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Article 12Obligation to Pay Administrative Monetary Penalty

第十二条(課徴金の納付義務等)

A person who has received a payment order for administrative monetary penalty must pay the administrative monetary penalty calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) or (4), Article 9, or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article.

課徴金納付命令を受けた者は、第八条第一項若しくは第四項、第九条又は前条第二項の規定により計算した課徴金を納付しなければならない。

If the amount of administrative monetary penalty calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) or (4), Article 9, or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article has a fraction of less than ten thousand yen, the fraction is rounded down to the nearest ten thousand yen.

第八条第一項若しくは第四項、第九条又は前条第二項の規定により計算した課徴金の額に一万円未満の端数があるときは、その端数は、切り捨てる。

If a business operator who has committed acts subject to administrative monetary penalty is a corporation, and the corporation has ceased to exist as a result of the merger, the acts subject to administrative monetary penalty committed by that corporation are deemed to be acts subject to administrative monetary penalty committed by the surviving corporation, or the corporation established as a result of the merger, and the provisions of Article 8 through the preceding Article, and the preceding two paragraphs and the following paragraph apply.

課徴金対象行為をした事業者が法人である場合において、当該法人が合併により消滅したときは、当該法人がした課徴金対象行為は、合併後存続し、又は合併により設立された法人がした課徴金対象行為とみなして、第八条から前条まで並びに前二項及び次項の規定を適用する。

If a business operator that has committed an act subject to administrative monetary penalty is a corporation, and the corporation has transferred all of the business connected with the act subject to administrative monetary penalty to one subsidiary or multiple subsidiaries, etc. (meaning a subsidiary or parent company of a business operator (meaning another company that has a company as its subsidiary; the same applies below in this paragraph), or another company whose parent company is the same as that for the business operator: the same applies below in this paragraph) on or after the day the collection of reports, etc. was made for the case related to acts subject to administrative monetary penalty (if the collection of reports, etc. has not been commenced, the day on which the corporation received the notice under the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) on the act subject to administrative monetary penalty; the same applies below in this paragraph), or the corporation (limited to a company) has one subsidiary or multiple subsidiaries succeed to all of the business related to acts subject to administrative monetary penalty through a split on or after the starting date for the case on the act subject to administrative monetary penalty, and, has disappeared due to grounds other than merger, the act subject to administrative monetary penalty committed by the corporation is deemed to be an act subject to administrative monetary penalty committed by the subsidiaries, etc. that have been transferred all or part of the business, or has succeeded to all or part of the business through a split (referred to as the "subsidiaries, etc. that has succeeded to the specified business " below in this paragraph) and the provisions of Article 8 through the preceding Article and the preceding three paragraphs apply. In such a case, if there are two or more subsidiaries, etc. succeeding to a specified business, the term "to the business operator" in Article 8, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "to the subsidiary, etc. that has succeeded to the specified business (meaning the subsidiary, etc. that has succeeded to the specified business prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (4); the same applies below in this paragraph), jointly and severally with another subsidiary, etc., that has succeeded to the specified business that has received an order pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph, and the phrase "a person that has received..., ...jointly and severally with...Article 8, paragraph (1)" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the subsidiary, etc. that has succeeded to the specified business (meaning the subsidiary, etc. that has succeeded to the specified business prescribed in paragraph (4); the same applies below in this paragraph), jointly and severally with another subsidiary, etc. that has succeeded to the specified business that has received the order under the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1), ...that paragraph ".

課徴金対象行為をした事業者が法人である場合において、当該法人が当該課徴金対象行為に係る事案について報告徴収等が最初に行われた日(当該報告徴収等が行われなかつたときは、当該法人が当該課徴金対象行為について第十五条第一項の規定による通知を受けた日。以下この項において「調査開始日」という。)以後においてその一若しくは二以上の子会社等(事業者の子会社若しくは親会社(会社を子会社とする他の会社をいう。以下この項において同じ。)又は当該事業者と親会社が同一である他の会社をいう。以下この項において同じ。)に対して当該課徴金対象行為に係る事業の全部を譲渡し、又は当該法人(会社に限る。)が当該課徴金対象行為に係る事案についての調査開始日以後においてその一若しくは二以上の子会社等に対して分割により当該課徴金対象行為に係る事業の全部を承継させ、かつ、合併以外の事由により消滅したときは、当該法人がした課徴金対象行為は、当該事業の全部若しくは一部を譲り受け、又は分割により当該事業の全部若しくは一部を承継した子会社等(以下この項において「特定事業承継子会社等」という。)がした課徴金対象行為とみなして、第八条から前条まで及び前三項の規定を適用する。この場合において、当該特定事業承継子会社等が二以上あるときは、第八条第一項中「当該事業者に対し」とあるのは「特定事業承継子会社等(第十二条第四項に規定する特定事業承継子会社等をいう。以下この項において同じ。)に対し、この項の規定による命令を受けた他の特定事業承継子会社等と連帯して」と、第一項中「受けた者は、第八条第一項」とあるのは「受けた特定事業承継子会社等(第四項に規定する特定事業承継子会社等をいう。以下この項において同じ。)は、第八条第一項の規定による命令を受けた他の特定事業承継子会社等と連帯して、同項」とする。

The term "subsidiary" prescribed in the preceding paragraph means another company for which a company possesses a majority of voting rights (excluding voting rights for shares that may not be exercised on all of the matters that may be adopted at a shareholders meeting, and including voting rights for shares for which shareholders are deemed to have voting rights pursuant to the provisions of Article 879, paragraph (3) of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005); the same applies below in this paragraph) of all shareholders (including all members; the same applies below in this paragraph). In such a case, another company for which the company and its subsidiary or multiple subsidiaries, or its subsidiary or multiple subsidiaries possess the majority of the voting rights of all shareholders, is deemed to be a subsidiary of the company.

前項に規定する「子会社」とは、会社がその総株主(総社員を含む。以下この項において同じ。)の議決権(株主総会において決議をすることができる事項の全部につき議決権を行使することができない株式についての議決権を除き、会社法(平成十七年法律第八十六号)第八百七十九条第三項の規定により議決権を有するものとみなされる株式についての議決権を含む。以下この項において同じ。)の過半数を有する他の会社をいう。この場合において、会社及びその一若しくは二以上の子会社又は会社の一若しくは二以上の子会社がその総株主の議決権の過半数を有する他の会社は、当該会社の子会社とみなす。

In the cases referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4), necessary matters for applying the provisions of Article 8, paragraphs (2) through (6), and Article 9 through the preceding Article are specified by Cabinet Order.

第三項及び第四項の場合において、第八条第二項から第六項まで及び第九条から前条までの規定の適用に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。

If five years have passed since the day when a person has ceased to commit an act subject to administrative monetary penalty, the Prime Minister may not order the person to pay administrative monetary penalty for the act subject to administrative monetary penalty.

課徴金対象行為をやめた日から五年を経過したときは、内閣総理大臣は、当該課徴金対象行為に係る課徴金の納付を命ずることができない。

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