The Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs may not make a designation under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article unless the association satisfies the following criteria:
文化庁長官は、次に掲げる要件を備える団体でなければ前条第一項の規定による指定をしてはならない。
it is a general incorporated association;
一般社団法人であること。
it has as its members the following associations:
次に掲げる団体を構成員とすること。
an association (including a federation of associations) that has as its members persons that own the rights provided for in Article 23, paragraph (1) in connection with works associated with public transmission (hereinafter in this Section referred to as "public transmission by libraries or similar facilities")under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (3) and Article 102, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter in paragraph (4) of the following Article), and which is recognized as representing, in Japan, the interests of persons that own the right provided for in that paragraph in connection with works associated with public transmission by libraries or similar facilities;
an association (including a federation of associations) that has as its members owners of item (ii) print rights in connection with works associated with public transmission by libraries or similar facilities, and which is recognized as representing, in Japan, the interests of the owners of item (ii) print rights in connection with works associated with public transmission by libraries or similar facilities;
the associations set forth in (a) and (b) of the preceding item satisfy the following conditions:
前号イ及びロに掲げる団体がそれぞれ次に掲げる要件を備えるものであること。
they are non-profit associations;
営利を目的としないこと。
their members may freely join and leave;
その構成員が任意に加入し、又は脱退することができること。
their members have an equal right to vote on resolutions and in elections;
その構成員の議決権及び選挙権が平等であること。
they have sufficient capacity to properly perform functions involved in exercising the right to receive compensation for public transmission by libraries or similar facilities (including functions involved in the undertaking referred to in Article 104-10-6, paragraph (1); hereinafter in this Section referred to as "functions connected with compensation") on behalf of the right holders.
権利者のために図書館等公衆送信補償金を受ける権利を行使する業務（第百四条の十の六第一項の事業に係る業務を含む。以下この節において「補償金関係業務」という。）を的確に遂行するに足りる能力を有すること。
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