A person who intends to operate a business set forth in paragraph (2), item (i) or (ii) of the preceding Article must receive a permit from a Prefectural Public Safety Commission (hereinafter referred to as "Public Safety Commission").

A Public Safety Commission must not grant a permit to a person who intends to receive a permit under the provisions of the preceding Article if the person falls under any of the following items:

①A person who intends to receive a permit under the provisions of Article 3 must submit a written application for permission stating the following particulars to the Public Safety Commission that has jurisdiction over the location of the principal place of business of the person or the secondhand goods market. In this case, documents specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules must be attached to the written permit application.

②When the Public Safety Commission grants a permit under the provisions of Article 3, it must issue a written permit.

③When a permit is not granted under the provisions of Article 3, the Public Safety Commission must notify the applicant to that effect in writing, stating reasons.

④If an issued permit is lost or destroyed, the person who received the permit must promptly notify the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of the person's principal place of business or secondhand goods market to that effect, and receive a reissued permit.

①The Public Safety Commission may cancel the permit granted to a person who has received a permit under the provisions of Article 3 if any of the following facts are found to apply to the person:

②The Public Safety Commission may, if the location of the place of business or secondhand goods market of a person who has received a permit under the provisions of Article 3 cannot be ascertained, or if the whereabouts of the person (or in the case of a corporation, the whereabouts of its officers) cannot be ascertained, give public notice of that fact under the provisions of the National Public Safety Commission Rules, and may cancel the permit when no request is received from the person within thirty days after the date of the public notice.

③The provisions of Chapter III of the Administrative Procedure Act (Act No. 88 of 1993) do not apply to dispositions under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

①A secondhand goods dealer or secondhand goods market owner who intends to make changes to any of the particulars set forth in Article 5, paragraph (1), item (ii), must submit, a written notification stating the particulars specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules, in advance, to the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of the principal place of business or the secondhand goods market (or in the case of a change in the location of the principal place of business or the secondhand goods market beyond the jurisdictional district of the Public Safety Commission, the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of the principal place of business or the secondhand goods market after the change).

②A secondhand goods dealer or secondhand goods market owner must submit a written notification to the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of the secondhand goods dealer's principal place of business or the secondhand goods market, stating the particulars specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules, when a change has been made to any of the particulars set forth in each the items of Article 5, paragraph (1) (excluding item (ii))

③A secondhand goods dealer or a secondhand goods market owner who has a place of business or a secondhand goods market within the jurisdictional district of a Public Safety Commission other than the Public Safety Commission prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs may submit a written notification under the preceding two paragraphs via the Public Safety Commission.

④A written notification submitted under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) must be accompanied by documents specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules.

⑤When a written notification is submitted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2), any matters described in the notification that fall under the particulars to be described in the permit must be rewritten.

①If any of the following events arises, a person to whom a permit has been issued must return the permit (or in the case of item (iii), the found or restored permit) without delay to the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of the principal place of business or the secondhand goods market of the person:

②When the permit is returned under the provisions of item (i) of the preceding paragraph, the permission under the provisions of Article 3 will cease to be valid.

③When a person to whom a permit has been issued falls under any of the following items, the person prescribed under each of the following items must return the permit without delay to the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of the principal place of business or the secondhand goods market of the person:

①The Public Safety Commission is to provide the following particulars regarding secondhand goods dealers that use the method prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1), item (vi) (referred to as "specified secondhand goods dealers" in Article 12, paragraphs (2) and (3)), for public inspection, by automated public transmission conducted by connecting to an electric telecommunications line:

②In the event of a change in any of the particulars set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph, the Public Safety Commission is to correct the relevant particulars without delay.

A secondhand goods dealer or secondhand goods market owner must not allow any other person to operate a secondhand goods business using its name.

①When a secondhand goods dealer intends to conduct an auction at a place other than the secondhand goods market operated by a secondhand goods market owner, the secondhand goods dealer must notify the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the relevant place, of the time and place of the auction, in advance.

②A secondhand goods dealer who does not have a place of business within the jurisdictional district of the Public Safety Commission prescribed in the preceding paragraph may file a notification under the provisions of the same paragraph via the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of the place of business.

③When a secondhand dealer who intends to conduct an auction in paragraph (1) by making particulars relating to the secondhand goods to be sold available for public inspection through an automated public transmission by connecting to an electric telecommunications line, and by using a method of receiving offers for purchase of the secondhand goods through a communication means specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules, the secondhand goods dealer must, notwithstanding the provisions of the same paragraph, notify the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of the place of business that handles the secondhand goods, in advance, concerning the letters, numbers, symbols, or other signs used to identify the source of the automated public transmission relating to the particulars of the secondhand goods, the period during which the auction is to be conducted, and other particulars specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules.

④The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs do not apply to cases where a person intends to conduct transactions through brokering conducted by a secondhand goods auction broker.

①A secondhand goods auction broker must submit, to the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of the office serving as the base of business operations (or in the case of a person who does not have a place of business, domicile or residence of the person; the same applies hereinafter), a written notification stating the following particulars within two weeks from the date of commencement of the business. In this case, the written notification must be accompanied by documents specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules.

②If the secondhand goods auction brokerage has been abolished or the information set forth in any of the items of the preceding paragraph has changed, the person who submitted a written notification referred to in the same paragraph must submit to the Public Safety Commission (if the office serving as the base of business operations has been relocated outside the jurisdictional district of the Public Safety Commission, the Public Safety Commission with jurisdiction over the location of the office serving as the base of business operations after the relocation) a written notification stating the particulars prescribed in the National Public Safety Commission Rules. In this case, the written notification must be accompanied by documents specified by the National Public Safety Commission Rules.