第六条電気通信事業者は、電気通信役務の提供について、不当な差別的取扱いをしてはならない。

Article 6A telecommunications carrier must not engage in unfair and discriminatory treatment with regard to the provision of telecommunications services.

第七条基礎的電気通信役務（国民生活に不可欠であるためあまねく日本全国における提供が確保されるべき次に掲げる電気通信役務をいう。以下同じ。）を提供する電気通信事業者は、その適切、公平かつ安定的な提供に努めなければならない。

Article 7A telecommunications carrier that provides universal telecommunications services (meaning telecommunications services listed below that are to be provided nationwide due to their indispensability to the daily lives of the people; hereinafter the same applies) must make efforts to provide the services in an appropriate, fair and stable manner:

第八条電気通信事業者は、天災、事変その他の非常事態が発生し、又は発生するおそれがあるときは、災害の予防若しくは救援、交通、通信若しくは電力の供給の確保又は秩序の維持のために必要な事項を内容とする通信を優先的に取り扱わなければならない。公共の利益のため緊急に行うことを要するその他の通信であつて総務省令で定めるものについても、同様とする。

Article 8(1)If a natural disaster, serious event, or any other emergency occurs or is likely to occur, a telecommunications carrier must give priority to communications regarding matters that are necessary for prevention of a disaster or related relief efforts, for securing transportation, communications or electric power supply, or for maintaining the public order. The same applies to other communications specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications that are conducted in an urgent manner for the public interest.

２前項の場合において、電気通信事業者は、必要があるときは、総務省令で定める基準に従い、電気通信業務の一部を停止することができる。

(2)In the cases set forth in the preceding paragraph, if necessary, a telecommunications carrier may suspend part of its telecommunications operations in accordance with the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

３電気通信事業者は、第一項に規定する通信（以下「重要通信」という。）の円滑な実施を他の電気通信事業者と相互に連携を図りつつ確保するため、他の電気通信事業者と電気通信設備を相互に接続する場合には、総務省令で定めるところにより、重要通信の優先的な取扱いについて取り決めることその他の必要な措置を講じなければならない。

(3)If a telecommunications carrier interconnects its telecommunications facilities with another telecommunications carrier's telecommunications facilities in order to ensure the implementation of the communications set forth in paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "essential communications") in a smooth manner while trying to achieve mutual corporation, it must conclude an agreement for preferential treatment of essential communications or take other necessary measures pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第九条電気通信事業を営もうとする者は、総務大臣の登録を受けなければならない。ただし、次に掲げる場合は、この限りでない。

Article 9A person that intends to conduct telecommunications business must obtain registration from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications; provided, however, that this does not apply to the following cases:

第十条前条の登録を受けようとする者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、次の事項を記載した申請書を総務大臣に提出しなければならない。

Article 10(1)A person that intends to obtain a registration as set forth in the preceding Article must file a written application describing the following particulars with the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications:

２前項の申請書には、第十二条第一項第一号から第三号までに該当しないことを誓約する書面その他総務省令で定める書類を添付しなければならない。

(2)The written application set forth in the preceding paragraph must be accompanied by a document in which the relevant person pledges that it does not fall under Article 12, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii), and other documents specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第十一条総務大臣は、第九条の登録の申請があつた場合においては、次条第一項の規定により登録を拒否する場合を除き、次の事項を電気通信事業者登録簿に登録しなければならない。

Article 11(1)If an application for the registration set forth in Article 9 is filed, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications must register the following particulars in a register for telecommunications carriers, except for cases in which the Minister refuses the registration pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article:

２総務大臣は、前項の規定による登録をしたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を申請者に通知しなければならない。

(2)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications has made a registration under the preceding paragraph, the Minister must notify the applicant to that effect without delay.

第十二条総務大臣は、第十条第一項の申請書を提出した者が次の各号のいずれかに該当するとき、又は当該申請書若しくはその添付書類のうちに重要な事項について虚偽の記載があり、若しくは重要な事実の記載が欠けているときは、その登録を拒否しなければならない。

Article 12(1)If a person that has filed a written application set forth in Article 10, paragraph (1) falls under any of the following items, or the written application or its accompanying document includes a false entry on any important particulars or fails to describe any material fact, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications must refuse the registration:

２総務大臣は、前項の規定により登録を拒否したときは、文書によりその理由を付して通知しなければならない。

(2)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications has refused registration pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister must notify the applicant to that effect in writing together with the reasons.

第十二条の二第九条の登録は、次に掲げる事由が生じた場合において、当該事由が生じた日から起算して三月以内にその更新を受けなかつたときは、その効力を失う。

Article 12-2(1)The registration referred to in Article 9 ceases to have effect if any of the following conditions occurs and the registration is not renewed within three months from the date of the occurrence of the condition:

２前三条の規定は、前項の登録の更新について準用する。この場合において、次の表の上欄に掲げる規定中同表の中欄に掲げる字句は、それぞれ同表の下欄に掲げる字句に読み替えるものとする。

(2)The provisions of the preceding three Articles apply mutatis mutandis to the renewal of registration under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the terms in the middle column of the table below which are used in the provisions in its left column are deemed to be replaced with the terms in its right column.

３第一項の登録の更新の申請があつた場合において、同項に規定する期間内に当該申請に対する処分がされないときは、第九条の登録は、当該期間の経過後も当該処分がされるまでの間は、なおその効力を有する。

(3)If a request for the renewal of the registration is filed pursuant to paragraph (1), and the processing of the requested renewal is not completed by the end of the period specified in that paragraph, the registration under Article 9 remains in force until the process is completed, even after the expiration of that period.

４第一項において、次の各号に掲げる用語の意義は、当該各号に定めるところによる。

(4)In paragraph (1), the meanings of the following terms are as prescribed in those items:

第十三条第九条の登録を受けた者は、第十条第一項第三号又は第四号の事項を変更しようとするときは、総務大臣の変更登録を受けなければならない。ただし、総務省令で定める軽微な変更については、この限りでない。

Article 13(1)If a person that has obtained the registration set forth in Article 9 intends to change any of the particulars set forth in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (iii) or (iv), the person must obtain a registration of the change from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications; provided, however, that this does not apply to minor changes specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

２第九条の登録を受けた者が第百六十四条第一項第三号の規定により新たに指定をされた場合において、当該指定により第十条第一項第三号の事項に変更が生じたときにおける前項の規定の適用については、同項中「を変更しようとするときは」とあるのは、「に変更が生じたときは、第百六十四条第一項第三号の規定により新たに指定をされた日から一月以内に」とする。

(2)With regard to the application of the provision of the preceding paragraph in the case in which a person registered under Article 9 has been newly designated pursuant to the provision of Article 164, paragraph (1), item (iii) and a change has occurred in the matters set forth in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (iii) due to that designation, the phrase "If a person that has obtained the registration set forth in Article 9 intends to change any of the particulars set forth in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (iii) or (iv), the person must obtain a registration of the change from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications" in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "If there is any change to the particulars set forth in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (iii) or (iv), the person must obtain a registration of the change from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications within one month from the date newly designated pursuant to the provision of Article 164, paragraph (1), item (iii)".

３第一項（前項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。第百八十六条第一号を除き、以下同じ。）の変更登録を受けようとする者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、変更に係る事項を記載した申請書を総務大臣に提出しなければならない。

(3)A person that intends to obtain the registration of the change set forth in the paragraph (1) (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms; the same applies hereinafter except for Article 186, item (i)) must file a written application describing the particulars subject to the change with the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

４第十条第二項、第十一条及び第十二条の規定は、第一項の変更登録について準用する。この場合において、第十一条第一項中「次の事項」とあるのは「変更に係る事項」と、第十二条第一項中「第十条第一項の申請書を提出した者が次の各号」とあるのは「変更登録に係る申請書を提出した者が次の各号（第二号にあつては、この法律に相当する外国の法令の規定に係る部分に限る。）」と読み替えるものとする。

(4)The provisions of Article 10, paragraph (2), Article 11, and Article 12 apply mutatis mutandis to the registration of the change as set forth in paragraph (1). In this case, the term "the following particulars" in Article 11, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the particulars subject to the change"; and the term "If a person that has filed a written application set forth in Article 10, paragraph (1) falls under any of the following items" in Article 12, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "If a person that has filed a written application for registration of a change falls under any of the following items (item (ii) is limited to parts related to provisions for foreign laws equivalent to this Act)".

５第九条の登録を受けた者は、第十条第一項第一号、第二号若しくは第五号の事項に変更があつたとき、又は第一項ただし書の総務省令で定める軽微な変更をしたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。その届出があつた場合には、総務大臣は、遅滞なく、当該登録を変更するものとする。

(5)If a person that has obtained the registration as set forth in Article 9 has changed any of the particulars set forth in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (i), (ii), or (v), or has made any minor changes specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as set forth in the proviso of paragraph (1), the person must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect without delay. If that notification is filed, the Minister is to change the registration without delay.

第十四条総務大臣は、第九条の登録を受けた者が次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、同条の登録を取り消すことができる。

Article 14(1)If a person that has obtained the registration as set forth in Article 9 falls under any of the following items, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may revoke the registration set forth in that Article:

２第十二条第二項の規定は、前項の場合に準用する。

(2)The provisions of Article 12, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to cases set forth in the preceding paragraph.

第十五条総務大臣は、第十八条の規定による電気通信事業の全部の廃止若しくは解散の届出があつたとき、第十二条の二第一項の規定により登録がその効力を失つたとき、又は前条第一項の規定による登録の取消しをしたときは、当該第九条の登録を受けた者の登録を抹消しなければならない。

Article 15If a notification of the total discontinuation of telecommunications business or a notification of dissolution is filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, the registration ceases to have effect pursuant to the provisions of Article 12-2, paragraph (1), or if the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications revokes the registration pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the Minister must delete the registration of the relevant person that has obtained the registration set forth in Article 9.

