# 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 / Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds — 第五条 (Article 5)

- Law: 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 (Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds), 平成十九年法律第二十二号
- English title "Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds": claude-opus-5-5
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第五条 (Article 5)（特定事業者の免責） — address `art-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000022/art-5
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### 第五条（特定事業者の免責） — Exemption of Specified Business Operators
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000022/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  特定事業者は、顧客等又は代表者等が特定取引等を行う際に取引時確認に応じないときは、当該顧客等又は代表者等がこれに応ずるまでの間、当該特定取引等に係る義務の履行を拒むことができる。
<sup>art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000022/art-5/par-1</sup>
When a customer, etc. or representative, etc. does not comply with verification at the time of transaction upon conducting a specified transaction, etc., the specified business operator may refuse to perform the obligations relating to that specified transaction, etc. until that customer, etc. or representative, etc. complies.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 第十二条第二項（弁護士等による取引時確認等に相当する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000022/art-12/par-2

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-10-12
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/419AC0000000022/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-11
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch criminal-proceeds-act-20261011T155627-003, translated 2026-10-11
- This site's parser, version 189 — 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11
