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written petition

申立書(もうしたてしょ)

The written petition for a protection order (保護命令): for a stay-away order (接近禁止命令) or an order under Article 10, paragraphs (2) to (4) under Article 12, paragraph (1), or for an eviction order (退去等命令) under Article 12, paragraph (2).

notification date

届出日(とどけでび)

In the subsection on special financial instruments business operators, the day a financial instruments business operator gave notice under Article 57-2, paragraph (1) that its total assets had come to exceed the threshold amount a Cabinet Order (政令) sets.

demand for filing an action

提訴請求(ていそせいきゅう)

A former shareholder's demand, under Article 847-2, that a company now wholly owned by another company sue its officers to enforce their liability; if the company does not sue within 60 days, the former shareholder may sue on its behalf.

certified services

認定業務(にんていぎょうむ)

In Section 5 of Chapter IV and in Chapter VI, the work for which a certified personal information protection organization (認定個人情報保護団体) is certified.

door-to-door sales

訪問販売(ほうもんはんばい)

A sale of goods (商品) or specified rights (特定権利), or provision of services, by a seller or service provider under a contract offered or made away from its business office or similar place (営業所等), or made at such a place with a specified customer (特定顧客) who was stopped elsewhere and brought there or drawn in by another method a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

substitute leave

代替休暇(だいたいきゅうか)

Paid time off an employer may give instead of the higher premium owed for overtime beyond 60 hours a month.

base fiscal year

基準年度(きじゅんねんど)

The fiscal year containing 1 April of the third year after the year in which the fiscal year a recipient turns 65 begins; from it on, the recipient's revision rate (改定率) is revised by the price change rate (物価変動率), or by the nominal net wage change rate (名目手取り賃金変動率) where that is lower (Article 27-3).

prepaid taxes

予納税額(よのうぜいがく)

Income tax already paid in advance for the year — the tax prepayments and similar amounts listed in Article 120, paragraph (2) — whose unused part a reassessment or similar decision increases, the increase being refunded by the district tax office director (税務署長).

covered person

被共済者(ひきょうさいしゃ)

In Article 18-4, a person entitled to receive retirement benefits under a retirement allowance mutual aid contract (退職金共済契約) with a specified retirement allowance mutual aid organization (特定退職金共済団体), as Article 73, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Order for Enforcement of the Income Tax Act (Cabinet Order No. 96 of 1965) defines it.

delivery order

引渡命令(ひきわたしめいれい)

An order under the main clause of Article 83, paragraph (1) (applied to auctions to enforce a security interest by Article 188) in which the enforcement court (執行裁判所), on the petition of a buyer who has paid the price, orders the debtor or a possessor of the immovable property to deliver it to the buyer.

anonymity ruling

秘匿決定(ひとくけってい)

In Chapter VIII of Part I (concealing parties' addresses and identifying information), a ruling under Article 133, paragraph (1) to keep the address (住所) or name (氏名) of a person seeking anonymity (秘匿対象者) confidential from the parties.

applicable corporation

適用法人(てきようほうじん)

In Article 135, a domestic corporation to which Article 135(1) applied — the special refund of corporation tax after a reassessment of a return overstated through fictitious accounting (仮装経理) — or, where it was dissolved by a qualified merger, the acquiring corporation in that merger.

designated period

指定期間(していきかん)

The designated period referred to in Article 64-2, paragraph (1) — or, where the special account was taken over during the year or in other cases a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, the period in paragraph (2) or another period it sets — within which replacement assets (代替資産) are acquired with the compensation.

assessment and determination

賦課決定(ふかけってい)

An assessment and determination as defined in Article 32(5) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes: a decision under Article 32(1) or (2) of that Act by which the district tax office director fixes, or later changes, the tax base and the tax payable for a national tax that the tax office itself assesses, such as an additional tax (加算税).

Council, etc.

審議会等(しんぎかいとう)

The commissions and other bodies listed in Article 9, paragraph (1), the assemblies of local governments (地方公共団体の議会), and bodies a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as similar to them, whose deliberation another Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (or, for a disposition based on a local ordinance (条例), the ordinance) may require or allow before a disposition (処分) is made.

committees or other councils

委員会等(いいんかいとう)

A commission (委員会) provided for in Article 49, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office or in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Government Organization Act, or a body (機関) provided for in Article 37 or 54 of the Act for Establishment of the Cabinet Office or in Article 8 of the National Government Organization Act.

fitness test

適性試験(てきせいしけん)

In Article 87, paragraph (6), Article 90, paragraph (1) and Article 95-6, paragraph (1), the part of the driver's license test (運転免許試験) on the point in Article 97, paragraph (1), item (i): the fitness needed to drive motor vehicles and motorized bicycles (自動車等).

approved ministry or agency

承認省庁(しょうにんしょうちょう)

A ministry or agency (省庁) that, on the application of its appointing authority (任命権者) and those of its external bureaus and other organizations (外局等), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved under Article 41 as able to promote the hiring of qualifying disabled employees as one; the employees of those bodies then count as its own when Article 38, paragraph (1) and Article 40 apply.

designated corporation

指定法人(していほうじん)

A general incorporated association or general incorporated foundation that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates under Article 45, paragraph (6) of the National Health Insurance Act as meeting the requirements a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets for its review organization and as able to do the work properly and reliably, to which a Federation of National Health Insurance Associations (国保連合会) may entrust the review of the medical bills the Minister specifies; under Article 117 it also runs the special joint high medical care cost project (特別高額医療費共同事業).

design review or post-manufacturing inspection

設計審査等(せっけいしんさとう)

A design review (設計審査) or a post-manufacturing inspection (製造時等検査) of specified machinery (特定機械等): the work a registered agency for design reviews and post-manufacturing inspections is registered to do.