If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of electronic payment handling services by an electronic payment handling service provider, the Prime Minister may have relevant officials enter the business office or any other facilities of the electronic payment handling service provider, have those officials ask questions about the status of their business or property, and have them inspect their books, documents and any other articles.
If an entry into facilities is to be made, and questioning or inspection is to be conducted, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly necessary, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, have relevant officials enter the facilities of a person conducting transactions with the electronic payment handling service provider that are related to electronic payment handling services or of a person that the electronic payment handling service provider has entrusted with its electronic payment handling services, have those officials ask that person questions about any particulars that are required to be asked in relation to the questioning or inspection of the electronic payment handling service provider, or have them inspect that person's books, documents and any other articles.
In the cases referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the relevant official must carry an identification card, and must present it if a person concerned requests them to do so.
前二項の場合において、当該職員は、その身分を示す証明書を携帯し、関係人の請求があつたときは、これを提示しなければならない。
The authority under the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) must not be construed as being granted for criminal investigation purposes.
The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the questioning and inspection of the person conducting transactions with an electronic payment handling service provider that are connected with electronic payment handling services or of the person that the electronic payment handling service provider has entrusted with its electronic payment handling services, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2).