or representative person, etc., instead of sending the documents pertaining to the transaction by registered mail, etc. as a postal item requiring no forwarding, etc.

(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraphs, with regard to transactions with the customer, etc. in the case where the term "identification" in the provisions of the items of Article 11, paragraph 1 of the Order is replaced with "identification equivalent to customer identification which was previously conducted on carrying out a transaction other than specified transactions (including those pertaining to business affairs other than specified business affairs prescribed in Article 4, paragraph 1 of the Act)" and the term "customer identification records" is replaced with "records equivalent to customer identification records," a specified business operator may verify that the identification equivalent to customer identification has already been conducted by a method prescribed in Article 7, paragraph 1 and may conduct the identification by way of preserving records equivalent to customer identification records as the customer identification records; provided, however, that this shall not apply to transactions equivalent to those listed in the items of Article 11, paragraph 2 of the Order.

## Article 4 (Identification Documents)

The documents to be presented or sent to a specified business operator by the method prescribed in paragraph 1 of the preceding Article shall, according to the categories listed in the following items, be the documents specified in the respective items; provided, however, that the identification documents listed in item (i), (c) to (e) as well as the identification documents specified in item (iii), identification documents listed in item (i), (f) and (g), item (ii), (b) for which a valid period or expiration date is set, and the identification documents specified in item (iv) shall be limited to those which are valid as of the day on which the documents are presented to or received by the specified business operator, and any other identification documents shall be limited to those prepared not more than six months before the day on which they are presented to or received by the specified business operator:

(i) A natural person (excluding those listed in items (iii) and (iv)): any of the following documents:

(a) A seal registration certificate concerning the seal affixed by the customer, etc. to the document of application or consent for carrying out a specified transaction

(b) A seal registration certificate (excluding that listed in (a)), a copy of an alien registration book, a certificate of the matters recorded in an alien registration book (which means a document prepared by the head of a local public entity to prove the matters recorded in an alien registration card), a transcript of or extract from a family register (limited to those accompanied by a copy of an appended card to the family register), a copy of a resident registration book or a certificate of the matters recorded in a resident registration book (which means a document prepared by the head of a local public entity to prove the name, address and other matters of an individual recorded in the basic resident register)

(c) An insurance certificate of National Health Insurance or other health insurance, seamen's insurance or long-term care insurance, the page of a health handbook prescribed in Article 13 of the Health Service Act for the Elderly (Act No. 80 of 1982) that proves the qualification for receiving medical care, a special insurance certificate for a day worker under the Health Insurance Act, a membership certificate of a national public service personnel mutual aid association or local public service personnel mutual aid association or a membership certificate of the mutual aid system for private school personnel (limited to those indicating the name, residence, and date of birth of the said natural person)

(d) A national pension handbook prescribed in Article 13, paragraph 1 of the National Pension Act, a certificate of child-rearing allowance, a certificate of special child-rearing allowance, a maternal and child health handbook, a physically disabled person's handbook, a mentally disabled person's health and welfare handbook, a rehabilitation handbook or a war injury and sickness handbook (limited to those indicating the name, residence, and date of birth of the said natural person)

(e) A driver's license prescribed in Article 92, paragraph 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Act No. 105 of 1960), a certificate of alien registration prescribed in Article 5, paragraph 1 of the Alien Registration Act (Act No. 125 of 1952), a basic resident register card prescribed in Article 30-44, paragraph 1 of the Basic Resident Register Act (Act No. 81 of 1967) (limited to those indicating the name, residence, and date of birth of the said natural person) or a passport, etc.

(f) In addition to what is listed in (a) to (e), a document issued by a public agency or another document similar thereto, which indicates the name, residence, and date of birth of the said natural person, and to which the public agency has affixed a photograph of the said natural person

(g) In addition to what is listed in (a) to (f), a document issued by a public agency or another document similar thereto, which