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Article 57-2Prohibition of Business of Officers

第五十七条の二(役員等に対する業務の禁止等)

If the competent minister orders a person engaged in business opportunity sales to suspend the business opportunity sales transactions connected with business opportunity sales 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 is a person specified by order of the competent ministry as one whose business opportunity sales transactions 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 related to business opportunity sales transactions 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 the 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に対して前条第一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、次の各号に掲げる場合の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める者が当該命令の理由となつた事実及び当該事実に関してその者が有していた責任の程度を考慮して当該命令の実効性を確保するためにその者による業務提供誘引販売取引に係る業務を制限することが相当と認められる者として主務省令で定める者に該当するときは、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新たに開始すること(当該業務を営む法人の当該業務を担当する役員となることを含む。)の禁止を命ずることができる。

if the person engaged in business opportunity sales is a corporation: its officer or a person who was its officer within one year before the date of the order, or its employee or a person who was its employee within one year before the date of the order; or

当該業務提供誘引販売業を行う者が法人である場合 その役員及び当該命令の日前一年以内においてその役員であつた者並びにその使用人及び当該命令の日前一年以内においてその使用人であつた者

if the person engaged in business opportunity sales is an individual: an employee or a person who was an employee within one year before the date of the order.

当該業務提供誘引販売業を行う者が個人である場合 その使用人及び当該命令の日前一年以内においてその使用人であつた者

When 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.

主務大臣は、前項の規定により業務の禁止を命ずる役員又は使用人が、次の各号に掲げる者に該当するときは、当該役員又は当該使用人に対して、当該禁止を命ずる期間と同一の期間を定めて、その行つている当該各号に規定する同一の業務を停止すべきことを命ずることができる。

a person who is found to be engaged in the same business as the business related to business opportunity sales transactions on a scope for which prohibition is ordered by the order at a specified associated corporation of a person engaged in business opportunity sales who is found to have committed the act constituting the grounds for the order; or

当該命令の理由となつた行為をしたと認められる業務提供誘引販売業を行う者の特定関係法人において、当該命令により禁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者

a person who is found to be engaged in the same business as the business related to a business opportunity sales transaction on a scope for which prohibition is ordered by the order as a person engaged in business opportunity sales.

自ら業務提供誘引販売業を行う者として当該命令により禁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者

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

主務大臣は、前二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。

Article 58Cancellation of a Business Opportunity Sales Contract

第五十八条(業務提供誘引販売契約の解除)

When a person engaged in business opportunity sales has entered into a business opportunity sales contract connected with business opportunity sales, the counterparty to the contract (limited to an individual who engages in business activities that are provided or arranged in connection with those business opportunity sales, without using a place of business or similar facility; hereinafter referred to as the "counterparty" in this Article through Article 58-3) may cancel the opportunity sales contract in writing or through electronic or magnetic records, except when 20 days have passed after the date on which the counterparty received the document referred to in Article 55, paragraph (2) (if the counterparty does not cancel the business opportunity sales contract under the provisions of this paragraph by that time limit because the counterparty was under the misconception that the information about canceling a business opportunity sales contract under the provisions of this paragraph that the person engaged in business opportunity sales had misrepresented to the counterparty, in violation of the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1), was true, or because the counterparty was overwhelmed due to intimidation by the person engaged in business opportunity sales, in violation of the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (2), except when 20 days have passed after the date on which the counterparty received a document delivered to them by the person engaged in business opportunity sales that contains a notice to the effect that the counterparty may cancel the business opportunity sales contract under the provisions of this paragraph, pursuant to order of the competent ministry). In this case, the person engaged in business opportunity sales may not claim damages or demand the payment of any penalty in connection with the cancellation of the business opportunity sales contract.

