①Except in the following cases, an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor must not advertise multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by that orchestrator via email without the consent of the advertising target:

②An orchestrator, solicitor, or general multilevel marketing distributor that has obtained the consent prescribed in the preceding paragraph or that has received a request provided in item (i) of that paragraph must not send email advertising multilevel marketing transactions to an advertising target if the target of the email advertising multilevel marketing transactions indicates an unwillingness to receive email advertising multilevel marketing transactions; provided, however, that this does not apply if the orchestrator, the solicitor, or the general multilevel marketing distributor later receives a request from the advertising target or regains the consent of the advertising target to send email advertising multilevel marketing transactions.

③Except in the case stated in paragraph (1), item (ii), when sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor must prepare what is specified by order of the competent ministry as a record of having obtained the consent of the advertising target or having received a request from the advertising target to send email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, and must preserve the records pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry.

④Except in the case stated in paragraph (1), item (ii), when sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry, in its email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor must indicate information that is specified by order of the competent ministry as the information that an advertising target needs to have in order to indicate an unwillingness to receive email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, in addition to the matters listed in the items of Article 35.

⑤If an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor has comprehensively entrusted another person with all of the following business activities, the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply to any email advertising multilevel marketing transactions subject to that entrustment:

①Except in the following cases, a person comprehensively entrusted with all of the business activities listed in the items of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article by an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor (a person so entrusted is hereinafter referred to as a "contractor sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions" in this Chapter and Article 66, paragraph (6) and Article 67, paragraph (1), item (iv)) must not send email advertising multilevel marketing transactions for multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by the orchestrator, that are carried out by the orchestrator, the solicitor, or the general multilevel marketing distributor that entrusted the contractor with those business activities (hereinafter referred to as the "party entrusting a contractor with email advertising its multilevel marketing transactions" in this Article), without the consent of the advertising target:

②The provisions of paragraphs (2) through (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the email advertising the multilevel marketing transactions of a party entrusting a contractor with email advertising its multilevel marketing transactions by a contractor sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions .In this case, the phrase "paragraph (1), item (ii)" in paragraphs (3) and (4) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1), item (ii) of the following Article".

①When a person carrying on a multilevel marketing undertaking (if a person other than a person carrying on a multilevel marketing undertaking will enter into a contract concerning the specified burden involved in multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with that multilevel marketing undertaking, the person entering into the contract; the same applies in paragraph (3)) seeks to enter into a contract concerning the specified burden involved in multilevel marketing transactions with a person seeking to bear that specified burden (limited to an individual who will sell or arrange the sale of goods associated with that multilevel marketing undertaking or will provide or arrange for providing services associated with its multilevel marketing undertaking, without using a store or similar facility), the person carrying on that multilevel marketing undertaking must deliver to that person a document containing an outline of its multilevel marketing undertaking pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry before entering into that contract.

②If a person carrying on a multilevel marketing undertaking has entered into a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the person's multilevel marketing undertaking (hereinafter referred to as a "multilevel marketing contract" in this Chapter), and the counterparty to the multilevel marketing contract is an individual who sells or arranges the sale of goods associated with that multilevel marketing undertaking or provides or arranges for providing services associated with that multilevel marketing undertaking without using a store or similar facility, the person engaged in multilevel marketing must deliver to that person a document containing the details of that multilevel marketing contract with respect to the following information without delay, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry:

③In place of the delivery in writing under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, a person engaged in multilevel marketing may provide the information that should be described in the documents by an electronic or magnetic means, after gaining the consent of a person who seeks to execute the specified burden involved in the multilevel marketing transactions or a counterparty to the multilevel marketing contract, pursuant to Cabinet Order. In this case, the person engaged in the multilevel marketing is deemed to have delivered the documents.

④The provision of information that is to be described in documents under paragraph (2) as specified in the first sentence of the previous paragraph through electronic or magnetic means (excluding means specified by ordinance of the competent ministry) is deemed to have been made to the counterparty to the multilevel marketing contract when the information is recorded in a file stored on the computer used by the counterparty to the multilevel marketing contract.

①If an orchestrator has violated any of the provisions of Article 33-2, Article 34, paragraph (1), (3), or (4), Article 35, Article 36, Article 36-3 (excluding paragraph (5)), or Article 37, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) or has engaged in any of the following conduct, or if a solicitor has violated any of the provisions of Article 33-2, Article 34, paragraph (1), (3), or (4), Article 35, Article 36, or Article 36-3 (excluding paragraph (5)) or has engaged in any of the conduct listed in items (ii) through (iv) of this paragraph, and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to prejudice the fairness of multilevel marketing transactions and the interests of the counterparty to them, the minister may instruct the orchestrator to take measures for correcting the violation or conduct, measures for protecting the interests of the counterparty to the multilevel marketing transactions, or any other necessary measures:

②If a solicitor has violated any of the provisions of Article 33-2, Article 34, paragraph (1), (3), or (4), Article 35, Article 36, Article 36-3 (excluding paragraph (5)), or Article 37, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) or has engaged in any of the conduct listed in the items of the preceding paragraph, and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to prejudice the fairness of multilevel marketing transactions and the interests of the counterparty to them, the minister may instruct the solicitor to take measures for correcting the violation or conduct, measures for protecting the interests of the counterparty to multilevel marketing transactions, and any other necessary measures.

③If a general multilevel marketing distributor has violated any of the provisions of Article 33-2, Article 34, paragraphs (2) through (4), Article 35, Article 36, Article 36-3 (excluding paragraph (5)), or Article 37, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) or has engaged in any of the conduct listed in the following items, and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to prejudice the fairness of multilevel marketing transactions and the interests of the counterparty to them, the minister may instruct the general multilevel marketing distributor to take measures for correcting the violation or conduct, measures for protecting the interests of the counterparty to multilevel marketing transactions, or any other necessary measures:

④If a contractor sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions has violated any of the provisions of Article 36-4, paragraph (1) or Article 36-3, paragraphs (2) through (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 36-4, paragraph (2), and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to prejudice the fairness of multilevel marketing transactions and the interests of the counterparty to them, the minister may instruct the contractor sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions to take any necessary measures.

⑤Having given an instruction under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3), the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.

⑥Having given an instruction under the provisions of paragraph (4), the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.