## Article 25

A person who has violated Article 4, paragraph 4 for the purpose of concealing customer identification data shall be punished by a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.

## Article 26

(1) A person who has, in the guise of another person, with the intention of receiving the services pertaining to a deposit/savings contract with a specified business operator (limited to those listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, items (i) to (xv) and item (xxxiii); hereinafter the same shall apply in this Article) or having a third party receive such services, received the assignment, delivery or provision of the deposit/savings passbook, the deposit/savings withdrawal card, the information necessary for deposit/savings withdrawal or transfer or other items specified by a Cabinet Order as necessary for receiving the services pertaining to a deposit/savings contract with a specified business operator (hereinafter referred to as a "deposit/savings passbook, etc.") shall be punished by a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. The same shall apply to a person who has received the assignment, delivery or provision of a deposit/savings passbook, etc. for value without justifiable reasons such that the assignment, delivery or provision accompanies an ordinary commercial transaction or financial transaction.

(2) The preceding paragraph shall also apply to a person who has assigned, delivered or provided a deposit/savings passbook, etc. to another person for value while knowing that such other person has the intention prescribed in the first sentence of the same paragraph. The same shall apply to a person who has assigned, delivered or provided a deposit/savings passbook, etc. for value without justifiable reasons such that the assignment, delivery or provision accompanies an ordinary commercial transaction or financial transaction.

(3) A person who has committed, as a business, the crime prescribed in any of the preceding two paragraphs shall be punished by imprisonment with work for not more than two years or a fine of not more than three million yen, or both.

(4) Paragraph 1 shall also apply to a person who has solicited people or induced people by advertising or other similar methods to commit the crime prescribed in paragraph 1 or paragraph 2.

## Article 27

Where the representative person of a legal person or an agent, employee or other worker of a legal person or an individual has, with regard to the business of the legal person or individual, committed the violations prescribed in the following items, not only shall the offender be punished but also the legal person shall be punished by the fine prescribed in the respective items or the individual shall be punished by the fine prescribed in the respective Articles:

(i) Article 23: fine of not more than 300 million yen

(ii) Article 24: fine of not more than 200 million yen

(iii) Article 25: fine prescribed in the same Article

## Article 28 (Application Mutatis Mutandis of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act)

The provisions of Chapter 9 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to the cases concerning the crimes prescribed in Article 25 and item (iii) of the preceding Article with regard to the acts listed in the items of Article 20, paragraph 6.

## Supplementary Provisions

Article 1 (Effective Date)

This Act shall come into effect as from April 1, 2007; provided, however, that the provisions listed in the following items shall come into force as from the dates prescribed in the respective items:

(i) The provisions of Article 2, paragraph 2 (excluding item (xxii) and item (xxiv)), Articles 4 to 10 and Articles 13 to 28; the provisions of the following Article, Articles 5 to 7 of the Supplementary Provisions, Articles 9 to 12 of the Supplementary Provisions, and Articles 14 to 18 of the Supplementary Provisions; the provisions of Article 19 of the Supplementary Provisions revising Article 189 and Article 190 of the Act Concerning Preparation of Relevant Acts Accompanying Effectuation of the Act for Partial Revision of the Securities and Exchange Act, etc. (Act No. 66 of 2006); the provisions of Article 19 of the