Chapter VII Penal Provisions
第七章 罰則
第七十六条
If a person fails to make a report under Article 71 (excluding paragraph (5)), or makes a false report, the person who committed the violation is punished by a fine of not more than 300,000 yen.
If a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or person, commits a violation prescribed in the preceding paragraph in connection with the business of that corporation or person, in addition to the offender being punished, the fine prescribed in that paragraph is also imposed on that corporation or person.
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.