five years have not yet passed from the date of said rescission);
第六十六条第一項第八号又は第九号に該当することにより免許を取り消され、その取消しの日から五年を経過しない者（当該免許を取り消された者が法人である場合においては、当該取消しに係る聴聞の期日及び場所の公示の日前六十日以内に当該法人の役員（業務を執行する社員、取締役、執行役又はこれらに準ずる者をいい、相談役、顧問、その他いかなる名称を有する者であるかを問わず、法人に対し業務を執行する社員、取締役、執行役又はこれらに準ずる者と同等以上の支配力を有するものと認められる者を含む。以下この条、第十八条第一項、第六十五条第二項及び第六十六条第一項において同じ。）であつた者で当該取消しの日から五年を経過しないものを含む。）
a person who submits a notification under Article 11, paragraph (1), item (iv) or (v), sometime between the date on which the date and location of a hearing for disposition by a rescission of a license to be held as a result of the person falling under Article 66, paragraph (1), item (viii) or (ix), is publicly notified and the date of the said disposition or the date on which it is determined that said disposition will not be imposed (excluding any person with reasonable grounds for a dissolution or the discontinuation of the Real Estate Brokerage) and for whom five years have not yet passed from the date of said notification;
第六十六条第一項第八号又は第九号に該当するとして免許の取消処分の聴聞の期日及び場所が公示された日から当該処分をする日又は当該処分をしないことを決定する日までの間に第十一条第一項第四号又は第五号の規定による届出があつた者（解散又は宅地建物取引業の廃止について相当の理由がある者を除く。）で当該届出の日から五年を経過しないもの
an officer belonging to a corporation that disappeared by a merger occurring within a period as prescribed in the preceding item or a corporation that submitted a notification under Article 11, paragraph (1), item (iv) or (v), (excluding any corporation with reasonable grounds for a merger or dissolution or the discontinuation of the Real Estate Brokerage) at any time within sixty days prior to the public notification as provided for in the preceding item and for whom five years have not yet passed from the date of said extinction or notification;
前号に規定する期間内に合併により消滅した法人又は第十一条第一項第四号若しくは第五号の規定による届出があつた法人（合併、解散又は宅地建物取引業の廃止について相当の理由がある法人を除く。）の前号の公示の日前六十日以内に役員であつた者で当該消滅又は届出の日から五年を経過しないもの
a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier punishment, and for whom five years have not yet passed since the date on which the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its enforcement;
拘禁刑以上の刑に処せられ、その刑の執行を終わり、又は執行を受けることがなくなつた日から五年を経過しない者
a person who has been sentenced to the punishment of a fine as a result of having contravened a provision of this Act or the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members (Act No. 77 of 1991) (excluding provisions of Article 32-3, paragraph (7), and Article 32-11, paragraph (1) of the same Act; the same applies in Article 18, paragraph (1), item (vii), and Article 52, item (vii)-(c)), or committed a crime under Article 204, Article 206, Article 208, Article 208-2, Article 222, or Article 247 of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) or a crime under the Act on the Punishment of Physical Violence and Other Acts (Act No. 60 of 1926) and for whom five years have not yet passed since the date on which the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its enforcement;
この法律若しくは暴力団員による不当な行為の防止等に関する法律（平成三年法律第七十七号）の規定（同法第三十二条の三第七項及び第三十二条の十一第一項の規定を除く。第十八条第一項第七号及び第五十二条第七号ハにおいて同じ。）に違反したことにより、又は刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）第二百四条、第二百六条、第二百八条、第二百八条の二、第二百二十二条若しくは第二百四十七条の罪若しくは暴力行為等処罰に関する法律（大正十五年法律第六十号）の罪を犯したことにより、罰金の刑に処せられ、その刑の執行を終わり、又は執行を受けることがなくなつた日から五年を経過しない者
an organized crime group member as prescribed in Article 2, item (vi) of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members, or a person for whom five years have not yet passed since the date on which the person ceased to be an organized crime group member as prescribed in that item (hereinafter referred to as an "organized crime group member, etc.");
暴力団員による不当な行為の防止等に関する法律第二条第六号に規定する暴力団員又は同号に規定する暴力団員でなくなつた日から五年を経過しない者（以下「暴力団員等」という。）
a person who has committed a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act in connection with the Real Estate Brokerage within five years prior to the license application;
免許の申請前五年以内に宅地建物取引業に関し不正又は著しく不当な行為をした者
a person who is clearly at risk of committing a wrongful act, or an act in bad-faith in connection with the Real Estate Brokerage;
宅地建物取引業に関し不正又は不誠実な行為をするおそれが明らかな者
a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as being unable to properly carry on Real Estate Brokerage due to a mental or physical disability;
心身の故障により宅地建物取引業を適正に営むことができない者として国土交通省令で定めるもの
a minor lacking the same capacity to act as an adult person in connection with a business and whose legal agent (including an officer of a legal agent where said legal agent constitutes a corporation) falls under any of the preceding items;
営業に関し成年者と同一の行為能力を有しない未成年者でその法定代理人（法定代理人が法人である場合においては、その役員を含む。）が前各号のいずれかに該当するもの
a corporation which has an officer or employee as specified by Cabinet Order who falls under any of items (i) through (x);
法人でその役員又は政令で定める使用人のうちに第一号から第十号までのいずれかに該当する者のあるもの
an individual who has an employee as specified by Cabinet Order who falls under any of items (i) through (x);
個人で政令で定める使用人のうちに第一号から第十号までのいずれかに該当する者のあるもの
a person whose business activities are controlled by an organized crime group member, etc.;
暴力団員等がその事業活動を支配する者
a person who fails to satisfy a requirement as prescribed in Article 31-3 applicable to offices.
If no license is to be granted, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or the prefectural governor must provide written notification of the fact thereof to which an applicable reason has been appended to the applicant.
国土交通大臣又は都道府県知事は、免許をしない場合においては、その理由を附した書面をもつて、申請者にその旨を通知しなければならない。