第十六条電気通信事業を営もうとする者（第九条の登録を受けるべき者を除く。）は、総務省令で定めるところにより、次の事項を記載した書類を添えて、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

Article 16(1)A person that intends to conduct telecommunications business (except for a person that should obtain registration as set forth in Article 9) must file a notification to that effect with the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, by attaching documents describing the following particulars to it:

２電気通信事業者以外の者が第百六十四条第一項第三号の規定により新たに指定をされた場合における前項の規定の適用については、同項中「その旨」とあるのは、「第百六十四条第一項第三号の規定により新たに指定をされた日から一月以内に、その旨」とする。

(2)With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph in the case in which a person other than a telecommunications carrier has been newly designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 164, paragraph (1), item (iii), the phrase "to that effect" in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "to that effect, within one month from the date of the new designation under Article 164, paragraph (1), item (iii)".

３第一項（前項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。第百八十五条第一号を除き、以下同じ。）の届出をした者は、第一項第一号、第二号又は第五号の事項に変更があつたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(3)If a person that has filed the notification set forth in paragraph (1) (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms; the same applies hereinafter except for Article 185, item (i)) has changed any of the particulars specified in item (i), (ii) or (v) of that paragraph, the person must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect without delay.

４第一項の届出をした者は、同項第三号又は第四号の事項を変更しようとするときは、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。ただし、総務省令で定める軽微な変更については、この限りでない。

(4)If a person that has filed the notification set forth in paragraph (1) intends to change any of the particulars set forth in item (iii) or (iv) of that paragraph, the person must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect; provided, however, that this does not apply to minor changes specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

５第一項の届出をした者は、第四十一条第四項の規定により新たに指定をされたときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、その指定の日から一月以内に、第一項第四号の事項を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(5)If a person that has filed the notification as set forth in paragraph (1) is newly designated pursuant to Article 41, paragraph (4), the person must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of the particulars set forth in paragraph (1), item (iv) within one month from that date of designation, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

６第一項の届出をした者が第百六十四条第一項第三号の規定により新たに指定をされた場合において、当該指定により第一項第三号の事項に変更が生じたときにおける第四項の規定の適用については、同項中「を変更しようとするときは」とあるのは、「に変更が生じたときは、第百六十四条第一項第三号の規定により新たに指定をされた日から一月以内に」とする。

(6)With regard to the application of the provision of paragraph (4) in the case in which a person that has filed the notification set forth in paragraph (1) has been newly designated pursuant to the provision of Article 164, paragraph (1), item (iii) and a change has occurred in the matters set forth in paragraph (1), item (iii) due to that designation, the phrase "intends to change" in paragraph (4) is deemed to be replaced with "for when a change has occurred, within one month from the date of the new designation pursuant to the provision of Article 164, paragraph (1), item (iii)".

第十七条電気通信事業の全部の譲渡しがあつたとき、又は電気通信事業者について合併、分割（電気通信事業の全部を承継させるものに限る。）若しくは相続があつたときは、当該電気通信事業の全部を譲り受けた者又は合併後存続する法人若しくは合併により設立した法人、分割により当該電気通信事業の全部を承継した法人若しくは相続人（相続人が二人以上ある場合においてその協議により当該電気通信事業を承継すべき相続人を定めたときは、その者。以下この項において同じ。）は、電気通信事業者の地位を承継する。ただし、当該電気通信事業者が第九条の登録を受けた者である場合において、当該電気通信事業の全部を譲り受けた者又は合併後存続する法人若しくは合併により設立した法人、分割により当該電気通信事業の全部を承継した法人若しくは相続人が第十二条第一項第一号から第四号までのいずれかに該当するときは、この限りでない。

Article 17(1)If all of telecommunications business has been transferred, or a telecommunications carrier has merged or split (this split is limited to a split resulting in the succession to all of telecommunications business), or inheritance from that carrier has occurred, the person that has acquired all of the telecommunications business through the transfer, the corporation surviving after the merger or newly established upon the merger, the corporation that has succeeded all of the telecommunications business upon the split, or the heir (or if one particular heir has been selected from among two or more heirs as the successor to the telecommunications business by agreement among the heirs, the selected heir; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) succeeds to the status of the telecommunications carrier; provided, however, that this does not apply if the telecommunications carrier has obtained the registration set forth in Article 9; and the person that has acquired all of the telecommunications business through the transfer, the corporation surviving after the merger or newly established upon the merger, the corporation that has succeeded to all of the telecommunications business upon the split, or the heir falls under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iv).

２前項の規定により電気通信事業者の地位を承継した者は、遅滞なく、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(2)A person that has succeeded to the status of telecommunications carrier pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect without delay.

第十八条電気通信事業者は、電気通信事業の全部又は一部を休止し、又は廃止したときは、遅滞なく、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

Article 18(1)If a telecommunications carrier suspends or discontinues all or part of its telecommunications business, it must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect without delay.

２電気通信事業者たる法人が合併以外の事由により解散したときは、その清算人（解散が破産手続開始の決定による場合にあつては、破産管財人）又は外国の法令上これらに相当する者は、遅滞なく、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(2)If a corporation that is a telecommunications carrier dissolves due to reasons other than a merger, the liquidator in charge (or in cases of dissolution due to an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings, the bankruptcy trustee) or an equivalent person set forth in foreign law must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect without delay.

第十九条基礎的電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、その提供する基礎的電気通信役務に関する料金その他の提供条件（第五十二条第一項又は第七十条第一項第一号の規定により認可を受けるべき技術的条件に係る事項及び総務省令で定める事項を除く。第三項及び第二十五条第二項において同じ。）について契約約款を定め、総務省令で定めるところにより、その実施前に、総務大臣に届け出なければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする。

Article 19(1)A telecommunications carrier that provides universal telecommunications services must establish general conditions of contracts concerning charges and other terms and conditions for the provision of its universal telecommunications services (except for particulars concerning technical conditions to be authorized pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1) or Article 70, paragraph (1), item (i), and particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; the same applies in paragraph (3) of this Article and Article 25, paragraph (2)) and notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of those general conditions of contracts before their implementation, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication. The same applies if it intends to change them.

２総務大臣は、前項の規定により届け出た契約約款（以下「届出契約約款」という。）が次の各号のいずれかに該当すると認めるときは、当該届出をした基礎的電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者に対し、相当の期限を定め、当該届出契約約款を変更すべきことを命ずることができる。

(2)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that the general conditions of contracts for which notification has been filed (hereinafter referred to as "notified contract conditions") pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph fall under any of the following items, the Minister may order the telecommunications carrier that has given the notification and is providing the universal telecommunications services to change the notified contract conditions within a reasonable period designated by the Minister:

３基礎的電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合を除き、届出契約約款に定める料金その他の提供条件によらなければ当該基礎的電気通信役務を提供してはならない。

(3)A telecommunications carrier that provides universal telecommunications services must not do so except in accordance with the charges and other terms and conditions set forth in the notified contract conditions, other than in cases falling under any of the following items:

４基礎的電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定める基準に従い、届出契約約款に定める当該基礎的電気通信役務の料金を減免することができる。

(4)In accordance with the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier that provides universal telecommunications services may reduce or exempt charges for those services specified in the notified contract conditions.

第二十条指定電気通信役務（第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者が当該第一種指定電気通信設備を用いて提供する電気通信役務であつて、当該電気通信役務に代わるべき電気通信役務が他の電気通信事業者によつて十分に提供されないことその他の事情を勘案して当該第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者が当該第一種指定電気通信設備を用いて提供する電気通信役務の適正な料金その他の提供条件に基づく提供を保障することにより利用者の利益を保護するため特に必要があるものとして総務省令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。）を提供する電気通信事業者は、その提供する指定電気通信役務に関する料金その他の提供条件（第五十二条第一項又は第七十条第一項第一号の規定により認可を受けるべき技術的条件に係る事項及び総務省令で定める事項を除く。第五項及び第二十五条第三項において同じ。）について契約約款を定め、総務省令で定めるところにより、その実施前に、総務大臣に届け出なければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする。

Article 20(1)A telecommunications carrier that provides designated telecommunications services (telecommunications services which a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities provides by using those facilities, and which are specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as those particularly necessary to be designated in order that the interests of users are protected by efforts of the relevant telecommunications carrier to ensure that the carrier provides those services using those facilities based on proper charges or other proper terms and conditions, considering the circumstances such as those in which substitute telecommunications services are not sufficiently provided by other carriers; hereinafter the same applies) must establish general conditions of contracts concerning charges and other terms and conditions for the provision of its designated telecommunications services (except for particulars on technical conditions to be authorized pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1) or Article 70, paragraph (1), item (i), and particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; the same applies in paragraph (5) of this Article, and Article 25, paragraph (3)) and must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of those general conditions of contracts before their implementation, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The same applies if it intends to change them.

２指定電気通信役務であつて、基礎的電気通信役務である電気通信役務については、前項（第四項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。次項、次条第二項及び第百八十八条第二号において同じ。）の規定は適用しない。

(2)The provisions of the preceding paragraph (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) following the deemed replacement of terms; the same applies in the following paragraph of this Article, paragraph (2) of the following Article and Article 188, item (ii)) do not apply to telecommunications services which are both designated telecommunications services and universal telecommunications services.

３総務大臣は、第一項の規定により届け出た契約約款（以下「保障契約約款」という。）が次の各号のいずれかに該当すると認めるときは、当該届出をした指定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者に対し、相当の期限を定め、当該保障契約約款を変更すべきことを命ずることができる。

(3)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that the general conditions of contracts for which notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "general conditions of contracts for securing the provision of the telecommunications services") fall under any of the following items, the Minister may order the telecommunications carrier that has given the notification and is providing the designated telecommunications services to change those general conditions within a reasonable period designated by the Minister:

４第三十三条第一項の規定により新たに指定をされた電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者がその指定の日以後最初に第一項の規定により総務大臣に届け出るべき契約約款については、同項中「その実施前に、総務大臣に届け出なければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする」とあるのは、「第三十三条第一項の規定により新たに指定をされた日から三月以内に、総務大臣に届け出なければならない」とする。

(4)With respect to the general conditions of contracts concerning which a telecommunications carrier installing the telecommunications facilities newly designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 33, paragraph (1) must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications for the first time after the designation date pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the phrase "must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of the general conditions of contracts prior to their implementation, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The same applies to the cases in which it intends to change them" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of the general conditions of contracts within three months from the date on which the designation is granted pursuant to the provisions of Article 33, paragraph (1)".

