①If the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a prefectural governor is unable to ascertain the location of a business office of a Real Estate Broker to whom the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or said prefectural governor has granted a license or the location of a Real Estate Broker to whom the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or said prefectural governor has granted a license (if the Real Estate Broker is a corporation, the location of an officer thereof); the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or said prefectural governor may, if no communications is received from said Real Estate Broker even after the passage of thirty days from the date of the public notice of said fact through the Official Gazette or a bulletin of said prefecture, rescind the license of said Real Estate Broker.

②The provisions of Chapter III of the Administrative Procedures Act do not apply to a disposition under the preceding paragraph.