Article 57Posting of a liability reserve
第五十七条（責任準備金の計上）
A Designated Guarantee Agency must post the larger amount as listed in the following as a liability reserve for each business year, if there is a guarantee agreement which is still in effect as of the end of a business year:
指定保証機関は、事業年度末においてまだ経過していない保証契約があるときは、次に掲げる金額のうちいずれか多い金額を、事業年度ごとに責任準備金として計上しなければならない。
amount equivalent to the sum of the guarantee charges corresponding to the guarantee period under said guarantee agreement that remains in effect;
当該保証契約の保証期間のうちまだ経過していない期間に対応する保証料の総額に相当する金額
amount equivalent to the sum of the guarantee charges obtained during said business year, the net of the guarantee money paid based on the guarantee agreement pertaining to said guarantee charges (excluding revenue money obtained from guarantee consignors based on the payment of said guarantee money); outstanding claims reserves that should be accumulated for the guarantee agreement pertaining to said guarantee charges; and the sum of business expenses for said business year, that remains after deduction from the corresponding amount
当該事業年度において受け取つた保証料の総額から当該保証料に係る保証契約に基づいて支払つた保証金（当該保証金の支払に基づく保証委託者からの収入金を除く。）、当該保証料に係る保証契約のために積み立てるべき支払備金及び当該事業年度の事業費の合計額を控除した残額に相当する金額
If a Designated Guarantee Agency posts a liability reserve pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount posted is to include the amount of losses for the purpose of calculating the amount of income posted thereby for the corresponding business year under the Corporation Tax Act (Act No. 34 of 1965).
指定保証機関が前項の規定により責任準備金を計上した場合においては、その計上した金額は、法人税法（昭和四十年法律第三十四号）の規定によるその計上した事業年度の所得の金額の計算上、損金の額に算入する。
The amount of the liability reserve included in the amount of losses pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to include the amount of profits for the purpose of calculating the amount of income posted thereby for the following business year under the Corporation Tax Act.
Article 58Accumulation of an outstanding claims reserve
第五十八条（支払備金の積立て）
If there is an amount as listed in any of the following items, a Designated Guarantee Agency must accumulate the corresponding amount as listed in said each item as an outstanding claims reserve in each settlement term:
指定保証機関は、決算期ごとに、次の各号の一に掲げる金額がある場合においては、支払備金として当該各号に掲げる金額を積み立てなければならない。
if there is any guarantee money or other amount that should be paid based on a guarantee agreement for which payment will not be completed within the settlement term, the amount thereof;
保証契約に基づいて支払うべき保証金その他の金額のうちに決算期までにその支払が終わらないものがある場合においては、その金額
if there is any guarantee money or other amount for which it is deemed that the obligation to pay based on a guarantee agreement has arisen, the amount for which it is deemed that payment is required;
保証契約に基づいて支払う義務が生じたと認められる保証金その他の金額がある場合においては、その支払うべきものと認められる金額
if there is any guarantee money or other amount that has not been paid given that a suit in connection therewith is currently pending, the amount thereof.
現に保証金その他の金額について訴訟が係属しているために支払つていないものがある場合においては、その金額
Article 59Payment guarantee fund
第五十九条（保証基金）
A Designated Guarantee Agency must, pursuant to the provisions of its articles of association, set up a payment guarantee fund.
指定保証機関は、定款の定めるところにより、保証基金を設けなければならない。
If a Designated Guarantee Agency is unable to pay a guarantee obligation out of its liability reserve, it may use its payment guarantee fund only for allocation to repayment of said guarantee obligation.
指定保証機関は、責任準備金をもつて保証債務を支払うことができない場合においては、当該保証債務の弁済に充てる場合に限り、保証基金を使用することができる。
If the sum of the amounts of guarantee obligations pertaining to an Indemnity Agreement to be concluded by and between a Designated Guarantee Agency and a Real Estate Broker exceeds an amount as specified by Cabinet Order, said Designated Guarantee Agency is not to conclude said Indemnity Agreement.
