Supplementary Provisions, Article 5

In each business year from the business year that includes the day of establishment of the fund through the business year of the fund that includes the day specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the amount of burden charges prescribed in Article 79-64, paragraph (1) must not be less than the amount obtained by multiplying the amount that the fund specifies in its operational rules as the basis for calculating the burden charges to be paid by securities companies that are members (hereinafter referred to as the "calculation base amount") by the burden charge rate that the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance specify in consideration of the estimated amount of costs required for services linked to funds for investor protection and the financial condition of the relevant securities company. In this case, the calculation base amount that the fund specifies must not be discriminatory against any specific securities company.