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Article 22

第二十二条

If the representative of a corporation, or the agent, employee, or other worker of a corporation or of any person has committed a violation stated in any of the provisions of the following items with regard to the business of the corporation or the person, the corporation is to be subject to the fine prescribed in the relevant items, and the person is to be subject to the fine prescribed in the relevant Article in addition to the offender being subject to punishment:

法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関し、次の各号に掲げる規定の違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するほか、その法人に対して当該各号に定める罰金刑を、その人に対して各本条の罰金刑を科する。

paragraph (4) or paragraph (6) of the preceding Article (limited to the part regarding paragraph (4) of the same Article):a fine of not more than 1 billion yen;

前条第四項又は第六項(同条第四項に係る部分に限る。) 十億円以下の罰金刑

paragraph (1) or paragraph (6) of the preceding Article (limited to the part regarding paragraph (1) of the same Article):a fine of not more than 500 million yen; or

前条第一項又は第六項(同条第一項に係る部分に限る。) 五億円以下の罰金刑

paragraph (3) of the preceding Article:a fine of not more than 300 million yen.

前条第三項 三億円以下の罰金刑

In a case referred to in the preceding paragraph, a criminal complaint filed against the offender for an offence prescribed in paragraph (3), item (vi) of the same Article, as prescribed in paragraph (7) of the preceding Article, is also to have effect with respect to the corporation or person mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Similarly, a criminal complaint filed against that corporation or person is to have effect with respect to the offender.

前項の場合において、当該行為者に対してした前条第三項第六号の罪に係る同条第七項の告訴は、その法人又は人に対しても効力を生じ、その法人又は人に対してした告訴は、当該行為者に対しても効力を生ずるものとする。

The period of prescription for the punishment by fine to which the corporation or person in question is subject pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) for a violation under paragraph (1), (3), (4), or (6) of the preceding Article (limited to the part regarding paragraph (1) or (4) of the same Article) is to be the same as that for the offence referred to in those provisions.

第一項の規定により前条第一項、第三項、第四項又は第六項(同条第一項又は第四項に係る部分に限る。)の違反行為につき法人又は人に罰金刑を科する場合における時効の期間は、これらの規定の罪についての時効の期間による。

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