５指定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合を除き、保障契約約款に定める料金その他の提供条件によらなければ当該指定電気通信役務を提供してはならない。

(5)A telecommunications carrier that provides designated telecommunications services must not do so except in accordance with the charges and other terms and conditions for the provision of those services specified in the general conditions of contracts for securing the provision of the telecommunications services, other than in cases falling under any of the following items:

６指定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定める基準に従い、保障契約約款に定める当該指定電気通信役務の料金を減免することができる。

(6)In accordance with the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier that provides designated telecommunications services may reduce or exempt charges for those services specified in the general conditions of contracts for securing the provision of the telecommunications services.

第二十一条総務大臣は、毎年少なくとも一回、総務省令で定めるところにより、指定電気通信役務であつて、その内容、利用者の範囲等からみて利用者の利益に及ぼす影響が大きいものとして総務省令で定めるもの（以下「特定電気通信役務」という。）に関する料金について、総務省令で定める特定電気通信役務の種別ごとに、能率的な経営の下における適正な原価及び物価その他の経済事情を考慮して、通常実現することができると認められる水準の料金を料金指数（電気通信役務の種別ごとに、料金の水準を表す数値として、通信の距離及び速度その他の区分ごとの料金額並びにそれらが適用される通信量、回線数等を基に総務省令で定める方法により算出される数値をいう。以下同じ。）により定め、その料金指数（以下「基準料金指数」という。）を、その適用の日の総務省令で定める日数前までに、当該特定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者に通知しなければならない。

Article 21(1)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, at least once a year, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications must determine the level of charges that is generally found feasible for designated telecommunications services specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as those having a significant influence on the interests of users in light of their content, the scope of users, and other factors (hereinafter referred to as "specified telecommunications services"), in consideration of reasonable costs under efficient management, commodity prices, and other economic circumstances, for each type of specified telecommunications services specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, by using a charge index (meaning figures to represent the level of charges for each type of telecommunications service, which are calculated by using the methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications considering charges based on the distance and speed of communications and other classifications as well as the amount of traffic, the number of circuits, and other factors to which the charges are applied; hereinafter the same applies), and must notify the telecommunications carrier that provides the specified telecommunications services of the charge index (hereinafter referred to as "the standard charge index") by the period before the date on which the standard charge index becomes applicable as specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

２特定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、その提供する特定電気通信役務に関する料金を変更しようとする場合において、当該変更後の料金の料金指数が当該特定電気通信役務に係る基準料金指数を超えるものであるときは、第十九条第一項又は前条第一項の規定にかかわらず、総務大臣の認可を受けなければならない。

(2)Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if a telecommunications carrier that provides specified telecommunications services intends to change charges for those services, and the charge index after the change exceeds the standard charge index for those services, it must obtain authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.

３総務大臣は、前項の認可の申請があつた場合において、基準料金指数以下の料金指数の料金により難い特別な事情があり、かつ、当該申請に係る変更後の料金が次の各号のいずれにも該当しないと認めるときは、同項の認可をしなければならない。

(3)The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications must grant the authorization as set forth in the preceding paragraph, if an application for the authorization set forth in the preceding paragraph is filed, and the Minister finds that there are special circumstances making it difficult to offer charges based on a charge index that is equivalent to or less than the standard charge index and that the charges after the change requested in the application do not fall under any of the following items:

４総務大臣は、基準料金指数の適用後において、当該基準料金指数が適用される特定電気通信役務に関する料金の料金指数が当該基準料金指数を超えている場合は、当該基準料金指数以下の料金指数により難い特別な事情があると認めるときを除き、当該特定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者に対し、相当の期限を定め、当該特定電気通信役務に関する料金を変更すべきことを命ずるものとする。

(4)If the standard charge index is applied, and the charge index for the specified telecommunications services to which that standard charge index is applicable exceeds that standard charge index, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications is to order the telecommunications carrier that provides the specified telecommunications services to change the charges for those services within a reasonable period designated by the Minister, except for the cases in which the Minister finds that there are special circumstances making it difficult to offer charges based on a charge index that is equivalent to or less than the standard charge index.

５第一種指定電気通信設備であつた電気通信設備を設置している電気通信事業者が当該電気通信設備を用いて提供する電気通信役務（基礎的電気通信役務に限る。）に関する料金であつて第三十三条第一項の規定による指定の解除の際現に第二項の規定により認可を受けているものは、届出契約約款に定める料金とみなす。

(5)If a telecommunications carrier installing the telecommunications facilities that were formerly Category I designated telecommunications facilities provides telecommunications services (limited to universal telecommunications services) by using those facilities, and charges for those services have been authorized pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) as of the time of the cancellation of the designation under Article 33, paragraph (1), the charges are deemed to be those specified by the notified contract conditions.

６特定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、第二項の規定により認可を受けるべき料金については、同項の規定により認可を受けた料金によらなければ当該特定電気通信役務を提供してはならない。ただし、次項の規定により当該特定電気通信役務の料金を減免する場合は、この限りでない。

(6)A telecommunications carrier that provides specified telecommunications services must not do so unless their charges to be authorized pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) are in accordance with those which have been authorized pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph; provided, however, that this does not apply if charges for those services are reduced or exempted pursuant to the provisions of the following paragraph.

７特定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定める基準に従い、第二項の規定により認可を受けた当該特定電気通信役務の料金を減免することができる。

(7)In accordance with the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier that provides specified telecommunications services may reduce or exempt charges for those services authorized pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2).

第二十二条特定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定める方法により、その提供する特定電気通信役務の通信量、回線数等を記録しておかなければならない。

Article 22A telecommunications carrier that provides specified telecommunications services must keep records of the amount of traffic, the number of circuits, and other factors of its specified telecommunications services by the methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第二十三条基礎的電気通信役務、指定電気通信役務又は特定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、届出契約約款若しくは保障契約約款（第五十二条第一項又は第七十条第一項第一号の規定により認可を受けた技術的条件を含む。）又は第二十一条第二項の規定により認可を受けた料金を、総務省令で定めるところにより、公表するとともに、営業所その他の事業所において公衆の見やすいように掲示しておかなければならない。

Article 23(1)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier that provides universal telecommunications services, designated telecommunications services, or specified telecommunications services must make public the notified contract conditions or the general conditions of contracts for securing the provision of the telecommunications services (including the technical conditions authorized pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1) or Article 70, paragraph (1), item (i)) or the charges authorized pursuant to the provisions of Article 21, paragraph (2), and must post those general conditions or charges at its business offices or other places of business in a manner in which the public can easily see them.

２前項の規定は、第十九条第一項又は第二十条第一項の総務省令で定める事項に係る提供条件について準用する。

(2)The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the terms and conditions for the provision of those services in relation to the particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as set forth in Article 19, paragraph (1) or Article 20, paragraph (1).

第二十四条次に掲げる電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定める勘定科目の分類その他会計に関する手続に従い、その会計を整理しなければならない。

Article 24The following telecommunications carriers must keep accounts in accordance with the classification of accounting titles and other accounting procedures specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications:

第二十五条第一号基礎的電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、正当な理由がなければ、その業務区域における当該第一号基礎的電気通信役務の提供を拒んではならない。

Article 25(1)A telecommunications carrier that provides item (i) universal telecommunications services must not refuse to do so within its service areas without justifiable grounds.

２第二号基礎的電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、当該第二号基礎的電気通信役務の提供の相手方と料金その他の提供条件について別段の合意がある場合を除き、正当な理由がなければ、その業務区域における届出契約約款に定める料金その他の提供条件による当該第二号基礎的電気通信役務の提供を拒んではならない。

(2)Without justifiable grounds, a telecommunications carrier that provides item (ii) universal telecommunications services must not refuse to do so under the charges and other terms and conditions set forth in the notified contract conditions in its service area, except as otherwise provided by an agreement with the party receiving the item (ii) universal telecommunications services concerning charges and other terms and conditions for the provision of those services.

３指定電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、当該指定電気通信役務の提供の相手方と料金その他の提供条件について別段の合意がある場合を除き、正当な理由がなければ、その業務区域における保障契約約款に定める料金その他の提供条件による当該指定電気通信役務の提供を拒んではならない。

(3)Without justifiable grounds, a telecommunications carrier that provides designated telecommunications services must not refuse to do so under the charges and under other terms and conditions for the provision of those services, as specified in the general conditions of contracts for securing the provision of the telecommunications services, within its service areas, except as otherwise provided by an agreement with the party receiving the designated telecommunications services concerning charges and other terms and conditions for the provision of those services.

第二十六条電気通信事業者は、利用者（電気通信役務の提供を受けようとする者を含み、電気通信事業者である者を除く。以下この項、第二十七条及び第二十七条の二において同じ。）と次に掲げる電気通信役務の提供に関する契約の締結をしようとするときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、当該電気通信役務に関する料金その他の提供条件の概要について、その者に説明しなければならない。ただし、当該契約の内容その他の事情を勘案し、当該提供条件の概要について利用者に説明しなくても利用者の利益の保護のため支障を生ずることがないと認められるものとして総務省令で定める場合は、この限りでない。

Article 26(1)If a telecommunications carrier intends to conclude a contract for the provision of the telecommunications services listed below, with a user (including a person that intends to receive telecommunications services, but excluding a telecommunications carrier; the same applies in this paragraph, Article 27 and Article 27-2), the carrier must explain an outline of the charges and other terms and conditions for the provision of those services to the user pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; provided, however, that this does not apply to the cases that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as those in which it is found that the protection of the interests of users would not be compromised even if the outline of the charges and other terms and conditions for service provision were not explained to the user, in consideration of the contents of the contract and other circumstances:

２前項各号の規定による指定は、告示によつて行う。

(2)The designations set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph are made by issuing a public notice.

