If a seller or a service provider has violated any of the provisions of Article 11, 12, or 12-3 (excluding paragraph (5)), Article 12-5, Article 12-6, Article 13, paragraph (1), or Article 13-2, or has engaged in any of the conduct listed in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to significantly prejudice the fairness of a transaction connected with a mail order sale and the interests of the purchaser or the service recipient or the seller or the service provider fails to follow the instructions under the provisions of that paragraph, the minister may order the seller or the service provider to suspend those of its business activities that are connected with mail order sales in whole or in part, during a specified period of no longer than two years. In this case, if the seller or the service provider is an individual, the minister may also prohibit the individual from becoming an officer in charge of business activities that are subject to the suspension at a corporation that engages in those business activities for a period equal to the period of that suspension.
主務大臣は、販売業者若しくは役務提供事業者が第十一条、第十二条、第十二条の三（第五項を除く。）、第十二条の五、第十二条の六、第十三条第一項若しくは第十三条の二の規定に違反し若しくは前条第一項各号に掲げる行為をした場合において通信販売に係る取引の公正及び購入者若しくは役務の提供を受ける者の利益が著しく害されるおそれがあると認めるとき、又は販売業者若しくは役務提供事業者が同項の規定による指示に従わないときは、その販売業者又は役務提供事業者に対し、二年以内の期間を限り、通信販売に関する業務の全部又は一部を停止すべきことを命ずることができる。この場合において、主務大臣は、その販売業者又は役務提供事業者が個人である場合にあつては、その者に対して、当該停止を命ずる期間と同一の期間を定めて、当該停止を命ずる範囲の業務を営む法人の当該業務を担当する役員となることの禁止を併せて命ずることができる。
If the competent minister orders suspension of business pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of the preceding paragraph, and the seller or service provider is an individual, and the specified associated corporation is found to conduct business activities equal to the scope of the business activities subject to the suspension, the minister may order the seller or the service provider to suspend the business activities conducted by the specified associated corporation for the period equal to the period of the suspension.
If a contractor sending email advertising mail order sales has violated any of the provisions of Article 12-4, paragraph (1) or Article 12-3, paragraphs (2) through (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 12-4, paragraph (2) or has engaged in any of the conduct listed in the items of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to significantly prejudice the fairness of a transaction connected with mail order sales and the interests of the purchaser or the service recipient, or if a contractor sending email advertising mail order sales fails to follow the instructions under the provisions of that paragraph, the minister may order the contractor sending email advertising mail order sales to suspend those of its business activities that are connected with email advertising mail order sales in whole or in part, during a specified period of no longer than one year.
主務大臣は、通信販売電子メール広告受託事業者が第十二条の四第一項若しくは同条第二項において準用する第十二条の三第二項から第四項までの規定に違反し若しくは前条第二項各号に掲げる行為をした場合において通信販売に係る取引の公正及び購入者若しくは役務の提供を受ける者の利益が著しく害されるおそれがあると認めるとき、又は通信販売電子メール広告受託事業者が同項の規定による指示に従わないときは、その通信販売電子メール広告受託事業者に対し、一年以内の期間を限り、通信販売電子メール広告に関する業務の全部又は一部を停止すべきことを命ずることができる。
Having issued an order under the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.
Having issued an order under the provisions of paragraph (3), the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.
主務大臣は、第三項の規定による命令をしたときは、その旨を公表しなければならない。