If a licensed installment seller closes some of its business offices or agency offices and the amount of the business security deposit exceeds the amount prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1), the licensed installment seller may recover the excess amount.
The recovery of the excess business security deposit as referred to in the preceding paragraph is not permitted unless public notice is issued to the persons with the right to that business security deposit as referred to in Article 21, paragraph (1), indicating that those persons must make a filing within a fixed period of not less than six months, and no filing is made within that period; provided, however, that this does not apply once ten years have passed following the occurrence of grounds for the recovery of a business security deposit.
The necessary matters of the public notice referred to in the preceding paragraph and other matters relevant to the recovery of the business security deposit as referred to in the provisions of paragraph (1) are specified by Order of the Ministry of Justice and Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
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第十一条の許可を受けた者(以下「許可割賦販売業者」という。)が第二十三条第一項又は第二項の規定により許可を取り消された場合において、その処分のあつた日前三十日以内にその許可割賦販売業者の役員であつた者で…
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前払式割賦販売(指定商品を引き渡す前に、購入者から二回以上に分けて代金の全部または一部を受け取る割賦販売)を業として営むために、経済産業大臣の許可(第十一条)を受けた者のことです。