第二十六条の二電気通信事業者は、前条第一項各号に掲げる電気通信役務の提供に関する契約が成立したときは、遅滞なく、総務省令で定めるところにより、書面を作成し、これを利用者（電気通信事業者である者を除く。以下この条並びに次条第一項及び第五項において同じ。）に交付しなければならない。ただし、当該契約の内容その他の事情を勘案し、当該書面を利用者に交付しなくても利用者の利益の保護のため支障を生ずることがないと認められるものとして総務省令で定める場合は、この限りでない。

Article 26-2(1)If a telecommunications carrier effects a contract for provision of telecommunications services as listed in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the telecommunications carrier must prepare a document and deliver it to the user (excluding telecommunications carriers; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and paragraphs (1) and (5) of the following Article) without delay pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; provided, however, that this does not apply to the cases that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as those in which it is found that the protection of the interests of users would not be compromised even if the document were not delivered to the user, in consideration of the contents of the contract and other circumstances.

２電気通信事業者は、前項の規定による書面の交付に代えて、政令で定めるところにより、利用者の承諾を得て、当該書面に記載すべき事項を電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法であつて総務省令で定めるものにより提供することができる。この場合において、当該電気通信事業者は、当該書面を交付したものとみなす。

(2)With the consent of the user and pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, in lieu of delivering the document under the preceding paragraph, a telecommunications carrier may provide a user with the particulars that are required to be stated in that document by means of an electronic data processing system or by any other means of information and communications technology specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. In doing so, the telecommunications carrier is deemed to have delivered the document.

３前項に規定する方法（総務省令で定める方法を除く。）により第一項の規定による書面の交付に代えて行われた当該書面に記載すべき事項の提供は、利用者の使用に係る電子計算機に備えられたファイルへの記録がされた時に当該利用者に到達したものとみなす。

(3)If a telecommunications carrier has provided the particulars that are required to be included in a document under paragraph (1) by the methods referred to in the preceding paragraph (excluding the methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications), in lieu of delivering the document, those particulars are deemed to be delivered to a user when those particulars are recorded in a file stored on a computer used by that user.

第二十六条の三電気通信事業者と第二十六条第一項第一号又は第二号に掲げる電気通信役務の提供に関する契約を締結した利用者は、総務省令で定める場合を除き、前条第一項の書面を受領した日（当該電気通信役務（第二十六条第一項第一号に掲げる電気通信役務に限る。）の提供が開始された日が当該受領した日より遅いときは、当該開始された日）から起算して八日を経過するまでの間（利用者が、電気通信事業者又は届出媒介等業務受託者（第七十三条の二第二項に規定する届出媒介等業務受託者をいう。第二十七条の三第二項第二号において同じ。）がそれぞれ第二十七条の二（第一号に係る部分に限る。以下この項において同じ。）又は第七十三条の三において準用する第二十七条の二の規定に違反してこの項の規定による当該契約の解除に関する事項につき不実のことを告げる行為をしたことにより当該告げられた内容が事実であるとの誤認をし、これによつて当該期間を経過するまでの間にこの項の規定による当該契約の解除を行わなかつた場合には、当該利用者が、当該電気通信事業者が総務省令で定めるところによりこの項の規定による当該契約の解除を行うことができる旨を記載して交付した書面を受領した日から起算して八日を経過するまでの間）、書面により当該契約の解除を行うことができる。

Article 26-3(1)Except as otherwise provided by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a user that has concluded a contract with a telecommunications carrier under which they are provided with telecommunications services listed in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii) may cancel that contract in writing unless eight days have elapsed since the day on which the customer received the document set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (or until eight days have elapsed since the date of commencement of the telecommunications services, if the provision of the telecommunications services (limited to telecommunications services set forth in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (i)) commences after the receipt date of the document; or unless eight days have elapsed since the date on which the user received a document in which, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the telecommunications carrier has described that the user may cancel that contract pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph, and which the telecommunications carrier has delivered to the user, if the telecommunications carrier or a person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that conducts notification (meaning a person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that conducts notification as defined in Article 73-2, paragraph (2); the same applies in Article 27-3, paragraph (2), item (ii)) misrepresented the information on cancellation of that contract under this paragraph, in violation of the provisions in Article 27-2 (limited to the part relating to item (i); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), or the provisions of Article 27-2 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 73-3, respectively, and as a result of that false explanation, the user misconstrued that the explanation was correct, and did not cancel that contract under this paragraph within that period).

２前項の規定による電気通信役務の提供に関する契約の解除は、当該契約の解除を行う旨の書面を発した時に、その効力を生ずる。

(2)The cancellation of a contract for the provision of telecommunications services under the preceding paragraph becomes effective when a document indicating that the contract for the provision of telecommunications services is cancelled is issued.

３電気通信事業者は、第一項の規定による電気通信役務の提供に関する契約の解除があつた場合には、当該契約の解除をした者に対し、当該契約の解除に伴い損害賠償若しくは違約金を請求し、又はその他の金銭等（金銭その他の財産をいう。次項において同じ。）の支払若しくは交付を請求することができない。ただし、当該契約の解除までの期間において提供を受けた電気通信役務に対して当該契約の解除をした者が支払うべき金額その他の当該契約に関して当該契約の解除をした者が支払うべき金額として総務省令で定める額については、この限りでない。

(3)If a contract for the provision of telecommunications services becomes subject to a cancellation under paragraph (1), the telecommunications carrier may not demand that the person who cancelled the contract pay any compensation or penalty for that cancellation, or pay or deliver other monies (meaning money and other property; the same applies in the following paragraph); provided, however, that this does not apply to the amount of money specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as the amount of money payable by the person who cancelled that contract for services received in the period up until the cancellation of that contract, or any other amount of money payable regarding the contract by the person who cancelled it.

４電気通信事業者は、第一項の規定による電気通信役務の提供に関する契約の解除があつた場合において、当該契約に関連して金銭等を受領しているときは、当該契約の解除をした者に対し、速やかに、これを返還しなければならない。ただし、当該契約に関連して受領した金銭等のうち前項ただし書の総務省令で定める額については、この限りでない。

(4)If a contract for the provision of telecommunications services becomes subject to a cancellation under paragraph (1), and the telecommunications carrier has received monies in connection with the contract, the carrier must promptly return them to the person who cancelled that contract; provided, however, that this does not apply to the amount of money specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as prescribed in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, among the monies received in connection with that contract.

５前各項の規定に反する特約で利用者に不利なものは、無効とする。

(5)A special provision that is contrary to the provisions of the preceding paragraphs and disadvantageous to a user is void.

第二十六条の四電気通信事業者は、電気通信業務の全部又は一部を休止し、又は廃止しようとするときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、当該休止し、又は廃止しようとする電気通信業務に係る利用者に対し、利用者の利益を保護するために必要な事項として総務省令で定める事項を周知させなければならない。ただし、利用者の利益に及ぼす影響が比較的少ないものとして総務省令で定める電気通信役務に係る電気通信業務の休止又は廃止については、この限りでない。

Article 26-4(1)When suspending or discontinuing all or part of telecommunications operations, in advance, a telecommunications carrier must make the particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as those necessary to protect the interests of users known to users concerned with the operations that the carrier intends to suspend or discontinue, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; provided, however, that this does not apply to suspension or discontinuation of telecommunications operations related to telecommunications services specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as those having relatively little effect on the interests of users.

２前項本文の場合において、電気通信事業者は、利用者の利益に及ぼす影響が大きいものとして総務省令で定める電気通信役務に係る電気通信業務の休止又は廃止については、総務省令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、同項の総務省令で定める事項を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(2)In the case of the main clause in the preceding paragraph, a telecommunications carrier must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of the particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in that paragraph in advance, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, with regard to suspension or discontinuation of telecommunications operations related to telecommunications services specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as having a significant influence on the interests of users.

第二十六条の五総務大臣は、その保有する前条第二項の総務省令で定める電気通信役務に係る電気通信業務の休止及び廃止に関する次に掲げる情報を整理し、これをインターネットの利用その他の適切な方法により公表するものとする。

Article 26-5The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications is to organize the following information that the Minister possesses regarding suspension or discontinuation of telecommunications operations for telecommunications services specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as prescribed in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, and make the relevant information public using the Internet and other appropriate methods:

第二十七条電気通信事業者は、第二十六条第一項各号に掲げる電気通信役務に係る当該電気通信事業者の業務の方法又は当該電気通信事業者が提供する同項各号に掲げる電気通信役務についての利用者からの苦情及び問合せについては、適切かつ迅速にこれを処理しなければならない。

Article 27A telecommunications carrier must properly and promptly process complaints or inquiries from users regarding the telecommunications carrier's methods of conducting its operations in relation to the telecommunications services set forth in the items of Article 26, paragraph (1), or regarding the telecommunications services as set forth in the items of that paragraph which the telecommunications carrier provides.

第二十七条の二電気通信事業者は、次に掲げる行為をしてはならない。

Article 27-2Telecommunications carriers must not engage in any of the following:

第二十七条の三総務大臣は、総務省令で定めるところにより、移動電気通信役務（第二十六条第一項第一号に掲げる電気通信役務又は同項第三号に掲げる電気通信役務（その一端が移動端末設備と接続される伝送路設備を用いて提供されるものに限る。）であつて、電気通信役務の提供の状況その他の事情を勘案して電気通信事業者間の適正な競争関係を確保する必要があるものとして総務大臣が指定するものをいう。以下同じ。）を提供する電気通信事業者（移動電気通信役務（当該電気通信事業者が提供するものと同種のものに限る。）の利用者の総数に占めるその提供する移動電気通信役務の利用者の数の割合が電気通信事業者間の適正な競争関係に及ぼす影響が少ないものとして総務省令で定める割合を超えないものを除く。）を次項の規定の適用を受ける電気通信事業者として指定することができる。

Article 27-3(1)The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may designate a telecommunications carrier that provides mobile telecommunications services (meaning telecommunications services set forth in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (i) or telecommunications services set forth in item (iii) in that paragraph (limited to services provided by using transmission line facilities interconnected to mobile terminal facilities at one end), which are designated by the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications as those for which it is necessary to keep appropriate competitive relationships among telecommunications carriers, in consideration of their conditions for the provision of telecommunications services, or other circumstances; hereinafter the same applies) (the relevant telecommunications carrier excludes a carrier whose proportion of the number of users who they provide with mobile telecommunications services to the total number of users of mobile telecommunications services (limited to the same type of services as those provided by the telecommunications carriers) does not exceed the proportion specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as having little impact on appropriate competitive relationships among telecommunications carriers) as a telecommunications carrier to which the provisions of the following paragraph apply.