業務提供誘引販売業を行う者がその業務提供誘引販売業に係る業務提供誘引販売契約を締結した場合におけるその業務提供誘引販売契約の相手方(その業務提供誘引販売業に関して提供され、又はあつせんされる業務を事業所等によらないで行う個人に限る。以下この条から第五十八条の三までにおいて「相手方」という。)は、第五十五条第二項の書面を受領した日から起算して二十日を経過したとき(相手方が、業務提供誘引販売業を行う者が第五十二条第一項の規定に違反してこの項の規定による業務提供誘引販売契約の解除に関する事項につき不実のことを告げる行為をしたことにより当該告げられた内容が事実であるとの誤認をし、又は業務提供誘引販売業を行う者が同条第二項の規定に違反して威迫したことにより困惑し、これらによつて当該期間を経過するまでにこの項の規定による業務提供誘引販売契約の解除を行わなかつた場合には、相手方が、当該業務提供誘引販売業を行う者が主務省令で定めるところによりこの項の規定による当該業務提供誘引販売契約の解除を行うことができる旨を記載して交付した書面を受領した日から起算して二十日を経過したとき)を除き、書面又は電磁的記録によりその業務提供誘引販売契約の解除を行うことができる。この場合において、その業務提供誘引販売業を行う者は、その業務提供誘引販売契約の解除に伴う損害賠償又は違約金の支払を請求することができない。

The cancellation of a business opportunity sales contract as referred to in the preceding paragraph takes effect at the time the counterparty states in writing or through a notification by electronic or magnetic records that it is canceling the business opportunity sales contract.

前項の業務提供誘引販売契約の解除は、その業務提供誘引販売契約の解除を行う旨の書面又は電磁的記録による通知を発した時に、その効力を生ずる。

If a business opportunity sales contract is canceled as referred to in paragraph (1), the person conducting business opportunity sales bears the costs required for taking back any goods already delivered under the business opportunity sales contract.

第一項の業務提供誘引販売契約の解除があつた場合において、その業務提供誘引販売契約に係る商品の引渡しが既にされているときは、その引取りに要する費用は、その業務提供誘引販売業を行う者の負担とする。

Any special provisions of a contract that run counter to the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs and that are disadvantageous to the counterparty are hereby invalidated.

前三項の規定に反する特約でその相手方に不利なものは、無効とする。

Article 58-2Retraction of the Manifestation of an Intention to Offer to Enter into or Accept a Business Opportunity Sales Contract

第五十八条の二(業務提供誘引販売契約の申込み又はその承諾の意思表示の取消し)

If a counterparty was under a misconception specified in one of the following items as a result of the person engaged in business opportunity sales having engaged in the conduct listed in in soliciting the counterparty to enter into a business opportunity sales contract connected with business opportunity sales, because of which the counterparty manifested the intention to offer to enter into or accept a business opportunity sales contract, the counterparty may retract the manifestation of that intention to offer to enter into or accept the contract:

相手方は、業務提供誘引販売業を行う者がその業務提供誘引販売業に係る業務提供誘引販売契約の締結について勧誘をするに際し次の各号に掲げる行為をしたことにより、当該各号に定める誤認をし、それによつて当該業務提供誘引販売契約の申込み又はその承諾の意思表示をしたときは、これを取り消すことができる。

a misrepresentation in violation of the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1):the misapprehension that the information being represented was true; or

第五十二条第一項の規定に違反して不実のことを告げる行為 当該告げられた内容が事実であるとの誤認

the intentional failure to disclose a fact, in violation of the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1):the misconception that the relevant fact did not exist.

第五十二条第一項の規定に違反して故意に事実を告げない行為 当該事実が存在しないとの誤認

The provisions of Article 9-3, paragraphs (2) through (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the retraction, under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, of the manifestation of the intention to offer to enter into or accept a business opportunity sales contract.

