Article 65Instructions and the suspension of operations
第六十五条（指示及び業務の停止）
If a Real Estate Broker to whom the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a prefectural governor has granted a license (including approval as provided for in Article 50-2, paragraph (1); the same applies in the following paragraph) falls under any of the following items or contravenes a provision of this Act; Article 11, paragraph (1) or (6); Article 12, paragraph (1); Article 13; or Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Act on Assurance of Performance of Specified Housing Defect Warranty (Act No. 66 of 2007; referred to hereinafter in this article as the "Performance Assurance Act"); or Article 7, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 8, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Performance Assurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis by the reading of terms under Article 16 of the Performance Assurance Act, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or said prefectural governor may issue necessary instructions to said Real Estate Broker:
when damages are caused, or there is a significant risk that damages will be caused to a person concerned with transactions in connection with operations;
業務に関し取引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 an act impeding the fairness of transactions is committed, or there is a significant risk that the fairness of transactions will be impeded in connection with operations;
業務に関し取引の公正を害する行為をしたとき又は取引の公正を害するおそれが大であるとき。
when the Real Estate Broker is deemed inappropriate as a Real Estate Broker for having contravened another law or other regulations in connection with operations (excluding the Performance Assurance Act or an order based thereon);
when there is a reason that is attributable to the Real Estate Broker that can account for the fact that a real estate transaction specialist is subject to disposition under Article 68 or 68-2, paragraph (1).
宅地建物取引士が、第六十八条又は第六十八条の二第一項の規定による処分を受けた場合において、宅地建物取引業者の責めに帰すべき理由があるとき。
If a Real Estate Broker to whom the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a prefectural governor has granted a license that falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or said prefectural governor may order said Real Estate Broker to suspend its operations in whole or in part for a prescribed period not longer than one year:
国土交通大臣又は都道府県知事は、その免許を受けた宅地建物取引業者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合においては、当該宅地建物取引業者に対し、一年以内の期間を定めて、その業務の全部又は一部の停止を命ずることができる。
when the Real Estate Broker falls under item (i) or (ii) of the preceding paragraph (limited to that which pertains to Entrustment-Based Agency Services for Transactions, etc. as carried out by an Approved Real Estate Broker);
前項第一号又は第二号に該当するとき（認可宅地建物取引業者の行う取引一任代理等に係るものに限る。）。
when the Real Estate Broker falls under item (iii) or (iv) of the preceding paragraph;
when the Real Estate Broker contravenes the provisions of Article 13; Article 25, paragraph (5) (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 26, paragraph (2)); Article 28, paragraph (1); Article 31-3, paragraph (3); Article 32; Article 33-2; Article 34; Article 34-2, paragraph (1) or (2) (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 34-3); any of Article 35, paragraphs (1) through (3); Article 36; Article 37, paragraph (1) or (2); Article 41, paragraph (1); Article 41-2, paragraph (1); any of Articles 43 through 45; Article 46, paragraph (2); Article 47; Article 47-2; Article 48, paragraph (1) or (3); Article 64-9, paragraph (2); Article 64-10, paragraph (2); Article 64-12, paragraph (4); the first sentence of Article 64-15 or the first sentence of Article 64-23; Article 11, paragraph (1) or Article 13 of the Performance Assurance Act; or Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Performance Assurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis by the reading of terms under Article 16 of the Performance Assurance Act;
第十三条、第二十五条第五項（第二十六条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）、第二十八条第一項、第三十一条の三第三項、第三十二条、第三十三条の二、第三十四条、第三十四条の二第一項若しくは第二項（第三十四条の三において準用する場合を含む。）、第三十五条第一項から第三項まで、第三十六条、第三十七条第一項若しくは第二項、第四十一条第一項、第四十一条の二第一項、第四十三条から第四十五条まで、第四十六条第二項、第四十七条、第四十七条の二、第四十八条第一項若しくは第三項、第六十四条の九第二項、第六十四条の十第二項、第六十四条の十二第四項、第六十四条の十五前段若しくは第六十四条の二十三前段の規定又は履行確保法第十一条第一項、第十三条若しくは履行確保法第十六条において読み替えて準用する履行確保法第七条第一項の規定に違反したとき。
when the Real Estate Broker fails to follow instructions under the preceding paragraph or the following paragraph;
when the Real Estate Broker contravenes a disposition of the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a prefectural governor based on the provisions of this Act;
この法律の規定に基づく国土交通大臣又は都道府県知事の処分に違反したとき。
in addition to cases as prescribed in the preceding three items, when the Real Estate Broker commits a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act in connection with the Real Estate Brokerage;
when, in a case in which the Real Estate Broker is a minor lacking the same capacity to act as an adult person in connection with a business, the legal agent thereof (including an officer of a legal agent where said legal agent constitutes a corporation) has committed a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act in connection with the Real Estate Brokerage within five years prior to the intended time at which operations are to be suspended;
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ある場合において、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。）が業務の停止をしようとするとき以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とき。
when, in a case in which the Real Estate Broker is a corporation, an officer thereof or an employee thereof as specified by Cabinet Order constituting a person who has committed a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act in connection with the Real Estate Brokerage within five years prior to the intended time at which operations are to be suspended has come to belong thereto;
法人である場合において、その役員又は政令で定める使用人のうちに業務の停止をしようとするとき以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があるに至つたとき。
when, in a case in which the Real Estate Broker is an individual, an employee thereof as specified by Cabinet Order constituting a person who has committed a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act in connection with the Real Estate Brokerage within five years prior to the intended time at which operations are to be suspended has come to belong thereto.
