①When a service provider or a seller conducts prepaid transactions during the provision of specified continuous services (meaning a transaction connected with the provision of specified continuous services where the service provider or the seller receives an amount of money exceeding an amount specified by Cabinet Order from the counterparty prior to the provision of specified continuous services; the same applies in the following paragraph), it must keep documents describing its business and financial status at the office where it carries out business activities that are connected to a contract for specified continuous service or sale of specified rights, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry.

②The counterparty to a prepaid transaction connected with the provision of specified continuous services may ask to inspect the documents prescribed in the preceding paragraph or may pay the fee specified by the service provider or the seller under the paragraph and may request to be issued a certified copy or extract of the documents.

①If a service provider or a seller has violated any of the provisions of Article 42, paragraphs (1) through (3), Article 43, 44, or 45 or has engaged in any of the following conduct, and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to prejudice the fairness of a transaction connected with the provision of specified continuous services and the interests of a person entering into a specified continuous service contract and receiving specified continuous services or a person purchasing the rights to be provided with specified continuous services after entering into a sales contract for specified rights (hereinafter referred to as the "service recipient or purchaser" in this Chapter), the minister may instruct the service provider or the seller to take measures for correcting the violation or conduct, measures for protecting the interests of the service recipient or purchaser, and any other necessary measures:

②Having given an instruction under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.

①If a service provider or a seller has violated any of the provisions of Article 42, paragraphs (1) through (3), Article 43, 44, or 45 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 a transaction connected with the provision of a specified continuous service and the interests of the service recipient or purchaser or the service provider or the seller fails to follow the instructions under the provisions of that paragraph, the minister may order the service provider or the seller to suspend its business activities that are connected with the provision of specified continuous services in whole or in part, during a specified period of no longer than two years. In this case, if the service provider or the seller is an individual, the minister may also prohibit the individual from becoming an officer in charge of business activities that are subject to the suspension at a corporation that engages in those business activities for a period equal to the period of the suspension.

②When the competent minister orders suspension of a business pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of the preceding paragraph, and when the service provider or seller is an individual and a specified associated corporation of them (meaning a corporation whose business management is substantially controlled by a service provider or seller, or an officer or employee of them (including a person who was officer or employee within a one-year period 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) and is found to conduct business activities equal to the business activities on the scope subject to the suspension, the minister may order the service provider or seller to suspend the business activities conducted by the specified associated corporation for the period equal to the period of the suspension.

③Having issued an order under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.

①If the competent minister orders a service provider or a seller to suspend its business activities pursuant to the first sentence of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and a person that the relevant items among the following items prescribe for the category of the case stated in that item is a person specified by order of the competent ministry as one whose provision of specified continuous services should be restricted so as to ensure the effectiveness of the order in consideration of the facts constituting the grounds for the order and the extent of the responsibility that the person had for those facts, the minister may prohibit the person from commencing new business activities that fall within the scope of the suspension (including becoming an officer in charge of the relevant business activities of a corporation that engages in that business activities) for a period equal to the period of that suspension:

②When the competent minister prohibits business activities of an officer or employee pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and the officer or employee falls under any of the following items, the minister may order the officer or employee to suspend the same business activities conducted by it and provided for in the items for a period equal to the period of the prohibition.

③Having issued an order under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.

①If a service provider or a seller has entered into a contract for specified continuous service or sale of specified rights, the service recipient or purchaser may cancel the contract in writing or through electronic or magnetic records, except when eight days have passed after the date on which the service recipient or purchaser received the document referred to in Article 42, paragraph (2) or (3) (if the service recipient or purchaser did not cancel the contract under this paragraph by that time limit because the service recipient or purchaser was under the misconception that information about the cancellation of the contract under the provisions of this paragraph that the service provider or the seller had misrepresented to the service recipient or purchaser, in violation of the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1), was true, or because the service recipient or purchaser was overwhelmed due to the service provider's or the seller's use of intimidation, in violation of the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (3), once eight days have passed after the date on which the service recipient or purchaser received a document delivered to them by the service provider or the seller pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry that contains a notice to the effect that the service recipient or purchaser may cancel the contract under the provisions of this paragraph).

②If a contract for specified continuous service or sale of specified rights has been canceled under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the service provider or the seller has sold, acted as an agent for the sale of, or arranged the sale of goods specified by Cabinet Order as goods that a service recipient or purchaser needs to purchase at the time the service recipient or purchaser is provided with specified continuous services (hereinafter referred to as "related goods" in this Chapter and Article 58-22, paragraph (2), Article 58-26, paragraph (1), and Article 66, paragraph (2)), the provisions of the preceding paragraph also apply to any contract connected with the sale of the goods (hereinafter referred to as a "sales contract for related goods" in this Article, the following Article and Article 58-22, paragraph (2)); provided, however, that this does not apply if, in spite of having received the document referred to in Article 42, paragraph (2) or (3), the service recipient or purchaser has used or consumed in whole or in part related goods specified by Cabinet Order as having a value that is likely to decline significantly through their use or partial consumption (excluding the case where the service provider or the seller induced the service recipient or purchaser to use or consume the related goods in whole or in part).

③The cancellation of a contract for specified continuous service or sale of specified rights and the cancellation of a sales contract for related goods under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs take effect at the time the service recipient or purchaser states in writing or through a notification with electronic or magnetic records that the service recipient or purchaser is canceling each of them.

④If a contract for specified continuous service or sale of specified rights is canceled under the provisions of paragraph (1) or if a sales contract for related goods is canceled under the provisions of paragraph (2), the service provider or the seller may not claim damages or demand the payment of any penalty in connection with the cancellation.

⑤If a sales contract for specified rights is canceled under the provisions of paragraph (1) or if a sales contract for related goods is canceled under the provisions of paragraph (2), the seller or the person selling the related goods bears the costs required for taking back or returning any rights already transferred under the sales contract for specified rights or any related goods already delivered under the sales contract for related goods.

⑥If a contract for specified continuous service or sale of specified rights is canceled under the provisions of paragraph (1), the service provider or the seller may not demand that the service recipient or purchaser pay consideration or any other money for specified continuous services under the contract, even if specified continuous services have already been provided based on that contract.

⑦If a specified continuous service contract is canceled under the provisions of paragraph (1), the service provider must promptly return any money the service provider has received in association with the specified continuous service contract to the recipient of the specified continuous services.

⑧Any special provisions of a contract that run counter to the provisions of the preceding paragraphs and that are disadvantageous to the service recipient or purchaser are hereby invalidated.