第六十一条（改善命令）
If the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism deems it necessary and appropriate to protect the interests of a buyer where a Designated Guarantee Agency comes to fall under the provisions of any of Article 52, items (ii) through (iv), said minister may order said Designated Guarantee Agency to take measures required for the amelioration of the status of property or the operations of the business thereof to the extent of said necessity.
国土交通大臣は、指定保証機関が第五十二条第二号から第四号までの規定に該当することとなつた場合において、買主の利益を保護するため必要かつ適当であると認めるときは、その必要の限度において、当該指定保証機関に対し、財産の状況又はその事業の運営を改善するため必要な措置を執るべきことを命ずることができる。
Article 62Rescission of designation
第六十二条（指定の取消し等）
If a Designated Guarantee Agency falls under any of the following items or contravenes a provision of this Act, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may issue instructions as necessary to said Designated Guarantee Agency:
国土交通大臣は、指定保証機関が次の各号の一に該当する場合又はこの法律の規定に違反した場合においては、当該指定保証機関に対して、必要な指示をすることができる。
when damage is caused or there is a significant risk that damage will be caused to a person concerned with an Earnest Money Guarantee Business;
手付金等保証事業に関しその関係者に損害を与えたとき、又は損害を与えるおそれが大であるとき。
when acts in bad-faith are committed in connection to an Earnest Money Guarantee Business;
手付金等保証事業に関し不誠実な行為をしたとき。
when the Designated Guarantee Agency is deemed inappropriate as a Designated Guarantee Agency for having contravened another law or other regulations in connection with an Earnest Money Guarantee Business.
If a Designated Guarantee Agency falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may rescind the Designation of said Designated Guarantee Agency or order said Designated Guarantee Agency to suspend its Earnest Money Guarantee Business in whole or in part for a prescribed period not longer than six months:
when the Designation was obtained by unlawful means;
不正の手段により指定を受けたとき。
when the Designated Guarantee Agency comes to fall under Article 52, item (i), (vi), or (vii);
when the Designated Guarantee Agency fails to provide a notification under Article 53;
第五十三条の規定による届出を怠つたとき。
when no notification under Article 55, paragraph (1), has been submitted and a fact falling under any of items (ii) through (iv) of the same paragraph is ascertained;
第五十五条第一項の規定による届出がなくて同項第二号から第四号までの一に該当する事実が判明したとき。
when the Designated Guarantee Agency engages in business other than the Earnest Money Guarantee Business in contravention of the provisions of Article 56, paragraph (1);
when the Designated Guarantee Agency concludes an Indemnity Agreement in contravention of the provisions of Article 60;
when the Designated Guarantee Agency contravenes an amelioration order under the preceding article;
前条の規定による改善命令に違反したとき。
When the Designated Guarantee Agency fails to follow instructions under the preceding paragraph;
前項の規定による指示に従わなかつたとき。
when the Designated Guarantee Agency contravenes a disposition of the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism based on the provisions of this Act.
この法律の規定に基づく国土交通大臣の処分に違反したとき。
If the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism intends to issue necessary instructions pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or an order to suspend the Earnest Money Guarantee Business in whole or in part pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, said minister must hold a hearing irrespective of the classification of procedures for stating opinions under Article 13, paragraph (1), of the Administrative Procedures Act.
国土交通大臣は、第一項の規定により必要な指示をし、又は前項の規定により手付金等保証事業の全部若しくは一部の停止を命じようとするときは、行政手続法第十三条第一項の規定による意見陳述のための手続の区分にかかわらず、聴聞を行わなければならない。
The provisions of Article 16-15, paragraphs (3) through (5), is to apply mutatis mutandis to any hearing that pertains to a disposition under paragraph (1) or (2).
第十六条の十五第三項から第五項までの規定は、第一項又は第二項の規定による処分に係る聴聞について準用する。
Article 63Submission of a business report
第六十三条（事業報告書等の提出）
A Designated Guarantee Agency must, prior to the commencement of each business year, prepare a business plan in which revenue and expenditure estimates and other matters as specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism are stated and submit it to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
指定保証機関は、毎事業年度開始前に、収支の見積りその他国土交通省令で定める事項を記載した事業計画書を作成し、国土交通大臣に提出しなければならない。
If a Designated Guarantee Agency changes a matter as stated in a business plan, it must, without delay, provide a notification of the fact thereof to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
指定保証機関は、事業計画書に記載した事項を変更したときは、遅滞なく、その旨を国土交通大臣に届け出なければならない。
A Designated Guarantee Agency must, for each business year, prepare a business report according to a format as specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and submit it to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism within three months after the end of each business year.
