①A public safety commission may designate, as a designated driving school, a driving school that has made a filing as under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article; that provides instruction in motor vehicle driving skills and knowledge to persons seeking certain types of licenses (limited to those that Cabinet Order prescribes); and that conforms to the following criteria for employees, installations, and the like with respect to instruction, at the application of the person operating or managing the driving school:

②A public safety commission must not grant a designation under the preceding paragraph to a driving school that has filed an application as referred to in that paragraph if it has had its designation revoked pursuant to Article 100 and it has been less than three years since the date of revocation.

①A person managing a designated driving school must appoint a skills evaluator to conduct skills evaluations.

②A person who has not been issued a skills evaluator certificate as referred to in paragraph (4) may not become a skills evaluator.

③To apply the Penal Code and other penal provisions, skills evaluators are deemed to be employees engaged in public service pursuant to laws and regulations.

④A public safety commission issues a skills evaluator certificate to a person falling under both of the following items:

⑤A public safety commission, pursuant to Rules of the National Public Safety Commissions, may order a person who has been issued a skills evaluator certificate as referred to in the preceding paragraph to return that certificate if it finds that one of the following items applies:

⑥Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, Rules of the National Public Safety Commission provide for the necessary particulars in connection with skills evaluator certificates as referred to in paragraph (4).

①The person managing a designated driving school must appoint an instructor to provide instruction in motor vehicle driving skills and knowledge.

②A person who has not been issued an instructor certificate as referred to in paragraph (4) may not become an instructor.

③A person managing a designated driving school must not allow a person other than an instructor to provide instruction in motor vehicle driving skills or knowledge.

④A public safety commission issues an instructor certificate to a person falling under both of the following items:

⑤The provisions of paragraphs (5) and (6) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to instructor certificates. In such a case, the term "skills evaluator" in paragraph (5), item (iii) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "instructor".

If a person managing a designated driving school is notified by a public safety commission that it will conduct training as set forth in Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (ix) for the employees of the designated driving school, that person must have the employees undergo that training.

①A person managing a designated driving school must have a skills evaluator conduct a skills evaluation, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order, for each type of license as prescribed in Article 99, paragraph (1) for persons who have completed instruction in motor vehicle driving skills and knowledge.

②A person managing a designated driving school must not allow a skills evaluator to administer a skills evaluation for a person who has not completed the instruction prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

③A person managing a designated driving school must not allow a person other than a skills evaluator to administer a skills evaluation.

④A skills evaluator must certify that a person who has passed a skills evaluation, has passed a skills evaluation.

⑤Once a skills evaluator has certified that a person has passed a skills evaluation as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the designated driving school may issue a certificate of graduation (meaning a certificate showing that the person has completed instruction at the designated driving school; the same applies hereinafter) or a certificate of completion (meaning a certificate showing that the person has achieved a level of skills and knowledge that would allow the person to drive with a provisional license, as a result of receiving instruction at a designated driving school; the same applies hereinafter) to that person in the format that Cabinet Office Order prescribes,, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order. In such a case, the certificate of graduation or completion must be accompanied by a certificate prepared by the skills evaluator showing that the person whose certificate of graduation or completion it is has passed a skills evaluation, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order.

①A public safety commission may ask a person operating or managing a designated driving school to report or submit materials on the business activities of the designated driving school or have a police official enter the designated driving school to inspect documents and other items or to question relevant persons, but only so far as is necessary to enforce this Section.

②Police officials conducting on-site inspections pursuant to the preceding paragraph must carry identification and present it at the request of a relevant person.

③The authority for an on-site inspection under paragraph (1) must not be construed as authorizing a criminal investigation.

①If a public safety commission finds that a designated driving school no longer conforms to any of the criteria set forth in the items of Article 99, paragraph (1), it may order the person operating or managing the designated driving school to take the necessary measures to ensure that it conforms to that criteria.

②Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, a public safety commission may issue orders that are necessary, from a supervisory perspective, with regard to the business activities of a designated driving school, to the person operating or managing the designated driving school, but only so far as is necessary to enforce this Section.

①If a person managing a designated driving school violates Article 99-3, paragraph (3), Article 99-4, or Article 99-5, paragraph (2) or (3); if a designated driving school issues a certificate of graduation or completion in violation of Article 99-5, paragraph (5); or if a person operating or managing a designated driving school violates an order under the preceding Article, the public safety commission may revoke the designation of the designated driving school, or may prohibit it from issuing certificates of graduation or completion based on the instruction it provides for a period of up to six months that it fixes.

②If a designated driving school subject to measures that prohibit it from issuing certificates of graduation or completion pursuant to the preceding paragraph issues a certificate of graduation or completion in violation of those measures, the public safety commission may revoke its designation or may extend the period during which it is prohibited from issuing certificates of graduation or completion by up to six months.