The designation as provided for in Article 41-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (hereinafter referred to in this Section as "Designation") is to be made through the application of a person intending to engage in a business to receive earnest money , etc., on behalf of Real Estate Brokers and retain money of amounts equivalent to the amounts of earnest money, etc., received by said Real Estate Brokers in connection with the sale of Building Lots or buildings (excluding any sale as prescribed in Article 41, paragraph (1)) (hereinafter referred to as " Earnest Money Safekeeping Business").
第四十一条の二第一項第一号の指定（以下この節において「指定」という。）は、宅地又は建物の売買（第四十一条第一項に規定する売買を除く。）に関し、宅地建物取引業者に代理して手付金等を受領し、当該宅地建物取引業者が受領した手付金等の額に相当する額の金銭を保管する事業（以下「手付金等保管事業」という。）を営もうとする者の申請により行う。
The provisions of the preceding Section (excluding Article 51, paragraph (1); Articles 57 through 60; and Article 62, paragraph (2), item (vi)) is to apply mutatis mutandis to a Designated Custodian. In such a case, "Cabinet Order" as referred to in Article 51, paragraph (2), item (iii), is read as "an Ordinance of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism"; "provisions of an Indemnity Agreement" as referred to in paragraph (3), item (iii) of the same article and Article 52, item (iv), is read as "provisions of an Earnest Money Deposition Agreement"; "The scope of the guarantee purpose; matters relating to the authority of branch offices and other business offices as specified by Cabinet Order; limits on guarantees; limits on the acceptance of guarantees consigned from guarantee consignors; matters relating to the method by which an Indemnity Agreement is to be concluded; matters relating to criteria for rejecting a guarantee consignment" as referred to in Article 51, paragraph (4), is read as "Matters relating to the retention of earnest moneys , etc."; "pursuant to the provisions of [...]" as referred to in Article 52, items (v) and (vii)(d), is read as "pursuant to the provisions of [...] or Article 64, paragraph (1)"; "document" as referred to in Article 53 is read as "document (excluding a statement of business procedures)"; and "Article 41-2, paragraph (1), item (i)" as referred to in Article 56, paragraph (2), is read as "Article 41, paragraph (1), item (i)".
前節（第五十一条第一項、第五十七条から第六十条まで及び第六十二条第二項第六号を除く。）の規定は、指定保管機関について準用する。この場合において、第五十一条第二項第三号中「政令」とあるのは「国土交通省令」と、同条第三項第三号及び第五十二条第四号中「保証委託契約約款」とあるのは「手付金等寄託契約約款」と、第五十一条第四項中「保証の目的の範囲、支店及び政令で定めるその他の営業所の権限に関する事項、保証限度、各保証委託者からの保証の受託の限度、保証委託契約の締結の方法に関する事項、保証の受託の拒否の基準に関する事項」とあるのは「手付金等の保管に関する事項」と、第五十二条第五号及び第七号ニ中「の規定により」とあるのは「又は第六十四条第一項の規定により」と、第五十三条中「書類」とあるのは「書類（事業方法書を除く。）」と、第五十六条第二項中「第四十一条の二第一項第一号」とあるのは「第四十一条第一項第一号」と読み替えるものとする。