Article 129Provisional Payments

②A person who has made a provisional payment under the preceding paragraph may be issued a notice of findings as under the first sentence of Article 127, paragraph (1) by public notice, pursuant to Cabinet Order.

③If a person who has made a provisional payment under paragraph (1) is issued a notice of findings as under the first sentence of Article 127, paragraph (1) in connection with the notice to appear in respect of which the person has made the provisional payment, that person is deemed to be a person who has paid the penalty detailed in the notice of findings pursuant to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and the person's provisional payment of an amount equivalent to that penalty is deemed to be the payment of the penalty under that paragraph.

④Having issued a notice of findings as under the first sentence of Article 127, paragraph (2) to a person who has made a provisional payment under paragraph (1), the chief of the prefectural police must promptly return an amount of money equivalent to the provisional payment to that person.