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security interest

担保権(たんぽけん)

A special statutory lien, pledge, mortgage or right of retention over property of a stock company in special liquidation (Article 522, paragraph (2)), which the company may have converted into money under the Civil Enforcement Act or other laws on compulsory execution.

Amending Act

改正法(かいせいほう)

Short name for the Act Partially Amending the Health Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 83 of 2006).

Immigration Control Act

入管法(にゅうかんほう)

Short name for the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, used in the wording this paragraph substitutes into the Administrative Complaint Review Act when that Act is applied to a request for review (審査請求) of a refugee or complementary protection decision under Article 61-2-12, paragraph (1).

Special Act

特例法(とくれいほう)

Short name for the Special Act on the Immigration Control of, inter alia, those who have lost Japanese Nationality pursuant to the Treaty of Peace with Japan (Act No. 71 of 1991).

Amusement Business Act

風営法(ふうえいほう)

Abolition Act

廃止法(はいしほう)

In Article 4, paragraph (1), item (xviii), short name for Act No. 1 of 2006, the Act that abolished the law on mutual aid pensions for members of the Diet (国会議員互助年金法, Act No. 70 of 1958).

merger, etc.

合併等(がっぺいとう)

In Article 54-6, a merger, a company split or another act an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) specifies, carried out under the Companies Act or another Act by the employer of a place of business running a corporate-type pension plan (実施事業所).

nursing care for daily life

生活介護(せいかつかいご)

Care as defined in Article 5(7) of the Act on Providing Comprehensive Support for the Daily Life and Life in Society of Persons with Disabilities: help with bathing, toileting or eating, opportunities for creative or productive activities, and other services a Ministerial Order (主務省令) specifies, given mainly in the daytime at a facility designed to support persons with disabilities (障害者支援施設) or another facility such an Order specifies, to persons with disabilities who need constant care and whom such an Order specifies.

postal items, etc.

郵便物等(ゆうびんぶつとう)

In Article 860-3, mail (郵便物) or correspondence items (信書便物) — letters, with their packaging and anything else enclosed, delivered by a correspondence delivery service under the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators — addressed to an adult ward (成年被後見人), which the family court may ask the delivery business to deliver to the adult guardian (成年後見人) instead.

attached documents

添付書類(てんぷしょるい)

In Article 75-4, paragraphs (1) and (3), the documents that this Act, orders under it, or Article 18, paragraph (3) or Article 19, paragraph (4) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes require to be attached to a specified corporation's (特定法人) interim return, final return or amended return for corporation tax on income.

partnership business

組合事業(くみあいじぎょう)

In Article 27-2, the business carried on under a limited liability business partnership agreement (有限責任事業組合契約) under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, whose losses an individual partner may count as necessary expenses only up to an amount based on their contribution.

public interest work

公益事務(こうえきじむ)

In Article 40, paragraphs (7), (8), (9) and (12), public interest work as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act on Public Interest Trusts.

covered corporation

対象法人(たいしょうほうじん)

In Article 66-13(1) and (15), a corporation filing a blue return (青色申告書) that a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) sets as one carrying on specified business activities (特定事業活動) jointly with new business pioneers (新事業開拓事業者) under the Act on Strengthening Industrial Competitiveness (産業競争力強化法).

SDF or USAF

自衛隊等(じえいたいとう)

The Self-Defense Forces (自衛隊) or the specified United States armed forces (特定合衆国軍隊) defined in Article 2, item (vi) of the Act Concerning Measures Implemented by Japan in Connection with Actions of the United States Armed Forces and Others in Armed Attack Situations, etc. , and Survival-Threatening Situations (Act No. 113 of 2004).

competent ministers

主務大臣(しゅむだいじん)

In Article 2-2 and Article 2-3, paragraph (5), the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣), the National Public Safety Commission (国家公安委員会), the Minister of Justice (法務大臣) and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣), who must together set the basic policy (基本方針) on preventing spousal violence and protecting victims.

Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures

番号利用法(ばんごうりようほう)

Short name for the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (Act No. 27 of 2013).

transfer levy amount, etc.

譲渡割額等(じょうとわりがくとう)

The confirmed consumption tax amount (確定消費税額), meaning the consumption tax as filed, amended, reassessed or determined under the consumption tax laws, or the transfer levy of the local consumption tax (譲渡割) computed on it, to which the prefectural governor corrects a return in a reassessment (更正) under Article 72-93, paragraph 1.

person seeking anonymity

秘匿対象者(ひとくたいしょうしゃ)

In Article 133 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the person who makes a petition or other filing, or that person's legal representative, whose address or name the court may order kept confidential; Article 35, paragraph (2) reads that Article for this Act's court cases with the photographed persons, etc. (撮影対象者等) in that place.

Public Interest Authorization Act

公益認定法(こうえきにんていほう)

In Article 40, paragraphs (8) and (16), short name for the Act on Authorization of Public Interest Incorporated Associations and Public Interest Incorporated Foundations (Act No. 49 of 2006).