指定保証機関は、事業年度ごとに、国土交通省令で定める様式による事業報告書を作成し、毎事業年度経過後三月以内に、国土交通大臣に提出しなければならない。
Article 63-2Reports and inspections
第六十三条の二（報告及び検査）
If the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism deems it necessary to secure the proper operations of an Earnest Money Guarantee Business, said minister may issue an order to a Designated Guarantee Agency to have a report or materials concerning the operations thereof submitted, or have said ministers officials enter the location where the operations thereof are carried out and inspect the status of operations or properties or the books, documents, and other materials and objects relating to operations.
An official conducting an on-site inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must carry personal identification and present said identification if requested to do so by a concerned person.
前項の規定により立入検査をする職員は、その身分を示す証明書を携帯し、関係人の請求があつたときは、これを提示しなければならない。
The authority to conduct an on-site inspection under paragraph (1) must not be interpreted as having been accorded for the purpose of a criminal investigation.
第一項の規定による立入検査の権限は、犯罪捜査のために認められたものと解してはならない。
Section 4 Designated Custodian
第四節 指定保管機関
第六十三条の三（指定等）
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。
Article 63-4Changing a statement of business procedures
第六十三条の四（事業方法書の変更）
If a Designated Custodian intends to change a statement of business procedures as provided for in Article 51, paragraph (3), item (i), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding article, the Designated Custodian must obtain the approval of the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
指定保管機関は、前条第二項において準用する第五十一条第三項第一号の事業方法書を変更しようとするときは、国土交通大臣の認可を受けなければならない。
Article 63-5Retention of trust money
第六十三条の五（寄託金保管簿）
A Designated Custodian must, as specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, prepare a trust money safekeeping book, state therein matters as specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and retain said book.
指定保管機関は、国土交通省令で定めるところにより、寄託金保管簿を備え、国土交通省令で定める事項を記載し、これを保存しなければならない。
Article 64Rescission of designation
第六十四条（指定の取消し等）
If, in addition to a case in which a Designation is rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (1), or Article 62, paragraph (2), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 63-3, paragraph (2), a Designated Custodian falls under either of the following items, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may rescind the Designation of said Designated Custodian or order said Designated Custodian to suspend its Earnest Money Safekeeping Business in whole or in part for a prescribed period not longer than six months:
when the Designated Custodian engages in an Earnest Money Safekeeping Business without complying with a statement of business procedures as provided for in Article 51, paragraph (3), item (i), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 63-3, paragraph (2) (including that which is approved under Article 63-4; the same is to apply in Article 82);
第六十三条の三第二項において準用する第五十一条第三項第一号の事業方法書（第六十三条の四の規定による認可を受けたものを含む。第八十二条において同じ。）によらないで手付金等保管事業を営んだとき。
when the Designated Custodian, in contravention of the provisions of the preceding article, fails to prepare a trust money safekeeping book, fails to state matters as prescribed in the same article, makes a false statement in said trust money safekeeping book, or fails to retain said trust money safekeeping book.
If the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism intends to order the suspension of an Earnest Money Safekeeping Business in whole or in part pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, said minister must hold a hearing irrespective of the classification of procedures for stating opinions under Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Procedures Act.
国土交通大臣は、前項の規定により手付金等保管事業の全部又は一部の停止を命じようとするときは、行政手続法第十三条第一項の規定による意見陳述のための手続の区分にかかわらず、聴聞を行わなければならない。
The provisions of Article 16-15, paragraphs (3) through (5), does apply mutatis mutandis to any hearing that pertains to a disposition under paragraph (1).
第十六条の十五第三項から第五項までの規定は、第一項の規定による処分に係る聴聞について準用する。