number as the customer's contract telephone number, and receives postal items addressed to the customer at the person's residence or office and delivers them to the customer, or receives telephone calls (including telecommunications by facsimile devices; hereinafter the same shall apply in Article 20, paragraph 1, item 9) addressed to the customer at the person's telephone number and notifies the customer of the content of such telephone calls

(xxxix) Lawyer (including a foreign lawyer registered in Japan) or legal profession corporation

(xl) Judicial scrivener or judicial scrivener corporation

(xli) Administrative scrivener or administrative scrivener corporation

(xlii) Certified public accountant including a registered foreign certified public accountant prescribed in Article 16-2, paragraph 5 of the Certified Public Accountant Act (Act No. 103 of 1948) or audit firm

(xliii) Certified tax accountant or certified tax accountant corporation

### Article 3 (Responsibility, etc. of the National Public Safety Commission)

(1) The National Public Safety Commission shall, in order to ensure that such measures as the identification of customers, preservation of transaction records or the like, and reporting of suspicious transactions should be conducted appropriately by specified business operators, provide them with assistance including the provision of information on the modus operandi regarding the transfer of criminal proceeds, and shall endeavor to enhance public awareness on the importance of prevention of the transfer of criminal proceeds.

(2) The National Public Safety Commission shall promptly and appropriately collect, arrange, and analyze information on criminal proceeds including information on suspicious transactions reported by specified business operators so that such information can be utilized effectively in the investigation into criminal cases, inquiry into irregularities and cooperation, including the international exchange of information, with regard to prevention of the transfer of criminal proceeds.

(3) The National Public Safety Commission, other relevant administrative organs and local public entities' relevant organs shall cooperate with each other to prevent the transfer of criminal proceeds.

### Article 4 (Obligation to Conduct Customer Identification, etc.)

(1) A specified business operator (excluding a specified business operator listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, item (xxxix) (referred to as a "lawyer, etc." in Article 8); the same shall apply hereinafter) shall, upon conducting a transaction prescribed in the right-hand column of the following table (hereinafter referred to as a "specified transaction") in connection with the business affairs prescribed respectively in the middle column of the same table (hereinafter referred to as "specified business affairs") according to the classification of specified business operators listed in the left-hand column of the same table with a customer (which means a customer as a user in case of a specified business operator listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, item (xxxv); the same shall apply hereinafter) or a person specified as being equivalent thereto by a Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as a "customer, etc."), verify customer identification data (which means the name, domicile (matters specified by an ordinance of the competent ministries in case of a foreign national who does not have a domicile in Japan and who is specified by a Cabinet Order) and date of birth when the said customer, etc. is a natural person, and the name and location of the head office or main office when the said customer, etc. is a legal person; the same shall apply hereinafter) with regard to the said customer, etc. by having the said customer, etc. show his/her driver's license or by any other method specified by an ordinance of the competent ministries (hereinafter such procedures shall be referred to as "customer identification").