①A public safety commission may, so far as is necessary to enforce the provisions of this Chapter, ask a specified automated operation provider to report or submit materials on its specified automated operation, or have a police official enter the place prescribed in Article 75-12, paragraph (2), item (ii), (c) or another office of the specified automated operation provider to inspect books, documents and other items or to question relevant persons.

②When a police official enters premises pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the official must carry identification showing the official's status and present it to relevant persons.

③The authority for an on-site inspection under paragraph (1) must not be construed as authorizing a criminal investigation.

④If a public safety commission finds it necessary to do so to enforce the provisions of this Chapter, it may make inquiries with, or ask for cooperation from, government agencies, public bodies, and other persons.

①If a specified automated operation provider or its specified automated operation worker violates, in connection with specified automated operation, a provision of this Act, a provision of an order under this Act, a disposition based on a provision of this Act, or a provision of other laws and regulations, and a public safety commission finds it necessary to do so in order to prevent hazards on roads or otherwise ensure the safety and fluidity of traffic, it may instruct the specified automated operation provider to take the necessary measures in connection with specified automated operation (including not conducting specified automated operation until the measures are taken).

②If a public safety commission intends to give an instruction under the preceding paragraph and the specified automated operation by the specified automated operation provider subject to the instruction is conducted as motor carrier services as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Road Transportation Act (excluding light motor vehicle cargo transportation services as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Motor Truck Transportation Business Act) or as Type II cargo transportation services as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (8) of the Consigned Freight Forwarding Business Act, it must hear the opinion of the supervising administrative agency for those services.

①A public safety commission may, if any of the following items applies, revoke the permission for specified automated operation of the specified automated operation provider concerned, or suspend its validity for a period that the commission specifies, not exceeding six months.

②The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the revocation of permission, or the suspension of its validity, under the preceding paragraph.

③If a public safety commission has revoked the permission for specified automated operation pursuant to paragraph (1), it must give public notice to that effect, as provided by Cabinet Office Order.

①If any of the following items applies and there is an urgent need to prevent hazards on roads, the chief of the police station having jurisdiction over the place where the fact occurred may, with regard to the specified automated operation provider concerned, suspend the validity of the permission for specified automated operation until the day on which 30 days have elapsed, counting from the date on which the fact occurred (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "provisional suspension").

②Having made a provisional suspension, the chief of the police station must provide the specified automated operation provider subject to that disposition with an opportunity for explanation within five days, counting from the date on which the disposition was made.

③The chief of the police station who has made a provisional suspension must promptly report the matters that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the public safety commission.

④A provisional suspension loses its effect if the public safety commission that has received a report under the preceding paragraph makes a disposition on the case under Article 75-26, paragraph (1) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article within the period of that provisional suspension.

⑤If a person subject to a provisional suspension has been subject to a suspension of the validity of the permission under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article on the case, the period during which the provisional suspension was in effect is to be counted toward the period of suspension of the validity of that permission.

If a public safety commission has made a disposition under Article 75-26, paragraph (1) or Article 75-27, paragraph (1), or has received a report under paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, it must report the matters that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the National Public Safety Commission. In such a case, the National Public Safety Commission is to notify each public safety commission of the matters pertaining to the report.