２前項の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、次に掲げる行為をしてはならない。

(2)Telecommunications carriers designated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must not engage in any of the following:

３第一項の規定による移動電気通信役務の指定及び電気通信事業者の指定は、告示によつて行う。

(3)The designation of mobile telecommunications services and telecommunications carriers under paragraph (1) is made by issuing a public notice.

第二十七条の四電気通信事業者は、電気通信役務の提供に関する契約の締結の媒介、取次ぎ又は代理（以下「媒介等」という。）の業務又はこれに付随する業務の委託をした場合には、総務省令で定めるところにより、当該委託を受けた者（その者から委託（二以上の段階にわたる委託を含む。）を受けた者を含む。以下「媒介等業務受託者」という。）に対する指導その他の当該委託に係る業務の適正かつ確実な遂行を確保するために必要な措置を講じなければならない。

Article 27-4If a telecommunications carrier entrusts a person to conclude a contract for the provision of telecommunications services as an intermediary, broker or agent (hereinafter referred to as "intermediation or other similar actions"), or conduct any other associated operations, the telecommunications carrier must provide guidance to any person entrusted with those operations (including other persons that are entrusted with those operations by the relevant person (including cases in which the relevant operations are entrusted two or more times); hereinafter referred to as a "person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions") or take other measures necessary for ensuring that the operations related to that entrustment are conducted in a proper and secure manner, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第二十七条の五総務大臣は、総務省令で定めるところにより、内容、利用者の範囲及び利用状況を勘案して利用者の利益に及ぼす影響が大きいものとして総務省令で定める電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者を、特定利用者情報（当該電気通信役務に関して取得する利用者に関する情報であつて次に掲げるものをいう。以下同じ。）を適正に取り扱うべき電気通信事業者として指定することができる。

Article 27-5Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may designate telecommunications carriers that provide telecommunications services specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as having a significant influence on the interests of users in consideration of their content, the scope of users, and their usage as telecommunications carriers that should handle specified user information (meaning information about a user obtained in regard to that telecommunications service, which is listed in the following; the same applies hereinafter) properly:

第二十七条の六前条の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、特定利用者情報の適正な取扱いを確保するため、次に掲げる事項に関する規程（以下「情報取扱規程」という。）を定め、当該指定の日から三月以内に、総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

Article 27-6(1)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, any telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article must establish regulations concerning the following matters (hereinafter referred to as "regulations for handling information") in order to ensure the proper handling of specified user information, and notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of those regulations within three months from the date of that designation:

２前条の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、情報取扱規程を変更したときは、遅滞なく、変更した事項を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(2)When a telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article has changed its regulations for handling information, the telecommunications carrier must notify the Minister of the changed matters without delay.

第二十七条の七総務大臣は、特定利用者情報の適正な取扱いを確保するため必要があると認めるときは、第二十七条の五の規定により指定された電気通信事業者に対し、当該電気通信事業者が前条各項の規定により届け出た情報取扱規程を変更すべきことを命ずることができる。

Article 27-7(1)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds it necessary in order to ensure the proper handling of specified user information, the Minister may order a telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 27-5 to change the regulations for handling information that the telecommunications carrier has notified the Minister of pursuant to the provisions of the paragraphs of the preceding Article.

２総務大臣は、第二十七条の五の規定により指定された電気通信事業者が情報取扱規程を遵守していないと認めるときは、当該電気通信事業者に対し、利用者の利益を保護するために必要な限度において、情報取扱規程を遵守すべきことを命ずることができる。

(2)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that a telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 27-5 does not observe its regulations for handling information, the Minister may order that telecommunications carrier to observe the regulations for handling information to the extent necessary to protect the interests of users.

第二十七条の八第二十七条の五の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、特定利用者情報の取扱いの透明性を確保するため、次に掲げる事項に関する方針（次項及び次条第二項において「情報取扱方針」という。）を定め、当該指定の日から三月以内に、公表しなければならない。

Article 27-8(1)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 27-5 must establish a policy concerning the following matters (referred to as a "information handling policy" in the following paragraph and the following Article, paragraph (2)) to ensure transparency in the handling of specified user information, and make the policy public within three months from the date of the designation:

２第二十七条の五の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、情報取扱方針を変更したときは、遅滞なく、これを公表しなければならない。

(2)When a telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to Article 27-5 has changed its information handling policy, it must make the change public without delay.

第二十七条の九第二十七条の五の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、毎事業年度、特定利用者情報の取扱いの状況について評価を実施しなければならない。

Article 27-9(1)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 27-5 must conduct an evaluation of the status of the handling of specified user information every fiscal year.

２第二十七条の五の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、前項の規定による評価の結果に基づき、必要があると認めるときは、情報取扱規程又は情報取扱方針を変更しなければならない。

(2)When a telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to Article 27-5 finds it necessary based on the results of the evaluation under the preceding paragraph, the telecommunications carrier must change its regulations for handling information or its information handling policy.

第二十七条の十第二十七条の五の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、第二十七条の六第一項各号に掲げる事項に関する業務を統括管理させるため、当該指定の日から三月以内に、事業運営上の重要な決定に参画する管理的地位にあり、かつ、利用者に関する情報の取扱いに関する一定の実務の経験その他の総務省令で定める要件を備える者のうちから、総務省令で定めるところにより、特定利用者情報統括管理者を選任しなければならない。

Article 27-10(1)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 27-5, within three months from the date of the designation, must appoint a general manager of specified user information who is responsible for the general management of the duties on the particulars listed in the items of Article 27-6, paragraph (1) from among persons in managerial positions who participate in making important decisions on business management and who possess specific practical experience in handling information regarding users or satisfy other requirements specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

２第二十七条の五の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、特定利用者情報統括管理者を選任し、又は解任したときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、遅滞なく、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(2)If a telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 27-5 appoints or dismisses a general manager of specified user information, it must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect without delay pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第二十七条の十一特定利用者情報統括管理者は、誠実にその職務を行わなければならない。

Article 27-11(1)A general manager of specified user information must perform their duties in a sincere manner.

２第二十七条の五の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、利用者の利益の保護に関し、特定利用者情報統括管理者のその職務を行う上での意見を尊重しなければならない。

(2)Regarding the protection of the interests of users, a telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 27-5 must respect the opinions of the general manager of specified user information that the manager holds concerning performing their duties.

第二十七条の十二電気通信事業者又は第三号事業を営む者（内容、利用者の範囲及び利用状況を勘案して利用者の利益に及ぼす影響が少なくないものとして総務省令で定める電気通信役務を提供する者に限る。）は、その利用者に対し電気通信役務を提供する際に、当該利用者の電気通信設備を送信先とする情報送信指令通信（利用者の電気通信設備が有する情報送信機能（利用者の電気通信設備に記録された当該利用者に関する情報を当該利用者以外の者の電気通信設備に送信する機能をいう。以下この条において同じ。）を起動する指令を与える電気通信の送信をいう。以下この条において同じ。）を行おうとするときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、当該情報送信指令通信が起動させる情報送信機能により送信されることとなる当該利用者に関する情報の内容、当該情報の送信先となる電気通信設備その他の総務省令で定める事項を当該利用者に通知し、又は当該利用者が容易に知り得る状態に置かなければならない。ただし、当該情報が次に掲げるものである場合は、この限りでない。

Article 27-12In providing telecommunications services to its users, when a telecommunications carrier or a person conducting item (iii) business (limited to persons that provide telecommunications services specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as having non-negligible influence on the interests of users, in consideration of their content, the scope of users, and their usage) intends to send information transmission order communications (meaning a telecommunications transmission that provides a command to activate the information transmission functions possessed by the telecommunications facilities of the user (meaning the function of transmitting information about the user recorded in the telecommunications facilities of the user to the telecommunications facilities of a person other than the user; hereinafter the same applies in this Article); hereinafter the same applies in this Article) to the telecommunications facilities of the users, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, that telecommunications carrier or person conducting item (iii) business, in advance, must notify those users of the contents of their information that is to be sent by information transmission functions activated by the information transmission order communications, the telecommunications facilities to which that information is to be sent, and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, or must make the abovementioned information readily available to those users; provided, however, that this does not apply if that information is any of the following:

第二十八条電気通信事業者は、次に掲げる場合には、その旨をその理由又は原因とともに、遅滞なく、総務大臣に報告しなければならない。

Article 28(1)In any of the following cases, a telecommunications carrier must report without delay to the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect including its reason or cause:

２電気通信事業者は、前項第二号イからハまでに掲げる事故が生ずるおそれがあると認められる事態として総務省令で定めるものが生じたと認めたときは、その旨をその理由又は原因とともに、遅滞なく、総務大臣に報告しなければならない。

(2)If a telecommunications carrier finds that any of the situations specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as a situation that could cause any of the accidents listed in item (ii), (a) through (c) of the preceding paragraph has occurred, the telecommunications carrier must report without delay to the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect including its reason or cause.

第二十九条総務大臣は、次の各号のいずれかに該当すると認めるときは、電気通信事業者に対し、利用者の利益又は公共の利益を確保するために必要な限度において、業務の方法の改善その他の措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。

Article 29(1)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that a telecommunications carrier falls under any of the following items, the Minister may order the telecommunications carrier to improve its method of conducting the operations or take other measures to the extent necessary for ensuring the interests of users or the public interest:

２総務大臣は、次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、当該各号に定める者に対し、利用者の利益を確保するために必要な限度において、業務の方法の改善その他の措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。

(2)If either of conditions set forth in the following items occur, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may order the person prescribed in those items to improve the methods of conducting its operations or take other measures to the extent necessary for ensuring the interests of users:

第三十条総務大臣は、総務省令で定めるところにより、第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者について、当該第二種指定電気通信設備を用いる電気通信役務の提供の業務に係る最近一年間における収益の額の、当該電気通信役務に係る業務区域と同一の区域内における全ての同種の電気通信役務の提供の業務に係る当該一年間における収益の額を合算した額に占める割合が総務省令で定める割合を超える場合において、当該割合の推移その他の事情を勘案して他の電気通信事業者との間の適正な競争関係を確保するため必要があると認めるときは、当該第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者を第三項、第五項及び第六項の規定の適用を受ける電気通信事業者として指定することができる。

Article 30(1)If the amount of the income that a telecommunications carrier installing Category II designated telecommunications facilities generated from its operation involved in providing telecommunications services using those facilities in the most recent year accounts for a proportion of the total amount of the income generated in the same year from all operations of the same kind involved in providing telecommunications services within the same area of the relevant carrier and that proportion exceeds the proportion specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and if the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds it necessary to ensure proper competition with other telecommunications carriers in consideration of changes in that proportion and other circumstances, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Minister may designate the relevant carrier as a telecommunications carrier to which the provisions of paragraphs (3), (5), and (6) are applied.

