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light motor vehicle inspection work

軽自動車の検査事務(けいじどうしゃのけんさじむ)

The work of inspecting motor vehicles under Chapter V that concerns light motor vehicles (軽自動車), which the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) has the Light Motor Vehicle Inspection Organization (軽自動車検査協会) carry out once it is established, apart from the work under Article 61-2 and Article 63, paragraph (1) and the management of technical information for examination (審査用技術情報管理事務).

category IV EPI insured period

第四号厚生年金被保険者期間(だいよんごうこうせいねんきんひほけんしゃきかん)

The period during which a person was a category IV insured (第四号厚生年金被保険者): an insured under Employees' Pension Insurance (厚生年金保険) who is a member of the mutual aid system for private school teachers and staff (私立学校教職員共済制度) under the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act (Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (iv)).

Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc.

要介護者等(ようかいごしゃとう)

A person requiring long-term care (要介護者) or a person requiring support (要支援者).

employer

事業者(じぎょうしゃ)

In Article 46, an employer (事業者) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Pneumoconiosis Act — an employer as defined in the Industrial Safety and Health Act whose business involves dusty tasks (粉じん作業); for the provisions of the Pneumoconiosis Act this Article lists, the person running a client's business (派遣先の事業) that involves such tasks is treated as the employer employing the assigned workers (派遣中の労働者) who regularly do, or have done, dusty tasks there.

disposition, etc.

処分等(しょぶんとう)

The acts of a public prosecutor (検察官) that Article 26, paragraph (1) lets a person dissatisfied with them challenge by a request for examination (審査の申立て) to the head of the public prosecutors office (検察庁の長): a decision on erasure, etc. (消去等決定), an erasure order (消去命令), a decision not to permit copying (複写不許可決定) or a provisional decision under Article 12-2; retention (領置) of a seized article under Article 12 or Article 13, paragraph (3) or (7); and any other act of a public prosecutor in the procedures of Chapter IV that a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) specifies.

criminal tax case

犯則事件(はんそくじけん)

A case of a suspected offence under the national tax laws, which officials of the National Tax Agency, Regional Taxation Bureaus and tax offices may investigate — by questioning suspects and witnesses and inspecting or retaining items — under the section of this Act beginning at Article 131.

specified equipment

特定装置(とくていそうち)

Equipment listed in Article 41, paragraph (1), of a kind a Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Order (国土交通省令) specifies, whose models (型式) the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) designates on application under Article 75-3.

proceeds of realization, etc.

換価代金等(かんかだいきんとう)

The money listed in Article 128, paragraph 1, items 1 and 2 — the sale proceeds of seized property, etc. (差押財産等), and money received from third-party debtors, etc. (第三債務者等) through the seizure of securities, claims or incorporeal property, etc. (無体財産権等) — which is distributed to the national taxes and other claims Article 129 lists.

request for Reassessment

更正の請求(こうせいのせいきゅう)

A request to the tax office director (税務署長) under Article 23, paragraph (1) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes, by a person who has filed a tax return, to reassess (更正) the tax base or tax amount it stated, because an error or a failure to follow the tax laws made the tax payable too high, or a net loss or refund too low or left it out.

identity confirmation information

本人確認情報(ほんにんかくにんじょうほう)

In Articles 30-6 and 30-7 and Article 34, paragraph (2), identity confirmation information as defined in Article 30-6, paragraph (1) of the Residential Basic Book Act: the name and its kana reading, date of birth, sex, address, Individual Number (個人番号) and resident record code (住民票コード) on a person's certificate of residence (住民票), or on one that has been deleted, together with details of the entries that Cabinet Order (政令) sets — the information a municipal mayor passes to the prefectural governor.

order for temporary administration

保全管理命令(ほぜんかんりめいれい)

An order the court may make under Article 91, paragraph (1), after a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings against a debtor that is a corporation and until it decides on the petition, placing the debtor's property under the administration of a temporary administrator (保全管理人).

Foreign Driving Permit

国外運転免許証(こくがいうんてんめんきょしょう)

A driving permit under Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Convention on Road Traffic (道路交通に関する条約) that a public safety commission (公安委員会) issues to a holder of a Japanese driving license, other than a special small motor vehicle, motorized bicycle or provisional license, for the vehicles in Annex 10 of the Convention that correspond to those the license covers.

family register supplement identity confirmation information

附票本人確認情報(ふひょうほんにんかくにんじょうほう)

In Articles 30-12-4 and 30-12-5 and Article 34, paragraph (3), family register supplement identity confirmation information as defined in Article 30-41, paragraph (1) of the Residential Basic Book Act: the name and its kana reading, address (or, for a person who has moved out of Japan, that fact), date of birth, sex and resident record code (住民票コード) on a family register supplement (戸籍の附票), or on one that has been deleted, together with details of the entries that Cabinet Order (政令) sets — the information a municipal mayor passes to the prefectural governor.

public notice of the commencement of a tender offer

公開買付開始公告(こうかいかいつけかいしこうこく)

In Section 1 of Chapter 2-2, the public notice that Article 27-3, paragraph (1) requires on the commencement of a tender offer, stating its purpose, purchase price, the number of share certificates, etc. to be bought, the purchase period and other matters a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies.

registered organization cooperating in support of disaster victims

登録被災者援護協力団体(とうろくひさいしゃえんごきょうりょくだんたい)

An organization cooperating in support of disaster victims (被災者援護協力団体), a corporation or similar body that helps the State and local governments support disaster victims through work such as running shelters or providing meals, that is registered with the Prime Minister under Article 33-2, paragraph (1).

specified platform operator

特定プラットフォーム事業者(とくていぷらっとふぉーむじぎょうしゃ)

In Article 15-2, a platform operator (プラットフォーム事業者) designated by the Commissioner of the National Tax Agency (国税庁長官) under paragraph (2) of that Article; where a foreign business operator's (国外事業者) telecommunications services (電気通信利用役務の提供) in Japan, other than those ordinarily received only by businesses, are supplied through its digital platform and paid for through it, it is treated as having supplied them.

exclusively-owned area

専有部分(せんゆうぶぶん)

An exclusively-owned area as Article 2, paragraph 3 of the Act on Building Unit Ownership defines it: a part of a building that is the subject of unit ownership (区分所有権).

notification

届出(とどけで)

From Article 89 on, other than in Article 89-2, a notification under Article 88, paragraphs (1) to (3) of an employer's plan to install or move machinery or other equipment of a kind a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies or alter its main structural parts, or to start construction or other work of a kind that Order specifies.

application information

申請情報(しんせいじょうほう)

The information a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as needed to apply for a registration, such as the details identifying the real property, the applicant's name and the purpose of the registration, which the applicant must provide to the registry office (登記所) online or in writing.

transferred asset

譲渡資産(じょうとしさん)

In Articles 36-2 and 36-3, a house in Japan, or land or a right over land, that an individual has owned for more than ten years as of 1 January of the year of transfer: the home the individual has lived in for ten years or more, such a home no longer lived in (if transferred within about three years), its site, or the site of such a home destroyed by a disaster (if transferred within about three years).