(2) The Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency shall, when having exercised his/her authority independently pursuant to the preceding paragraph, promptly notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of the result thereof.

(3) The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare shall, when having exercised his/her authority independently pursuant to paragraph 1, promptly notify the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency of the result thereof.

(4) The authority of the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency to conduct an inspection, etc. which is to be exercised with regard to a specified business operator listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, item (iv) of the Act shall be delegated to the Director-General of the Local Finance Bureau who has jurisdiction over the location of its principal office (in the case where the said location exists within the jurisdictional district of the Fukuoka Local Finance Branch Bureau, the Director-General of the Fukuoka Local Finance Branch Bureau); provided, however, that this shall not preclude the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency from exercising the authority him/herself.

(5) The affairs within the authority of the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency to conduct an inspection, etc. or the authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 13 and Article 14, paragraph 1 of the Act, which is to be exercised with regard to a specified business operator listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, item (iv) of the Act, shall be administered by the prefectural governor, if they are related to a specified business operator listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, item (iv) of the Act whose service area is within the boundary of a single prefecture (hereinafter referred to as a "prefectural labor bank" in this Article); provided however, that this shall not preclude the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency or the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from exercising the authority themselves.

(6) Where a prefectural governor has, based on the main clause of the preceding paragraph, collected reports from a prefectural labor bank or requested it to submit materials pursuant to Article 13 of the Act, or inspected a prefectural labor bank pursuant to Article 14, paragraph 1 of the Act, he/she shall report the result thereof to the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

(7) The business of receiving a report of suspicious transactions by a specified business operator listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, item (iv) of the Act shall be carried out by the prefectural governor if it is related to a prefectural labor bank.

Article 21 (Delegation, etc. of Authority of Administrative Agency for Transactions Involving Agricultural Cooperatives, etc.)

(1) The Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency and the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries shall not, upon exercising their authority prescribed in Article 13 and Article 14, paragraph 1 of the Act (in the case of the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency, the authority of the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency to conduct an inspection, etc.) with regard to any of the specified business operators listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, items (viii) and (ix) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as an "agricultural cooperative, etc." in this Article) or the specified business operators listed in items (x) to (xiii) of the same paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "fishery cooperative, etc." in this Article), be precluded from exercising their authority independently. In this case, the provisions of paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 of the preceding Article shall apply mutatis mutandis.

(2) The authority of the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency to conduct an inspection, etc. with regard to an agricultural cooperative, etc. and a fishery cooperative, etc. shall be delegated to the Director-General of the Local Finance Bureau who has jurisdiction over the location of its principal office (in the case where the said location exists within the jurisdictional district of the Fukuoka Local Finance Branch Bureau, the Director-General of the Fukuoka Local Finance Branch Bureau); provided, however, that this shall not preclude the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency from exercising the authority him/herself.

(3) The authority of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries prescribed in Article 13 and Article 14, paragraph 1 of the Act, which is to be exercised with regard to an agricultural cooperative, etc. (limited to the part to be exercised with regard to an agricultural cooperative, etc. whose service area is within the jurisdictional district of a Regional Agricultural Administration Office (hereinafter referred to as a "regional agricultural cooperative" in this paragraph)), shall be delegated to the Director-General of the Regional Agricultural Administration Office who has jurisdiction over the location of the principal office of the regional agricultural cooperative; provided however, that this shall not preclude the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from exercising the authority him/herself.

(4) The affairs within the authority of the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency to conduct an inspection, etc. or the