①If any of the following items applies and there is an urgent need to prevent hazards on roads, the chief of the police station having jurisdiction over the place where the fact occurred may, with regard to the specified automated operation provider concerned, suspend the validity of the permission for specified automated operation until the day on which 30 days have elapsed, counting from the date on which the fact occurred (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "provisional suspension").

②Having made a provisional suspension, the chief of the police station must provide the specified automated operation provider subject to that disposition with an opportunity for explanation within five days, counting from the date on which the disposition was made.

③The chief of the police station who has made a provisional suspension must promptly report the matters that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the public safety commission.

④A provisional suspension loses its effect if the public safety commission that has received a report under the preceding paragraph makes a disposition on the case under Article 75-26, paragraph (1) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article within the period of that provisional suspension.

⑤If a person subject to a provisional suspension has been subject to a suspension of the validity of the permission under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article on the case, the period during which the provisional suspension was in effect is to be counted toward the period of suspension of the validity of that permission.