２総務大臣は、前項の規定による指定の必要がなくなつたと認めるときは、当該指定を解除しなければならない。

(2)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds the designation under the preceding paragraph is no longer necessary, the Minister must cancel the designation.

３第一項の規定により指定された電気通信事業者は、次に掲げる行為をしてはならない。

(3)The telecommunications carrier designated pursuant to paragraph (1) must not conduct any of the following acts:

４第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、次に掲げる行為をしてはならない。

(4)A telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must not conduct any of the following acts:

５総務大臣は、前二項の規定に違反する行為があると認めるときは、第一項の規定により指定された電気通信事業者又は第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者に対し、当該行為の停止又は変更を命ずることができる。

(5)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that an act undertaken by a telecommunications carrier that has been designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities violates the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the Minister may order the telecommunications carrier to suspend or change that act.

６第一項の規定により指定された電気通信事業者及び第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、電気通信役務に関する収支の状況その他その会計に関し総務省令で定める事項を公表しなければならない。

(6)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier that has been designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) and a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must make the status of income and expenditure for its telecommunications services and other particulars related to its accounting as specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications public.

第三十一条第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者（法人である場合に限る。以下この条において同じ。）の役員は、当該電気通信事業者の特定関係法人（当該電気通信事業者の子会社、当該電気通信事業者を子会社とする会社又は当該会社の子会社（当該電気通信事業者を除く。）である電気通信事業者に限る。）であつて、その役員を兼ねた場合には電気通信事業者間の適正な競争関係を阻害するおそれがあるものとして総務大臣が指定するもの（次項及び第百六十九条第二号において「特定関係事業者」という。）の役員を兼ねてはならない。

Article 31(1)An officer of a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities (limited to a corporation; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) must not concurrently serve as an officer of a corporation with a specific affiliation to the relevant carrier (limited to a telecommunications carrier which is the relevant carrier's subsidiary, a company that owns the relevant telecommunications carrier as its subsidiary, or that company's subsidiary (except for the relevant carrier itself)), as specified by the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications as one in which there is a possibility that appropriate competitive relationships between telecommunications carriers would be impaired if the relevant officer serves as an officer of that corporation (the relevant corporation is hereinafter referred to as a "carrier with a specific affiliation" in the following paragraph and Article 169, item (ii)).

２第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、次に掲げる行為をしてはならない。ただし、総務省令で定めるやむを得ない理由があるときは、この限りでない。

(2)A telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must not conduct the following acts; provided, however, that this does not apply if there are compelling reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications:

３第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、電気通信業務又はこれに付随する業務の全部又は一部を子会社に委託する場合には、当該委託に係る業務に関し前条第四項各号に掲げる行為及び前項各号に掲げる行為（同項ただし書の理由があるときにおいて行われる行為を除く。次項において同じ。）が行われないよう、当該委託を受けた子会社に対し必要かつ適切な監督を行わなければならない。

(3)If a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities entrusts all or a part of the telecommunications operations or any other operations incidental to them to its subsidiary, that carrier must conduct the necessary and proper supervision of the entrusted subsidiary so that the subsidiary does not conduct the acts listed in any of the items of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article or the preceding paragraph of this Article (excluding those conducted for the reason in the proviso of that paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph) in relation to the entrusted business.

４総務大臣は、第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者が第二項各号に掲げる行為を行つていると認めるとき、又は前項の委託を受けた子会社が前条第四項各号に掲げる行為若しくは第二項各号に掲げる行為を行つていると認めるときは、当該電気通信事業者に対し、同項各号に掲げる行為の停止若しくは変更を命じ、又は当該委託を受けた子会社による同条第四項各号に掲げる行為若しくは第二項各号に掲げる行為を停止させ、若しくは変更させるために必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。

(4)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities undertakes any act listed in the items of paragraph (2), or finds that the entrusted subsidiary referred to in the preceding paragraph undertakes any act listed in the items of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article or any act listed in the items of paragraph (2), the Minister may order the telecommunications carrier to suspend or change the act listed in the items of that paragraph, or take necessary measures to suspend or change the acts listed in the items of paragraph (4) of that Article or the acts listed in the items of paragraph (2) undertaken by the entrusted subsidiary.

５第一項、第三項及び前項に規定する「子会社」とは、法人がその総株主（株主総会において決議をすることができる事項の全部につき議決権を行使することができない株主を除き、会社法第八百七十九条第三項の規定により議決権を有するものとみなされる株主を含む。以下この項において同じ。）又は総社員の議決権の過半数を有する他の会社をいう。この場合において、法人及びその一若しくは二以上の子会社又は法人の一若しくは二以上の子会社がその総株主又は総社員の議決権の過半数を有する他の会社は、当該法人の子会社とみなす。

(5)The term "subsidiary" prescribed in paragraph (1), paragraph (3) and the preceding paragraph means a company for which a majority of the voting rights of all shareholders (excluding shareholders that cannot exercise their voting rights with regard to all particulars that may be resolved at the shareholders meetings, and including shareholders that are deemed to have voting rights pursuant to the provisions of Article 879, paragraph (3) of the Companies Act; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) or all employees of the company is held by another corporation. In this case, a company in which a corporation and one or more of its subsidiaries hold the majority of all voting rights of all shareholders or all employees or in which one or more of a corporation's subsidiaries hold the majority of all shareholders or all employees is deemed to be the subsidiary of that corporation.

６第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、他の電気通信事業者との間の適正な競争関係を確保するため、総務省令で定めるところにより、当該第一種指定電気通信設備と他の電気通信事業者の電気通信設備との接続の業務に関して知り得た情報を適正に管理し、かつ、当該接続の業務の実施状況を適切に監視するための体制の整備その他必要な措置を講じなければならない。

(6)In order to ensure an appropriate competitive relationship with other telecommunications carriers, a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must establish a system or take other necessary measures to properly control the information which came to its knowledge in relation to the operations involved in interconnection between the Category I designated telecommunications facilities and the telecommunications facilities of the other telecommunications carrier and to properly supervise the status of the implementation of those operations, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

７前項に規定する体制の整備その他必要な措置は、次に掲げる事項を含むものでなければならない。

(7)The system or other necessary measures specified in the preceding paragraph must include the following particulars:

８第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、毎年、総務省令で定めるところにより、第二項、第三項及び第五項の規定の遵守のために講じた措置及びその実施状況に関し総務省令で定める事項を総務大臣に報告しなければならない。

(8)Every year, a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must report to the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications on particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications with respect to the measures it has taken to comply with the provisions of paragraph (2), (3), and (6) and the status of implementation of those measures, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第三十二条電気通信事業者は、他の電気通信事業者から当該他の電気通信事業者の電気通信設備をその設置する電気通信回線設備に接続すべき旨の請求を受けたときは、次に掲げる場合を除き、これに応じなければならない。

Article 32If a telecommunications carrier receives a request from another telecommunications carrier to interconnect the telecommunications facilities of the requesting telecommunications carrier with the telecommunications line facilities of the requested telecommunications carrier, it must accept the request except for the following cases:

第三十三条総務大臣は、総務省令で定めるところにより、その一端が利用者の電気通信設備（移動端末設備を除く。）と接続される伝送路設備のうち同一の電気通信事業者が設置するものであつて、その伝送路設備の電気通信回線の数の、その伝送路設備が設置される都道府県の区域内に設置される全ての同種の伝送路設備の電気通信回線の数のうちに占める割合として総務省令で定める方法により算定した割合が総務省令で定める割合を超えるもの及び当該電気通信事業者が当該伝送路設備を用いる電気通信役務を提供するために設置する電気通信設備であつて総務省令で定めるものの総体を、他の電気通信事業者の電気通信設備との接続が利用者の利便の向上及び電気通信の総合的かつ合理的な発達に欠くことのできない電気通信設備として指定することができる。

Article 33(1)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may designate the aggregates of the following as telecommunications facilities whose interconnection with telecommunications facilities of other telecommunications carriers is indispensable for improving convenience of users and developing telecommunications in a comprehensive and reasonable manner: transmission line facilities which are installed by a single telecommunications carrier and interconnected to the user's telecommunications facilities (except for mobile terminal facilities) at one end and whose transmission line facilities come to account for a proportion that is calculated by the method specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as the proportion of the number of telecommunications lines of all transmission line facilities of the same type installed within the prefecture in which those transmission line facilities are to be installed, and that exceeds the proportion specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; and telecommunications facilities specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications which are installed by the telecommunications carrier for the purpose of providing telecommunications services using those transmission line facilities.

２前項の規定により指定された電気通信設備（以下「第一種指定電気通信設備」という。）を設置する電気通信事業者は、当該第一種指定電気通信設備と他の電気通信事業者の電気通信設備との接続に関し、当該第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者が取得すべき金額（以下この条において「接続料」という。）及び他の電気通信事業者の電気通信設備との接続箇所における技術的条件、電気通信役務に関する料金を定める電気通信事業者の別その他の接続の条件（以下「接続条件」という。）について接続約款を定め、総務大臣の認可を受けなければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする。

(2)A telecommunications carrier installing telecommunications facilities designated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "Category I designated telecommunications facilities") must establish general conditions of contracts for interconnection between the Category I designated telecommunications facilities and other telecommunications carriers' telecommunications facilities, concerning the amount of money that the telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities is to receive (hereinafter referred to as "interconnection charges" in this Article), the technical conditions required at the points of interconnection with other telecommunications carriers' telecommunications facilities, and other terms and conditions of interconnection, including classifications of telecommunications carriers according to which charges for telecommunications services are specified (hereinafter referred to as "terms and conditions of interconnection"), and must obtain authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications. The same also applies if it intends to change those general conditions of contracts for interconnection.

