If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of electronic payment services by an electronic payment service provider, the Prime Minister may have relevant officials enter the business office, office, or any other facilities of the electronic payment service provider, have those officials ask questions about the status of their business or property, or have them inspect the service provider's 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, when 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 service provider that are related to electronic payment services or of a person that the electronic payment service provider has entrusted with its electronic payment services, have those officials ask questions about any particulars that are required to be asked in relation to the questioning or inspection of the electronic payment service provider, or have them inspect their 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 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 service provider that are connected with its electronic payment services or of the person that the electronic payment service provider has entrusted with electronic payment services, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2).
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(Making Reports or Submitting Materials)
A person conducting transactions with an electronic payment service provider related to its electronic payment services or a person that an electronic payment service provider has entrusted with its…
電子決済等代行業者と電子決済等代行業の業務に関して取引する者又は電子決済等代行業者から電子決済等代行業の業務の委託を受けた者は、正当な理由があるときは、前項の規定による報告又は資料の提出を拒むことができる。
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If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of electronic payment services by an electronic payment service provider…
内閣総理大臣は、電子決済等代行業者の電子決済等代行業の健全かつ適切な運営を確保するため必要があると認めるときは、当該職員に当該電子決済等代行業者の営業所若しくは事務所その他の施設に立ち入らせ、その業務若しくは財産の状況に関し質問させ、又は帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。
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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, when the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly…
内閣総理大臣は、前項の規定による立入り、質問又は検査を行う場合において、特に必要があると認めるときは、その必要の限度において、当該職員に電子決済等代行業者と電子決済等代行業の業務に関して取引する者若しくは電子決済等代行業者から電子決済等代行業の業務の委託を受けた者の施設に立ち入らせ…
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「電子決済等代行業」
The business of passing on to a bank, on a depositor's behalf and through an electronic data processing system, the depositor's instructions to move funds from their account, or of obtaining a depositor's account information from the bank and providing it to them, excluding acts set by Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) as unlikely to harm users, such as instructions for a depositor's regular payments to a particular person.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (21)· applies throughout the law
electronic payment service provider
「電子決済等代行業者」
A person registered under Article 52-61-2 that carries on electronic payment services (電子決済等代行業).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (22)· applies throughout the law
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.