①When there is a request from a general consumer who has conducted a transaction of goods or services during the period subject to administrative monetary penalty prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (2), and who is specified pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, if a person who has received a notice under the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) seeks to implement a measure to deliver an amount of money that is equivalent to or greater than the amount obtained by multiplying the purchase amount calculated by the method specified by Cabinet Order by three one-hundredth (including prepaid payment instruments referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Payment Services Act (Act No. 59 of 2009) issued by a third-party type issuer prescribed in paragraph (7) of that Article and other payment instruments specified by Cabinet Office Order, and conforms to the criteria specified by Cabinet Office Order as those that may be normally used in the same manner as money (referred to as "payment instruments other than money" below in this paragraph); the same applies below in this Article and paragraph (2) of the following Article) (when taking measures of delivering payment instruments other than money, limited to those to be taken for a person who has consented to be delivered payment means other than money; referred to as "refund measures" below in this Article and the following Article), the person may obtain approval for the measures by preparing a plan on refund measures they seek to implement and submit the plan to the Prime Minister (referred to as the "planned refund measures" below in this Article) (referred to as the "plan for implementing refund measures" below in this Article) by the submission deadline of the written explanation prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1), pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

②The following matters must be entered in the plan for implementing refund measures:

③The plan for implementing refund measures may state the name of the person to whom the refund measures has already been implemented before applying for the approval referred to in paragraph (1), the amount of the money delivered to that person and its calculation method, and other matters prescribed by Cabinet Office Order as those related to the refund measures implemented before the application.

④Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, if a person who applied for the approval referred to in paragraph (1) has implemented the refund measures after the application and before receiving a disposition for the application, the person must report to the Prime Minister the name of the person subject to the refund measures, the amount of the money delivered to that person and its calculation method, and other matters prescribed by Cabinet Office Order as those related to the refund measures, without delay.

⑤When an application for the approval referred to in paragraph (1) has been made, the Prime Minister must not approve that application unless the plan for implementing refund measures conforms to all of the following requirements:

⑥A person who has received the approval referred to in paragraph (1) (referred to as the "approved business operator" below in this Article and the following Article) must obtain an approval from the Prime Minister when seeking to change the plan for implementing refund measures for which the approval has been granted, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

⑦The provisions of paragraph (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph.

⑧If the Prime Minister finds that the refund measures by an approved business operator are not being implemented in conformity with the approved plan for implementing refund measures (if changes under the provisions of paragraph (6) has been approved, the changed plan; referred to as the "approved implementation plan for refund measures" in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the following Article), the Prime Minister must revoke the approval referred to in paragraph (1) (including the approval of changes under the provisions of paragraph (6); simply referred to as the "approval" in the following paragraph and the proviso to paragraph (10)).

⑨When granting an approval, or revoking an approval pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister is to promptly notify the person subject to the disposition to that effect in writing.

⑩Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1), if the Prime Minister has granted the approval referred to in paragraph (1), the Prime Minister may not order the approved business operator to pay administrative monetary penalty until the deadline for making the report prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article; provided, however, that this does not apply if the approval has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (8).

①An approved business operator (excluding those for whom the approval referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article has been revoked under the provisions of paragraph (8) of that Article (including the approval of changes prescribed in the provisions of paragraph (6) of that Article); the same applies in paragraph (3)) must report to the Prime Minister the results of the refund measures for the approved implementation plan for refund measures implemented after obtaining the approval referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article, within one week after the expiration of the implementation period prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article, which is stated in the approved implementation plan for refund measures, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

②In the case referred to in Article 8, paragraph (1), if the Prime Minister finds that the refund measures implemented after obtaining the approval referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article has been implemented in conformity with the approved implementation plan for refund measures based on the report prescribed under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister is to deduct the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order as money delivered through the refund measures (if the approved implementation plan for refund measures states the matters prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article or the report prescribed in the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article is made, including the refund measures related to the matters or report) from the amount of administrative monetary penalty calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) or (4) or Article 9. In such a case, if the amount after deducting the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order from the amount of administrative monetary penalty falls below zero, the amount is to be zero.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1), the Prime Minister is not to order the approved business operator to pay administrative monetary penalty, if the amount of administrative monetary penalty calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph becomes less than ten thousand yen. In such a case, the Prime Minister is to promptly notify the approved business operator to that effect in writing.

①A 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.

②If 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.

③If 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.

④If 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 ".

⑤The 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.

⑥In 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.

⑦If 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.