３前項の認可を受けるべき接続約款に定める接続料及び接続条件であつて、その内容からみて利用者の利便の向上及び電気通信の総合的かつ合理的な発達に及ぼす影響が比較的少ないものとして総務省令で定めるものは、同項の規定にかかわらず、その認可を要しないものとする。

(3)Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, among interconnection charges and terms and conditions of interconnection as specified in the general conditions of contracts for interconnection for which authorization is to be obtained as set forth in the preceding paragraph, authorization is not required to be obtained for those specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as having a comparatively small influence on improving user convenience and developing telecommunications in a comprehensive and reasonable manner.

４総務大臣は、第二項（第十六項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。以下この項、第六項、第九項、第十項及び第十四項において同じ。）の認可の申請が次の各号のいずれにも適合していると認めるときは、第二項の認可をしなければならない。

(4)The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications must grant permission as set forth in paragraph (2) if the Minister finds that an application for authorization as set forth in paragraph (2) (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (16) following the deemed replacement of terms; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph, paragraph (6), paragraph (9), paragraph (10) and paragraph (14)) complies with all of the following items:

５前項第二号の総務省令で定める方法（同項第一号ロの総務省令で定める機能のうち、高度で新しい電気通信技術の導入によつて、第一種指定電気通信設備との接続による当該機能に係る電気通信役務の提供の効率化が相当程度図られると認められるものとして総務省令で定める機能に係る接続料について定めるものに限る。）は、第一種指定電気通信設備を通常用いることができる高度で新しい電気通信技術を利用した効率的なものとなるように新たに構成するものとした場合に当該第一種指定電気通信設備との接続により当該第一種指定電気通信設備によつて提供される電気通信役務に係る通信量又は回線数の増加に応じて増加することとなる当該第一種指定電気通信設備に係る費用を勘案して金額を算定するものでなければならない。

(5)The methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as set forth in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph (limited to those which specify interconnection charges for functions specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as the functions specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as set forth in item (i), (b) of that paragraph, that are found to have the potential to achieve increased efficiency in provision of telecommunications services through interconnection with Category I designated telecommunications facilities to a considerable extent, by the introduction of advanced new telecommunications technologies) must be those by which the amount is calculated in consideration of the expenses for the Category I designated telecommunications facilities which will increase in accordance with an increase in the amount of traffic or the number of circuits for the telecommunications services provided by the those facilities through their interconnection, if the relevant Category I designated telecommunications facilities are reorganized to improve their efficiency with the use of advanced new telecommunications technologies that are generally available.

６総務大臣は、第二項の認可を受けた接続約款で定める接続料が第四項第二号に規定する金額に照らして不適当となつたため又は当該接続約款で定める接続条件が社会的経済的事情の変動により著しく不適当となつたため公共の利益の増進に支障があると認めるときは、第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者に対し、相当の期限を定め、当該接続約款の変更の認可を申請すべきことを命ずることができる。

(6)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that promotion of the public interest is hindered because the interconnection charges specified in the general conditions of contracts for interconnection which have been authorized as set forth in paragraph (2) become inappropriate in light of the amount set forth in paragraph (4), item (ii), or because the terms and conditions of interconnection specified in the general conditions of contracts for interconnection become particularly inappropriate due to changes in the social and economic circumstances, the Minister may order the telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities to apply for authorization for a change of the general conditions of contracts for interconnection within a reasonable period designated by the Minister.

７第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、その設置する第一種指定電気通信設備との接続に関する接続料及び接続条件であつて、第三項の総務省令で定めるものについて接続約款を定め、その実施前に総務大臣に届け出なければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする。

(7)A telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must establish the general conditions of contracts for interconnection for interconnection charges and terms and conditions of interconnection specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, as set forth in paragraph (3), for interconnection with their Category I designated telecommunications facilities, and must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of those general conditions before their implementation. The same also applies if it intends to change them.

８総務大臣は、前項（第十七項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）の規定により届け出た接続約款で定める接続料又は接続条件が公共の利益の増進に支障があると認めるときは、当該届出をした第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者に対し、相当の期限を定め、当該接続約款を変更すべきことを命ずることができる。

(8)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that the interconnection charges or terms and conditions of interconnection specified in the general conditions of contracts for interconnection for which notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (including as applied pursuant to the provision of paragraph (17) following the deemed replacement of terms) hinder promotion of the public interest, the Minister may order the telecommunications carrier that has given the notification and is installing the Category I designated telecommunications facilities to change the general conditions of contracts for interconnection within a reasonable period designated by the Minister.

９第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、第二項の規定により認可を受け、又は第七項（第十七項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）の規定により届け出た接続約款（以下この条において「認可接続約款等」という。）によらなければ、他の電気通信事業者との間において、その設置する第一種指定電気通信設備との接続に関する協定を締結し、又は変更してはならない。

(9)A telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must not conclude or amend an agreement with other telecommunications carriers on interconnection with the relevant Category I designated telecommunications facilities, unless the action is conducted in accordance with the general conditions of contracts for interconnection authorized pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) or the general conditions of contracts for interconnection for which notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (7) (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (17) following the deemed replacement of terms) (hereinafter referred to as "authorized or notified general conditions of contracts for interconnection" in this Article).

１０前項の規定にかかわらず、認可接続約款等により難い特別な事情があるときは、第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、総務大臣の認可を受けて、当該認可接続約款等で定める接続料及び接続条件と異なる接続料及び接続条件（第二項に規定する接続料及び接続条件に該当するものにあつては、第四項各号（第一号イ及びロを除く。）のいずれにも適合しているものに限る。）によりその設置する第一種指定電気通信設備との接続に関する協定を締結し、又は変更することができる。

(10)Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if there are special circumstances that make it difficult to comply with authorized or notified general conditions of contracts for interconnection upon authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities may conclude or amend an agreement on interconnection with the relevant Category I designated telecommunications facilities through interconnection charges and terms and conditions of interconnection different from those specified in the authorized or notified general conditions of contracts for interconnection (limited to those conforming to all items (except item (i), (a) and (b)) in paragraph (4), in cases of those that fall under the interconnection charges and terms and conditions of interconnection as set forth in paragraph (2)).

１１第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、認可接続約款等を公表しなければならない。

(11)A telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must make its authorized or notified general conditions of contracts for interconnection public, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

１２第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、当該第一種指定電気通信設備との接続に係る第四項第一号ロの総務省令で定める機能ごとに、通信量又は回線数その他総務省令で定める事項（第十四項において「通信量等」という。）を記録しておかなければならない。

(12)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must keep records of the amount of traffic, the number of circuits, or other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (referred to as "amount of traffic or other particulars" in paragraph (14)) for respective functions specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, as set forth in paragraph (4), item (i), (b), in relation to interconnection with the Category I designated telecommunications facilities.

１３第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、当該第一種指定電気通信設備との接続に関する会計を整理し、及びこれに基づき当該接続に関する収支の状況その他総務省令で定める事項を公表しなければならない。

(13)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier installing those Category I designated telecommunications facilities must keep accounts for interconnection with its Category I designated telecommunications facilities, and based on the accounting, make the status of income and expenditure regarding the interconnection and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications public.

１４第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、第五項に規定する接続料にあつては第二項の認可を受けた後五年を超えない範囲内で総務省令で定める期間を経過するごとに、それ以外の接続料にあつては前項の規定により毎事業年度の会計を整理したときに、通信量等の記録及び同項の規定による会計の整理の結果に基づき第四項第二号の総務省令で定める方法により算定された金額に照らし公正妥当なものとするために、接続料を再計算しなければならない。

(14)In order to keep the interconnection charges fair and justifiable, a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must recalculate the interconnection charges, in light of the amount calculated by methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as set forth in paragraph (4) item (ii), based on records of the amount of traffic or other particulars and on the results of accounts as set forth in the preceding paragraph, every time a period not exceeding five years as specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has passed, after the date of authorization set forth in paragraph (2) in cases of interconnection charges set forth in paragraph (5), or every time a telecommunications carrier has closed accounts for the preceding fiscal year pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph in cases of other interconnection charges.

１５第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、他の電気通信事業者がその電気通信設備と当該第一種指定電気通信設備との接続を円滑に行うために必要な情報の提供に努めなければならない。

(15)A telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must endeavor to provide other telecommunications carriers with any information necessary for smooth interconnection between their telecommunications facilities and those Category I designated telecommunications facilities.

１６第一項の規定により新たに指定をされた電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者がその指定の日以後最初に第二項の規定により総務大臣の認可を受けるべき接続約款に定める接続料及び接続条件については、同項中「総務大臣の認可を受けなければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする」とあるのは、「前項の規定により新たに指定をされた日から三月以内に、総務大臣に対し、認可の申請をしなければならない」とする。

(16)With regard to interconnection charges and terms and conditions of interconnection specified in the general conditions of contracts for interconnection for which a telecommunications carrier installing telecommunications facilities newly designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) is to obtain authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications for the first time after the date of designation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), the phrase "must obtain authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications. The same also applies when it intends to change those general conditions of contracts for interconnection" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "must apply for authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications within three months from the date on which the designation is newly granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph".

１７第一項の規定により新たに指定をされた電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者がその指定の日以後最初に第七項の規定により総務大臣に届け出るべき接続約款に定める接続料及び接続条件については、同項中「その実施前に総務大臣に届け出なければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする」とあるのは、「第一項の規定により新たに指定をされた日から三月以内に、総務大臣に届け出なければならない」とする。

(17)With regard to interconnection charges and the terms and conditions of interconnection specified in the general conditions of contracts for interconnection of which the telecommunications carrier installing the telecommunications facilities newly designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) is to notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications for the first time after the date of the designation pursuant to the provision of paragraph (7), the phrase "must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of those general conditions before their implementation. The same also applies when it intends to change them" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of those general conditions within three months from the date on which designation is newly granted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1)".

