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Article 207

第二百七条

If the representative of a corporation (including an organization without legal personality for which a representative or administrator has been designated; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and the following paragraph) or the agent, employee, or any other worker of a corporation or individual commits a violation set forth in any of the provisions of the following items in connection with the business or property of the corporation or individual, in addition to the offender being punished, the corporation is sentenced to the fine prescribed in each of those items and the individual is sentenced to the fine prescribed in the relevant Articles:

法人(法人でない団体で代表者又は管理人の定めのあるものを含む。以下この項及び次項において同じ。)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又は財産に関し、次の各号に掲げる規定の違反行為をしたときは、その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。

the provisions of Article 197:a fine of not more than 700 million yen;

第百九十七条 七億円以下の罰金刑

the provisions of Article 197-2, paragraph (1) or Article 197-3:a fine of not more than 500 million yen;

第百九十七条の二第一項又は第百九十七条の三 五億円以下の罰金刑

the provisions of Article 198, paragraph (1) (excluding item (v)) or Article 198-3 through Article 198-5:a fine of not more than 300 million yen;

the provisions of Article 198-6 (excluding item (viii), item (ix), item (xii), item (xiii), and item (xv)) or Article 199:a fine of not more than 200 million yen;

第百九十八条の六(第八号、第九号、第十二号、第十三号及び第十五号を除く。)又は第百九十九条 二億円以下の罰金刑

The period of prescription for punishing a corporation or individual by a fine due to a violation referred to in Article 197, Article 197-2, paragraph (1) or Article 197-3 pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the period of prescription for the crimes in those provisions.

前項の規定により第百九十七条、第百九十七条の二第一項又は第百九十七条の三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。

If an organization without legal personality is to be punished pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the representative or administrator of that organization represents the organization with regard to procedural acts, and the provisions of laws on criminal proceedings that have a corporation as the defendant or suspect apply mutatis mutandis.

第一項の規定により法人でない団体を処罰する場合には、その代表者又は管理人がその訴訟行為につきその団体を代表するほか、法人を被告人又は被疑者とする場合の刑事訴訟に関する法律の規定を準用する。

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