個人である場合において、政令で定める使用人のうちに業務の停止をしようとするとき以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があるに至つたとき。
A prefectural governor may, if a Real Estate Broker to whom the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or another prefectural governor has granted a license and who engages in operations within a zone of said prefecture, in connection with operations within a zone of said prefecture, falls under any of the items of paragraph (1) or contravenes a provision of this Act; Article 11, paragraph (1) or (6); Article 12, paragraph (1); Article 13; or Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Performance Assurance Act; or Article 7, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 8, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Performance Assurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis by the reading of terms under Article 16 of the Performance Assurance Act, issue necessary instructions to said Real Estate Broker.
A prefectural governor may, if a Real Estate Broker to whom the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or another prefectural governor has granted a license and who engages in operations within a zone of said prefecture, in connection with operations within a zone of said prefecture, falls under any of the following items, order said Real Estate Broker to suspend its operations in whole or in part for a prescribed period not longer than one year:
都道府県知事は、国土交通大臣又は他の都道府県知事の免許を受けた宅地建物取引業者で当該都道府県の区域内において業務を行うものが、当該都道府県の区域内における業務に関し、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合においては、当該宅地建物取引業者に対し、一年以内の期間を定めて、その業務の全部又は一部の停止を命ずることができる。
when the Real Estate Broker falls under paragraph (1), item (iii) or (iv);
when the Real Estate Broker contravenes a provision of Article 13; Article 31-3, paragraph (3) (excluding parts pertaining to an office); Article 32; Article 33-2; Article 34; Article 34-2, paragraph (1) or (2) (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 34-3); any of Article 35, paragraphs (1) through (3); Article 36; Article 37, paragraph (1) or (2); Article 41, paragraph (1); Article 41-2, paragraph (1); any of Articles 43 through 45; Article 46, paragraph (2); Article 47; Article 47-2; or Article 48, paragraph (1) or (3);
第十三条、第三十一条の三第三項（事務所に係る部分を除く。）、第三十二条、第三十三条の二、第三十四条、第三十四条の二第一項若しくは第二項（第三十四条の三において準用する場合を含む。）、第三十五条第一項から第三項まで、第三十六条、第三十七条第一項若しくは第二項、第四十一条第一項、第四十一条の二第一項、第四十三条から第四十五条まで、第四十六条第二項、第四十七条、第四十七条の二又は第四十八条第一項若しくは第三項の規定に違反したとき。
when the Real Estate Broker fails to follow instructions under paragraph (1) or the preceding paragraph;
when the Real Estate Broker contravenes a disposition of the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a prefectural governor based on the provisions of this Act;
この法律の規定に基づく国土交通大臣又は都道府県知事の処分に違反したとき。
in addition to cases as prescribed in the preceding three items, when the Real Estate Broker commits a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act.
