①Where the place of employment prescribed in Article 4-2, paragraph (1) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph through paragraph (3) and in paragraph (5) as the "place of employment") via which a wage earner prescribed in Article 4-2, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph and paragraph (5) as a "wage earner") is to make the submission of the documents listed in the following items (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph through paragraph (3) as the "submission of an application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc.") meets the requirements specified by Cabinet Order, such as having taken measures that enable it to properly receive the provision, by electronic or magnetic means (meaning a means using an electronic data processing system or any other means using information and communications technology, which is specified by Order of the Ministry of Finance; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), of the matters to be stated (hereinafter referred to in this Article as the "required particulars") in the documents prescribed in those items (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph through paragraph (3) as an "application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc."), the wage earner may, in lieu of the submission of an application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc., provide the place of employment with the required particulars by electronic or magnetic means. In this case, the wage earner must take measures specified by Order of the Ministry of Finance that make the wage earner's name clear, and when the wage earner has taken those measures, the wage earner is deemed to have submitted the application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc. to the place of employment.

②The head of a place of employment listed in each of the following items (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph, the following paragraph, and paragraph (6) as an "entrusting workplace") may, where the office or any other equivalent place of the administrative agent organization (meaning an administrative agent organization prescribed in Article 4-2, paragraph (1) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) pertaining to the entrustment referred to in that item that performs the administrative affairs referred to in that item (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph, the following paragraph, and paragraph (6) as an "administrative agent's office") meets the requirements specified by Cabinet Order, such as having taken measures that enable it to properly receive the provision of required particulars by electronic or magnetic means, provide the administrative agent's office pertaining to the entrustment referred to in that item with the required particulars by electronic or magnetic means, in lieu of the submission of an application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc. (limited to the submission of the documents specified in each of the following items according to the category of place of employment listed in that item). In this case, the head of the entrusting workplace must take measures specified by Order of the Ministry of Finance that make the name of the entrusting workplace clear, and when the head has taken those measures, the head is deemed to have submitted the application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc. to the administrative agent's office.

③The head of a place of employment that has accepted an application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc. (excluding an entrusting workplace; hereinafter referred to in this paragraph and paragraph (6) as a "workplace doing the administrative work") or the head of an administrative agent's office that has accepted an application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc. may, where the business office of the financial institution or other such place prescribed in Article 4-2, paragraph (1) to which the application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc. is to be submitted or via which it is to be submitted meets the requirements specified by Cabinet Order, such as having taken measures that enable it to properly receive the provision of required particulars by electronic or magnetic means, provide the business office of the financial institution or other such place with the required particulars by electronic or magnetic means, in lieu of the submission of an application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc. In this case, the head of the workplace doing the administrative work or the head of the administrative agent's office must take measures specified by Order of the Ministry of Finance that make the name of the workplace doing the administrative work or the administrative agent's office clear, and when the head has taken those measures, the head is deemed to have submitted the application to exempt asset-building savings from taxation, etc. to the business office of the financial institution or other such place.

④With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 4-2, paragraph (6) and paragraph (6) of the preceding Article in the case where the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply, the phrase "when a statement" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "when the matters to be stated in a statement", the phrase "or a statement of change" with "or the matters to be stated in a statement of change", the phrase "has been accepted by" with "have been provided to", and the phrase "the day on which it was accepted" with "the day on which they were provided".

⑤Where a wage earner provides required particulars by electronic or magnetic means pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii) or item (v)), the wage earner may, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, in lieu of submitting, pursuant to the provisions of Article 4-2, paragraph (4) or paragraph (4) of the preceding Article, the document certifying the matters listed in item (iv) of Article 4-2, paragraph (4) prescribed in that paragraph or the document certifying the matters listed in item (iv) of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article prescribed in that paragraph, provide the place of employment with the matters to be stated in those documents by electronic or magnetic means. In this case, the wage earner is deemed to have submitted the statement of tax-exempt asset-building housing savings prescribed in Article 4-2, paragraph (4) or the statement of tax-exempt asset-building pension savings prescribed in paragraph (4) of the preceding Article with those documents attached thereto pursuant to those provisions.

⑥The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis in the case where the head of an entrusting workplace provides required particulars by electronic or magnetic means pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) (limited to the part pertaining to the submission of the documents listed in paragraph (1), item (ii) or item (v)), or where the head of a workplace doing the administrative work or the head of an administrative agent's office provides required particulars by electronic or magnetic means pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) (limited to the part pertaining to the submission of the documents listed in paragraph (1), item (ii) or item (v)).

⑦Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding three paragraphs, necessary matters concerning the application of the provisions of the preceding two Articles and paragraphs (1) through (3) in the case where required particulars are provided by electronic or magnetic means are specified by Cabinet Order.