records, etc. shall be prescribed by the rules of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, in line with cases of a specified business operator listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, items (xl) to (xiii).

(2) The provisions of Article 5 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the measures equivalent to customer identification conducted by a lawyer, etc. pursuant to the provisions of the rules of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations prescribed under the preceding paragraph.

(3) The government and the Japan Federation of Bar Associations shall cooperate with each other to prevent the transfer of criminal proceeds.

### Article 9 (Reporting of Suspicious Transactions, etc.)

(1) A specified business operator (excluding those listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, items (xl) to (xliii)) shall, when property accepted through specified business affairs is suspected to have been criminal proceeds or a customer, etc. is suspected to have been conducting acts constituting crimes set forth in Article 10 of the Act on the Punishment of Organized Crime or crimes set forth in Article 6 of the Anti-Drug Special Provisions Law with regard to specified business affairs, promptly report the matters specified by a Cabinet Order to a competent administrative agency, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order.

(2) A specified business operator (including the officers and employees thereof) shall not divulge the fact that he/she is intending to make or has made a report under the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "report of suspicious transactions") to the customer, etc. pertaining to the said report of suspicious transactions or persons related to the customer etc..

(3) A competent administrative agency (limited to prefectural governors or prefectural Public Safety Commissions) shall, when having received a report of suspicious transactions, promptly notify the matters pertaining to the said report of suspicious transactions to the competent minister(s).

(4) A competent administrative agency (excluding prefectural governors and prefectural Public Safety Commissions) or the competent minister(s) set forth in the preceding paragraph (excluding the National Public Safety Commission) shall, when having received a report of suspicious transactions or notification set forth in the same paragraph, promptly notify the matters pertaining to the said report of suspicious transactions or notification to the National Public Safety Commission.

Article 10 (Obligation of Notification pertaining to Foreign Exchange Transactions)

(1) In the case where a specified business operator (limited to those listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, items (i) to (xv); hereinafter the same shall apply in this Article) conducts exchange transactions (excluding those by way of writing checks or by other means specified by a Cabinet Order) pertaining to payment from Japan to foreign countries (which means countries and regions outside Japan and excludes countries and regions specified by a Cabinet Order; hereinafter the same shall apply in this Article) with a customer, and when the said specified business operator entrusts the said payment to another specified business operator or an exchange dealer residing in a foreign country (which means a person who resides in a foreign country and conducts exchange transactions as a business; hereinafter the same shall apply in this Article), the said specified business operator shall notify about the customer identification data pertaining to the customer concerned and other matters specified by an ordinance of the competent ministries.

(2) In the case where a specified business operator has received a notification from another specified business operator pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph or this paragraph and has accepted the entrustment or re-entrustment of a payment from Japan to a foreign country, and when the said specified business operator intends to re-entrust the said payment to another specified business operator or an exchange dealer residing in a foreign country, the said specified business operator shall notify the matters pertaining to the notification concerned.

(3) In the case where a specified business operator has received a notification from an exchange dealer residing in a foreign country pursuant to the provisions of foreign laws and regulations equivalent to those of this Article and has accepted an entrustment or re-entrustment of a payment from a foreign country to Japan or a payment from a foreign country to another foreign country, and when the said specified business operator intends to re-entrust the said payment to another specified business operator or an exchange dealer residing in a foreign country, the said specified business operator shall notify about the matters pertaining to the notification concerned (limited to the matters specified by an ordinance of the competent ministries).

(4) In the case where a specified business operator has received a notification from another specified business operator pursuant