Article 57Suspension of Business Opportunity Sales Transactions by Persons Engaged in Business Opportunity Sales
第五十七条（業務提供誘引販売業を行う者に対する業務提供誘引販売取引の停止等）
If a person engaged in business opportunity sales has violated any of the provisions of Articles 51-2, 52, 53, 54, and 54-3 (excluding paragraph (5)), or Article 55, paragraph (1) or (2), or has engaged in any of the conduct listed in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to significantly prejudice the fairness of business opportunity sales transactions or the interests of the counterparty to them, or the person engaged in business opportunity sales fails to follow the instructions under the provisions of that paragraph, the minister may order the person engaged in business opportunity sales to suspend the business opportunity sales transactions that are connected with business opportunity sales in whole or in part, during a specified period of no longer than two years. In the case, if the person engaged in business opportunity sales is an individual, the minister may also prohibit the individual from becoming an officer in charge of business activities related to business opportunity sales transactions that are subject to the suspension at a corporation that engages in those business activities for a period equal to the period of that suspension.
主務大臣は、業務提供誘引販売業を行う者が第五十一条の二、第五十二条、第五十三条、第五十四条、第五十四条の三（第五項を除く。）若しくは第五十五条第一項若しくは第二項の規定に違反し若しくは前条第一項各号に掲げる行為をした場合において業務提供誘引販売取引の公正及び業務提供誘引販売取引の相手方の利益が著しく害されるおそれがあると認めるとき、又は業務提供誘引販売業を行う者が同項の規定による指示に従わないときは、その業務提供誘引販売業を行う者に対し、二年以内の期間を限り、当該業務提供誘引販売業に係る業務提供誘引販売取引の全部又は一部を停止すべきことを命ずることができる。この場合において、主務大臣は、その業務提供誘引販売業を行う者が個人である場合にあつては、その者に対して、当該停止を命ずる期間と同一の期間を定めて、当該停止を命ずる範囲の業務提供誘引販売取引に係る業務を営む法人の当該業務を担当する役員となることの禁止を併せて命ずることができる。
If the competent minister orders suspension of a business opportunity sales transaction related to the business opportunity sales pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of the preceding paragraph, and when the person engaged in business opportunity sales is an individual and a specified associated corporation of them (meaning a corporation whose business management is substantially controlled by a person engaged in business opportunity sales, or its officer or employee (including a person who was an officer or employee within one year before the date of the order; the same applies in paragraph (2) of the next Article) and other corporations specified by Cabinet Order; the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (2), item (i) of the Article) is found to conduct business activities equal to the business activities related to business opportunity sales transactions on the scope subject to the suspension, the minister may order the person engaged in business opportunity sales to suspend the business activities conducted by the specified associated corporation for the period equal to the period of the suspension.
主務大臣は、前項前段の規定によりその業務提供誘引販売業に係る業務提供誘引販売取引の停止を命ずる場合において、当該業務提供誘引販売業を行う者が個人であり、かつ、その特定関係法人（業務提供誘引販売業を行う者又はその役員若しくはその使用人（当該命令の日前一年以内において役員又は使用人であつた者を含む。次条第二項において同じ。）が事業経営を実質的に支配する法人その他の政令で定める法人をいう。以下この項及び同条第二項第一号において同じ。）において、当該停止を命ずる範囲の業務提供誘引販売取引に係る業務と同一の業務を行つていると認められるときは、当該業務提供誘引販売業を行う者に対して、当該停止を命ずる期間と同一の期間を定めて、その特定関係法人で行つている当該同一の業務を停止すべきことを命ずることができる。
If a contractor sending email advertising business opportunity sales transactions has violated any of the provisions of Article 54-4, paragraph (1) or Article 54-3, paragraphs (2) through (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-4, paragraph (2), and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to significantly prejudice the fairness of business opportunity sales transactions or the interests of the counterparty to them, or the contractor sending the email advertising the business opportunity sales transactions fails to follow the instructions under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the minister may order the contractor sending email advertising business opportunity sales transactions to suspend its business activities that are connected with email advertising business opportunity sales transactions in whole or in part, during a specified period of no longer than one year.
主務大臣は、業務提供誘引販売取引電子メール広告受託事業者が第五十四条の四第一項若しくは同条第二項において準用する第五十四条の三第二項から第四項までの規定に違反した場合において業務提供誘引販売取引の公正及び業務提供誘引販売取引の相手方の利益が著しく害されるおそれがあると認めるとき、又は業務提供誘引販売取引電子メール広告受託事業者が前条第二項の規定による指示に従わないときは、その業務提供誘引販売取引電子メール広告受託事業者に対し、一年以内の期間を限り、業務提供誘引販売取引電子メール広告に関する業務の全部又は一部を停止すべきことを命ずることができる。
Having issued an order under the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.
Having issued an order under the provisions of paragraph (3), the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.
主務大臣は、第三項の規定による命令をしたときは、その旨を公表しなければならない。