If the competent minister orders a seller or a service provider to suspend its business activities pursuant to the first sentence of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and the person specified in accordance with the category of cases listed in the following items in the relevant items is a person specified by order of the competent ministry as one whose door-to-door sales should be restricted so as to ensure the effectiveness of the order in consideration of the facts constituting the grounds for the order and the weight of the responsibility that the person had for those facts, the minister may prohibit the person from commencing new business activities that fall within the scope of the suspension (including becoming an officer in charge of the relevant business activities of a corporation that engages in the business activities) for a period equal to the period of that suspension:
if the seller or the service provider is a corporation: its officer or a person who was its officer in one year before the date of the order, or its employee or a person who was its employee within one year before the date of the order; or
if the seller or the service provider is an individual: an employee or a person who was an employee within one year before the date of the order.
When the competent minister prohibits business activities of an officer or employee pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and the officer or employee falls under any of the following items, the minister may order the officer or employee to suspend the same business activities conducted by it and provided for in each of the items for a period equal to the period of the prohibition.
a person who is found to be engaged in the same business as the business within the scope for which prohibition is ordered by the order at the specified associated corporation of a seller or a service provider who is found to have committed the act constituting the grounds for the order; or
a person who, as a seller or a service provider, is found to conduct the same business activities as the same scope of the business for which prohibition is ordered pursuant to the order.
自ら販売業者又は役務提供事業者として当該命令により禁止を命ずる範囲の業務と同一の業務を行つていると認められる者
Having issued an order under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.
主務大臣は、前二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。