第九条の三第二項から第五項までの規定は、前項の規定による業務提供誘引販売契約の申込み又はその承諾の意思表示の取消しについて準用する。

Article 58-3Limitation on the Amount of Damages for Canceling or Defaulting on a Business Opportunity Sales Contract

第五十八条の三(業務提供誘引販売契約の解除等に伴う損害賠償等の額の制限)

If a person engaged in business opportunity sales has entered into a business opportunity sales connected with business opportunity sales, and the business opportunity sales contract is canceled, the person engaged in business opportunity sales may not demand that the counterparty pay an amount of money that exceeds the aggregate of the amount specified in the relevant items among the following items for the event listed in them and the amount of the relevant damages for delay based on the statutory interest rate, even if there is a provision for liquidated damages or a provision for a penalty:

業務提供誘引販売業を行う者は、その業務提供誘引販売業に係る業務提供誘引販売契約の締結をした場合において、その業務提供誘引販売契約が解除されたときは、損害賠償額の予定又は違約金の定めがあるときにおいても、次の各号に掲げる場合に応じ当該各号に定める額にこれに対する法定利率による遅延損害金の額を加算した金額を超える額の金銭の支払をその相手方に対して請求することができない。

if the goods (this excludes rights to use a facility or to be provided with services; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) or the rights are returned: the amount constituting the normal charges for use of the goods or the amount equal to the profit that can normally be earned through the exercise of the rights (or the amount equal to the sales price of the goods or rights less the value of those goods or rights at the time of their return, if this exceeds the amount constituting the normal charges for use of the goods or the amount equal to the profit that can normally be earned through the exercise of the rights);

当該商品(施設を利用し及び役務の提供を受ける権利を除く。以下この項において同じ。)又は当該権利が返還された場合 当該商品の通常の使用料の額又は当該権利の行使により通常得られる利益に相当する額(当該商品又は当該権利の販売価格に相当する額から当該商品又は当該権利の返還された時における価額を控除した額が通常の使用料の額又は当該権利の行使により通常得られる利益に相当する額を超えるときは、その額)

if the goods or the rights are not returned: the amount equal to the sales price of the goods or the rights;

当該商品又は当該権利が返還されない場合 当該商品又は当該権利の販売価格に相当する額

if the business opportunity sales contract is canceled after the services started to be provided: the amount equal to the consideration for the provided services; or

当該業務提供誘引販売契約の解除が当該役務の提供の開始後である場合 提供された当該役務の対価に相当する額

if the business opportunity sales contract is canceled prior to the start of the delivery of the goods or the transfer of the rights or the provision of the services: the amount of costs normally required for entering into and performing a contract.

当該業務提供誘引販売契約の解除が当該商品の引渡し若しくは当該権利の移転又は当該役務の提供の開始前である場合 契約の締結及び履行のために通常要する費用の額

If a person engaged in business opportunity sales has entered into a business opportunity sales contract connected with business opportunity sales, and the obligation to pay the charges for the goods or the consideration for the services under the business opportunity sales contract is not performed in whole or in part (excluding if the business opportunity sales contract has been canceled), the person engaged in business opportunity sales may not demand that the counterparty pay an amount of money that exceeds the aggregate of the amount equal to the sales price of the goods or rights or the consideration for the services less the already-paid amount of charges for the goods or consideration for the services plus the amount of any damages for delay based on the statutory interest rate, even if there is a provision for liquidated damages or a provision for a penalty.

業務提供誘引販売業を行う者は、その業務提供誘引販売業に係る業務提供誘引販売契約の締結をした場合において、その業務提供誘引販売契約に係る商品の代金又は役務の対価の全部又は一部の支払の義務が履行されない場合(業務提供誘引販売契約が解除された場合を除く。)には、損害賠償額の予定又は違約金の定めがあるときにおいても、当該商品の販売価格又は当該役務の対価に相当する額から既に支払われた当該商品の代金又は当該役務の対価の額を控除した額にこれに対する法定利率による遅延損害金の額を加算した金額を超える額の金銭の支払を相手方に対して請求することができない。

The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply to goods or services connected with business opportunity sales transactions that are sold or provided through installment sales.

前二項の規定は、業務提供誘引販売取引に係る商品又は役務を割賦販売により販売し又は提供するものについては、適用しない。

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