前三号に規定する場合のほか、不正又は著しく不当な行為をしたとき。
Article 66Rescission of license
第六十六条（免許の取消し）
If a Real Estate Broker to whom the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a prefectural governor has granted a license that falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or said prefectural governor must rescind said license:
国土交通大臣又は都道府県知事は、その免許を受けた宅地建物取引業者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合においては、当該免許を取り消さなければならない。
when the Real Estate Broker comes to fall under any of Article 5, paragraph (1), item (i), items (v) through (vii), item (x), or item (xiv);
第五条第一項第一号、第五号から第七号まで、第十号又は第十四号のいずれかに該当するに至つたとき。
when, in a case in which the Real Estate Broker is a minor lacking the same capacity to act as an adult person in connection with business, the legal agent thereof (including an officer of a legal agent where said legal agent constitutes a corporation) comes to fall under any of Article 5, paragraph (1), items (i) through (vii) or item (x);
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ある場合において、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。）が第五条第一項第一号から第七号まで又は第十号のいずれかに該当するに至つたとき。
when, in a case in which the Real Estate Broker is a corporation, an officer thereof or an employee thereof as specified by Cabinet Order constituting a person who falls under any of Article 5, paragraph (1), items (i) through (vii) or item (x), has come to belong thereto;
法人である場合において、その役員又は政令で定める使用人のうちに第五条第一項第一号から第七号まで又は第十号のいずれかに該当する者があるに至つたとき。
when, in a case in which the Real Estate Broker is an individual, an employee thereof as specified by Cabinet Order constituting a person who falls under any of Article 5, paragraph (1), items (i) through (vii) or item (x), has come to belong thereto;
個人である場合において、政令で定める使用人のうちに第五条第一項第一号から第七号まで又は第十号のいずれかに該当する者があるに至つたとき。
when, in a case falling under any of the items of Article 7, paragraph (1), it is determined that the Real Estate Broker has not obtained a license as provided for in Article 3, paragraph (1);
when the Real Estate Broker has not commenced a business within one year of obtaining a license, or when business has been suspended continuously for one year or longer;
免許を受けてから一年以内に事業を開始せず、又は引き続いて一年以上事業を休止したとき。
when no notification under Article 11, paragraph (1), has been provided and it is determined that the Real Estate Broker falls under any of items (iii) through (v) of the same paragraph;
第十一条第一項の規定による届出がなくて同項第三号から第五号までのいずれかに該当する事実が判明したとき。
when the Real Estate Broker obtains a license as provided for in Article 3, paragraph (1), by unlawful means;
不正の手段により第三条第一項の免許を受けたとき。
when the Real Estate Broker falls under any of the items of paragraph (2) of the preceding article under particularly serious circumstances or when the Real Estate Broker contravenes a disposition consisting of the suspension of operations under paragraph (2) or (4) of the same article.
If a Real Estate Broker to whom the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a prefectural governor has granted a license which breaches a condition imposed pursuant to the provisions of Article 3-2, paragraph (1), the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or said prefectural governor may rescind the license of said Real Estate Broker.
第六十七条
If the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a prefectural governor is unable to ascertain the location of a business office of a Real Estate Broker to whom the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or said prefectural governor has granted a license or the location of a Real Estate Broker to whom the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or said prefectural governor has granted a license (if the Real Estate Broker is a corporation, the location of an officer thereof); the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or said prefectural governor may, if no communications is received from said Real Estate Broker even after the passage of thirty days from the date of the public notice of said fact through the Official Gazette or a bulletin of said prefecture, rescind the license of said Real Estate Broker.
The provisions of Chapter III of the Administrative Procedures Act do not apply to a disposition under the preceding paragraph.
前項の規定による処分については、行政手続法第三章の規定は、適用しない。
Article 67-2Rescission of approval
第六十七条の二（認可の取消し等）
If an Approved Real Estate Broker falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may rescind the approval thereof:
国土交通大臣は、認可宅地建物取引業者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合においては、当該認可を取り消すことができる。
when the Approved Real Estate Broker fails to conclude an agreement falling under any of the items of Article 50-2, paragraph (1), within one year after obtaining said approval or fails to conclude an agreement falling under any of the items of the same paragraph over a continuous period of one year or longer;
when the Approved Real Estate Broker obtains an approval as provided for in Article 50-2, paragraph (1), by unlawful means;
不正の手段により第五十条の二第一項の認可を受けたとき。
when the Approved Real Estate Broker falls under any of the items of Article 65, paragraph (2), under particularly serious circumstances or when the Approved Real Estate Broker contravenes a disposition consisting of the suspension of operations under the same paragraph.
If an Approved Real Estate Broker breaches a condition imposed pursuant to the provisions of Article 50-2-2, paragraph (1), the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may rescind the approval pertaining to said Approved Real Estate Broker.
国土交通大臣は、認可宅地建物取引業者が第五十条の二の二第一項の規定により付された条件に違反したときは、当該認可宅地建物取引業者に係る認可を取り消すことができる。
If a license is not renewed upon the expiration of the period of validity as provided for in Article 3, paragraph (2), a license ceases to be effective pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (2), or an Approved Real Estate Broker falls under paragraph (1), item (ii) of the same article or is subject to a license rescission pursuant to the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (7); Article 66; or Article 67, paragraph (1); the approval pertaining to said Approved Real Estate Broker ceases to be effective.