Article 104-4Revocation by Application

①A licensee may apply to the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the domicile thereof for the revocation of a license. Notwithstanding Article 89, paragraph (1) and Article 90-2, paragraph (1), in such a case, the licensee may also request to be issued another type of license when the license subject to the application is revoked (but only the type of license that Cabinet Order prescribes for each type of license revoked).

②A public safety commission to which a person has applied under the preceding paragraph must revoke the license subject to the application, pursuant to Cabinet Order.

③A public safety commission that has revoked a license pursuant to the preceding paragraph may grant the license subject to the application to the person who made the application under paragraph (1), when it has received from that person the return of the license pertaining to that license pursuant to Article 106-3, paragraph (1), item (i), or has carried out the deletion of the license information record of that person pursuant to Article 106-4, paragraph (1), item (i) (or, in the case where the person who made the application under paragraph (1) holds a license (excluding one pertaining to a provisional license; the same applies in the following Article) and an Individual Number Card bearing a license information record, when it has received the return of that license and has carried out the deletion of that license information record).

⑤Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraphs, Cabinet Office Order provides for the necessary particulars regarding the revocation of licenses under paragraph (2).