regard to a specified business operator and the Bank of Japan as well as a person equivalent thereto who has his/her head office or principal office in a foreign country (hereinafter referred to as a "foreign specified business operator" in this item) that use a specified communications method (which means an international communications method used between a specified business operator, the Bank of Japan, and a foreign specified business operator, for which necessary measures are taken to identify the specified business operator, the Bank of Japan, and the foreign specified business operator who communicate with each other through the said communications methods) as a customer, etc. and for which verification is made or settlement is directed through the said specified communications method (excluding transactions with a foreign specified business operator who has his/her head office or principal office in a country or region designated by the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency)

(x) Transactions specified in Article 8, paragraph 1, item (ii) of the Order in which the rental fee received at one time by a lessor from a person who receives leasing services is 100,000 yen or less

(xi) Transactions specified in Article 8, paragraph 1, item (v) of the Order in which the payment is made through methods other than by cash

(xii) Transactions specified in Article 8, paragraph 1, item (vi) of the Order which are listed as follows:

(a) Conclusion of a contract including any of the following clauses according to the characteristics of the services to be provided:

1. A clause providing that postal items (which means postal items prescribed in Article 2, paragraph 2, item (xxxviii) of the Act; the same shall apply in 2.) without an address containing a trademark or wording that is easily distinguishable as a specified business operator listed in the same item shall not be received or that the said trademark or wording shall be clarified when receiving telephone calls

2. A clause providing that postal items containing cash or postal items sent from a specified business operator prescribed in Article 26, paragraph 1 of the Act (excluding those that clearly contain no deposit/savings passbooks or deposit/savings withdrawal cards, judging from the description on their face or by their appearances) shall not be received

(b) Conclusion of a contract pertaining to businesses conducted by taking telephone calls (including telecommunications by facsimile devices) for receiving applications for contracts to provide explanations about or consultation on goods, rights, or services or to provide the goods, rights or services or for concluding such contracts

(xiii) Transactions specified in the items of Article 8, paragraph 1 of the Order which are listed as follows:

(a) Transactions with the State or a local public entity as a customer, etc. which are carried out by the officials of the said State or local public entity in charge of the said transaction, based on the authority of the law and in accordance with procedures under the law, and a document by which the said State or local public entity proves that the said officials have the said authority or any other document similar thereto is presented or sent

(b) Transactions carried out by a trustee in bankruptcy or any other person equivalent thereto based on the authority of the law, and a document by which the court proves the appointment of the person or any other document similar thereto is presented or sent

(2) The transactions specified by an ordinance of the competent ministries as prescribed in Article 10 of the Order shall be the following transactions:

(i) Conclusion of a voluntary guardianship contract prescribed in Article 2, item (i) of the Act on Voluntary Guardianship Contract (Act No. 150 of 1999), which falls under the conclusion of a contract for carrying out agent work, etc. for specified mandated acts prescribed in Article 10 of the Order

(ii) Transactions listed in item (xiii), (a) or (b) of the preceding paragraph, which falls under the conclusion of a contract prescribed in the preceding item

Article 7 (Methods for Verifying Previous Identification of Customer, etc.)

(1) The methods specified by an ordinance of the competent ministries as prescribed in Article 11, paragraph 1 of the Order shall be the methods listed in any of the following items for verifying that the customer, etc. (in the case where the customer, etc. is the State, etc., a deemed-customer, etc. or the said State, etc. (excluding those listed in Article 12, item (iii) of the Order); hereinafter the same shall apply in this Article) is identical to the customer, etc. recorded in the customer identification records (lim