(4) A specified business operator shall, when having become aware of a change or addition to any of the matters listed in paragraph 1, items (xii) to (xvi), attach a supplementary note of the content of the change or addition to the customer identification records, and shall not delete the content already recorded in the customer identification records (excluding the content of any previous change or addition). In this case, the specified business operator may, instead of attaching a supplementary note to the customer identification records, record the content of the change or addition separately and preserve such record together with the customer identification records.

Article 11 (Period for Preserving Customer Identification Records)

(1) The date specified by an ordinance of the competent ministries as prescribed in Article 6, paragraph 2 of the Act shall be the date of the termination of a transaction or the date of the termination of a transaction pertaining to an identified transaction, whichever comes later.

(2) The "date of the termination of a transaction" prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall, according to the following categories of the transactions for which customer identification records have been prepared, be the day specified in the respective items:

(i) Transactions listed in Article 8, paragraph 1, item (i), (a) to (f), (h) to (j), (k) (excluding contracts for acting as an intermediary or agent), (m) (excluding intermediary or agent work), or (n) (excluding intermediary or agent work) or (r) to (u) of the Order, transactions specified in Article 8, paragraph 1, item (ii), item (iii), item (v) or item (vi) of the Order, or transactions specified in Article 10 of the Order (excluding transactions prescribed in Article 11, paragraph 2): the day on which a contract pertaining to the said transaction was terminated

(ii) Transactions listed in Article 8, paragraph 1, item (i), (g), (k) (limited to contracts for acting as an intermediary or agent), (l), (m) (limited to intermediary or agent work), (n) (limited to intermediary or agent work), (o) to (q), or (v) of the Order, transactions specified in Article 8, paragraph 1, item (iv) of the Order, or transactions prescribed in Article 11, paragraph 2: the day on which the said transaction was carried out

(3) The "the date of the termination of a transaction pertaining to an identified transaction" prescribed in paragraph 1, with regard to a transaction specified in the items of Article 8, paragraph 1 of the Order that falls under the category of a transaction with an identified customer, etc., shall be the day specified in the preceding paragraph in the case where the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied by replacing the term "transactions for which customer identification records have been prepared" in the same paragraph with "transactions with an identified customer, etc."

Article 12 (Transactions Excluded from the Scope of Transactions Subject to Obligation to Prepare and Preserve Transaction Records)

The transactions specified by an ordinance of the competent ministries as prescribed in Article 13, paragraph 1, item (iv) of the Order shall be the following:

(i) Transactions carried out between a customer, etc. and another specified business operator via an automated teller machine or any other machine equivalent thereto (excluding the refund of deposits or savings without cash payments for exchange transactions carried out by the said other specified business operator)

(ii) Transactions for receiving periodically a fixed amount of insurance premiums or mutual aid premiums under an insurance contract or a contract for mutual aid

(iii) The selling of a lottery voucher prescribed in Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Lottery Voucher Act (Act No. 144 of 1948) or a sports promotion voting ticket prescribed in Article 2 of the Act on Implementation, etc. of the Sports Promotion Voting (Act No. 63 of 1998) and the provision of the prize money or goods for the lottery voucher or the refund for the sports promotion voting ticket which amounts to not more than two million yen

(iv) The buying and selling of precious metals, etc. prescribed in Article 2, paragraph 2, item (xxxvii) of the Act which amounts to more than two million yen and for which the payment is made through methods other than by cash

(v) Transactions pertaining to the business affairs prescribed in Article 2, paragraph 2, item (xxxvii) of the Act which pertain to those other than a business receiving and delivering postal items (limited to 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