With regard to a securities company for which the fund received a notice by March 31, 2001 under the provisions of Article 79-53, paragraph (1) or paragraphs (3) through (5) (hereinafter referred to as a "company subject to the special rule"), the provisions of Article 79-57, paragraph (3) do not apply to the amount that the fund is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 79-56, paragraph (1) and Article 79-57, paragraph (1).

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.

①With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 79-72 where the fund performs the services set forth in Article 79-49, items (i) through (iv) and item (vi) relating to a company subject to the special rule (including services deemed to be the services set forth in Article 79-49, item (i) or (ii) pursuant to Article 42, paragraph (7) or Article 43, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on the Development of Related Acts, etc. for Financial System Reform (Act No. 107 of 1998); the same applies in the following Article), the phrase "financial institutions, etc. (meaning banks, securities companies, and others specified by Cabinet Office Order and Ministry of Finance Order)" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "financial institutions, etc. (meaning banks, securities companies, and others specified by Cabinet Office Order and Ministry of Finance Order) or the Bank of Japan".

②In the case where the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply, the Bank of Japan may carry out the lending of funds to the fund, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) of the Bank of Japan Act (Act No. 89 of 1997).

③If the fund borrows under the provisions of Article 79-72 as the terms are replaced pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the government may, if it finds it necessary, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3 of the Act on Restrictions on Financial Assistance by the Government to Corporations (Act No. 24 of 1946), guarantee the obligations of the fund pertaining to that borrowing within the limits of the amount approved by a resolution of the Diet.

①If, on the last day of the business year that includes the date specified by Cabinet Order as the date on which the fund ended the services listed in Article 79-49, items (i) through (iv) and item (vi) pertaining to a company subject to the special rule, there is a remaining balance of borrowings guaranteed by the government under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, the fund must, with regard to the accounting for the performance of the obligations pertaining to those borrowings, keep it separate from other accounting and settle it by establishing a special account (hereinafter referred to as the "liquidation account").

②On the last day of the business year prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the fund is to cause the obligations pertaining to the borrowings referred to in that paragraph, the claims for burden charges (meaning, where there are unpaid burden charges under the provisions of Article 79-28, paragraph (4) or Article 79-64, paragraph (1), the claims pertaining to those burden charges; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), and the reserve as of that day (meaning the reserve prescribed in Article 79-71, paragraph (1); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) to vest in the liquidation account, and is to transfer to the liquidation account from the funds for investor protection an amount equivalent to their balance as of that day, only up to the amount equivalent to the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the claims for burden charges and the amount of the reserve from the balance of those borrowings.

①In each business year from the business year following the business year prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to the business year that includes the day on which the liquidation account of the fund to which a securities company belongs is abolished pursuant to the provisions of Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions, if the amount of the obligations pertaining to the borrowings that have come to vest in the liquidation account pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article exceeds the amount of the assets belonging to the liquidation account, the securities company must, in addition to the burden charges under the provisions of Article 79-64, paragraph (1), pay burden charges to the fund as funds for the fund to apply to the performance of those obligations, as provided by the operational rules.

②The provisions of Article 79-64, paragraph (2), Article 79-65, paragraph (1), and Article 79-66 apply mutatis mutandis to the burden charges set forth in the preceding paragraph.

③The amount of the burden charges under the provisions of paragraph (1) is not to be less than the amount obtained by multiplying the calculation base amount by the burden charge rate that the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance specify in consideration of the amount required for the performance of the obligations pertaining to the borrowings that have come to vest in the liquidation account pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article.

①In each business year from the business year that includes the day of establishment of the fund until the business year that includes the day on which the liquidation account was abolished pursuant to the provisions of the following Article, in the case where a liquidation account has been established, or until the business year that includes the date specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, in the case where a liquidation account has not been established, the fund must, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 79-69, obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance for the budget and financial plan for that business year prepared pursuant to the provisions of that Article, before the commencement of that business year (with regard to a business year that includes the day of establishment of the fund, without delay after the establishment of the fund). The same applies if the fund seeks to change them.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude the founders of the fund, on behalf of the fund, before the commencement of the business year that includes the day of establishment of the fund, from applying for the authorization of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance under the provisions of the preceding paragraph for the budget and financial plan for that business year determined by an organizational meeting resolution pursuant to the provisions of Article 79-29, paragraph (6), and obtaining that authorization.

The fund is to abolish the liquidation account on the day on which the performance of the obligations pertaining to the borrowings that have come to vest in the liquidation account pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions is completed.

In applying the provisions of Article 79-49, item (v) in the case where a liquidation account has been established in the fund pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "burden charges (meaning the burden charges prescribed in Article 79-28, paragraph (4) and Article 79-64, paragraph (1); the same applies in Article 79-51, paragraph (1))" in that item is deemed to be replaced with "burden charges (meaning the burden charges prescribed in Article 79-28, paragraph (4), Article 79-64, paragraph (1) and Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies in Article 79-51, paragraph (1))".

If the fund fails to obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance in violation of the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the officer of the fund (including a provisional board member and provisional inspector) who committed the act is sentenced to a civil fine of 300,000 yen or less.