１８第一項の規定により新たに指定をされた電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者が、第十六項の規定により読み替えて適用する第二項の規定により当該電気通信事業者が認可の申請をした接続約款に対する総務大臣の認可があつた日又は前項の規定により読み替えて適用する第七項の規定により当該電気通信事業者が接続約款を届け出た日のいずれか遅い日（以下この項において「起算日」という。）に現に締結している他の電気通信事業者との電気通信設備の接続に関する協定のうち当該新たに指定をされた電気通信設備との接続に関するものについては、第九項の規定は、起算日から起算して三月間は、適用しない。

(18)The provisions of paragraph (9) do not apply for three months from whichever date comes later: the date on which the authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications is granted with respect to the general conditions of contracts for interconnection that the telecommunications carrier installing the telecommunications facilities newly designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) has applied for pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (16) following the deemed replacement of terms; or the date on which the notification of the general conditions of contracts for interconnection is filed by the telecommunications carrier pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (7) as applied pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms (hereinafter referred to as "initial date of calculation" in this paragraph) to the agreements on interconnection that the telecommunications carrier has concluded with other telecommunications carriers as of the initial date of calculation that are related to the newly designated telecommunications facilities.

第三十三条の二第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、当該第一種指定電気通信設備との接続に係る前条第四項第一号ロの総務省令で定める機能を休止し、又は廃止しようとするときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、当該第一種指定電気通信設備とその電気通信設備を接続する他の電気通信事業者であつて当該機能を利用するものに対し、その旨を周知させなければならない。

Article 33-2If a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities intends to suspend or discontinue functions specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as prescribed in paragraph (4), item (i), (b) of the preceding Article for interconnection with the relevant Category I designated telecommunications facilities, it must make this known to other telecommunications carriers whose telecommunications facilities are interconnected to the relevant Category I designated telecommunications facilities and that are using the relevant functions, in advance, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第三十四条総務大臣は、総務省令で定めるところにより、その一端が特定移動端末設備と接続される伝送路設備のうち同一の電気通信事業者が設置するものであつて、その伝送路設備に接続される特定移動端末設備の数の、その伝送路設備を用いる電気通信役務に係る業務区域と同一の区域内に設置されている全ての同種の伝送路設備に接続される特定移動端末設備の数のうちに占める割合が総務省令で定める割合を超えるもの及び当該電気通信事業者が当該電気通信役務を提供するために設置する電気通信設備であつて総務省令で定めるものの総体を、他の電気通信事業者の電気通信設備との適正かつ円滑な接続を確保すべき電気通信設備として指定することができる。

Article 34(1)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may designate the aggregates of the following as telecommunications facilities whose appropriate and smooth interconnection with the telecommunications facilities of other telecommunications carriers is to be ensured: transmission line facilities which are installed by a single telecommunications carrier and interconnected to the specified mobile terminal facilities at one end, and whose specified mobile terminal facilities represent a proportion exceeding the proportion specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of the total number of specified mobile terminal facilities interconnected to all transmission line facilities of the same type installed within the same service area of the telecommunications services provided by using the relevant transmission line facilities; and telecommunications facilities specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications which are installed by the telecommunications carrier to provide the telecommunications services.

２前項の規定により指定された電気通信設備（以下「第二種指定電気通信設備」という。）を設置する電気通信事業者は、当該第二種指定電気通信設備と他の電気通信事業者の電気通信設備との接続に関し、当該第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者が取得すべき金額及び接続条件について接続約款を定め、総務省令で定めるところにより、その実施前に、総務大臣に届け出なければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする。

(2)A telecommunications carrier installing telecommunications facilities designated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "Category II designated telecommunications facilities") must establish the general conditions of contracts for interconnection between the Category II designated telecommunications facilities and other telecommunications carriers' facilities, concerning the amount of money that the telecommunications carrier installing the Category II designated telecommunications facilities is to receive, and the terms and conditions of interconnection, and notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of those general conditions before their implementation, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The same also applies if it intends to change them.

３総務大臣は、前項（第八項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）の規定により届け出た接続約款が次の各号のいずれかに該当すると認めるときは、当該第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者に対し、相当の期限を定め、当該接続約款を変更すべきことを命ずることができる。

(3)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that the general conditions of contracts for interconnection for which notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (8) following the deemed replacement of the terms) fall under any of the following items, the Minister may order the telecommunications carrier installing the Category II designated telecommunications facilities to change the general conditions of contracts for interconnection within a reasonable period designated by the Minister:

４第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、第二項（第八項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。次項において同じ。）の規定により届け出た接続約款によらなければ、他の電気通信事業者との間において、第二種指定電気通信設備との接続に関する協定を締結し、又は変更してはならない。

(4)A telecommunications carrier installing Category II designated telecommunications facilities must not conclude or amend an agreement with other telecommunications carriers on interconnection with the Category II designated telecommunications facilities, unless the action is conducted in accordance with the general conditions of contracts for interconnection of which the notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) (including as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (8) following the deemed replacement of terms; the same applies in the following paragraph).

５第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、第二項の規定により届け出た接続約款を公表しなければならない。

(5)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier installing Category II designated telecommunications facilities must make public the general conditions of contracts for interconnection for which notification has been made pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2).

６第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、第二種指定電気通信設備との接続に関する会計を整理し、及びこれに基づき当該接続に関する収支の状況その他総務省令で定める事項を公表しなければならない。

(6)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier installing Category II designated telecommunications facilities must keep accounts for interconnection with its Category II designated telecommunications facilities, and based on the accounting, make the status of income and expenditure regarding the interconnection and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications public.

７第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、他の電気通信事業者がその電気通信設備と第二種指定電気通信設備との接続を円滑に行うために必要な情報の提供に努めなければならない。

(7)A telecommunications carrier installing Category II designated telecommunications facilities must endeavor to provide other telecommunications carriers with any information for smooth interconnection between their telecommunications facilities and the Category II designated telecommunications facilities.

８第一項の規定により新たに指定をされた電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者がその指定の日以後最初に第二項の規定により総務大臣に届け出るべき接続約款に定める当該電気通信事業者が取得すべき金額及び接続条件については、同項中「その実施前に、総務大臣に届け出なければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする。」とあるのは、「前項の規定により新たに指定をされた日から三月以内に、総務大臣に届け出なければならない。」とする。

(8)With regard to the amount of money that a telecommunications carrier installing telecommunications facilities newly designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) is to receive, and the terms and conditions of interconnection, as specified in the general conditions of contracts for interconnection of which the telecommunications carrier is to notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications for the first time after the date of designation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), the phrase "and notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of the general conditions of contracts prior to their implementation, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication. The same also applies to the cases in which it intends to change those general conditions of contracts" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "and notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of the general conditions of contracts within three months from the date on which designation is newly granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication".

９第一項の規定により新たに指定をされた電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者が、前項の規定により読み替えて適用する第二項の規定により当該電気通信事業者が接続約款の届出をした日（以下この項において「届出日」という。）に現に締結している他の電気通信事業者との電気通信設備の接続に関する協定のうち当該新たに指定をされた電気通信設備との接続に関するものについては、第四項の規定は、届出日から起算して三月間は、適用しない。

(9)For three months from the date on which the notification of the general conditions of contracts for interconnection is filed by the telecommunications carrier pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), as applied pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph following the deemed replacement of terms (hereinafter referred to as "date of notification"), the provisions of paragraph (4) do not apply to the agreements on interconnection that a telecommunications carrier installing telecommunications facilities newly designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) has concluded with other telecommunications carriers as of the date of notification that are related to interconnection with the newly designated telecommunications facilities.

第三十四条の二第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、当該第二種指定電気通信設備との接続に係る前条第三項第一号ロの総務省令で定める機能を休止し、又は廃止しようとするときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、当該第二種指定電気通信設備とその電気通信設備を接続する他の電気通信事業者であつて当該機能を利用するものに対し、その旨を周知させなければならない。

Article 34-2If a telecommunications carrier installing Category II designated telecommunications facilities intends to suspend or discontinue functions specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as prescribed in item (i), (b) of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article related to interconnection with the relevant Category II designated telecommunications facilities, it must make this known to other telecommunications carriers whose telecommunications facilities are interconnected to the relevant Category II designated telecommunications facilities and that are using the relevant functions, in advance, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第三十五条総務大臣は、電気通信事業者が他の電気通信事業者に対し当該他の電気通信事業者が設置する電気通信回線設備と当該電気通信事業者の電気通信設備との接続に関する協定の締結を申し入れたにもかかわらず当該他の電気通信事業者がその協議に応じず、又は当該協議が調わなかつた場合で、当該協定の締結を申し入れた電気通信事業者から申立てがあつたときは、第三十二条各号に掲げる場合に該当すると認めるとき及び第百五十五条第一項の規定による仲裁の申請がされているときを除き、当該他の電気通信事業者に対し、その協議の開始又は再開を命ずるものとする。

Article 35(1)If a telecommunications carrier requests another telecommunications carrier to conclude an agreement on interconnection between the requested telecommunications carrier's telecommunications line facilities and the requesting telecommunications carrier's telecommunications facilities, but the requested telecommunications carrier refuses to hold negotiations or those negotiations fail, resulting in the requesting telecommunications carrier filing a petition, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications is to order the requested telecommunications carrier to start or restart those negotiations, except for cases in which the Minister finds that interconnection falls under the items of Article 32 or an application for arbitration has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 155, paragraph (1).

２総務大臣は、前項に規定する場合のほか、電気通信事業者間において、その一方が電気通信設備の接続に関する協定の締結を申し入れたにもかかわらず他の一方がその協議に応じず、又は当該協議が調わなかつた場合で、当該一方の電気通信事業者から申立てがあつた場合において、その接続が公共の利益を増進するために特に必要であり、かつ、適切であると認めるときは、第百五十五条第一項の規定による仲裁の申請がされているときを除き、他の一方の電気通信事業者に対し、その協議の開始又は再開を命ずることができる。

(2)Beyond the cases set forth in the preceding paragraph, if a telecommunications carrier requests another telecommunications carrier to conclude an agreement on interconnection between the requested telecommunications carrier's telecommunications facilities and those of the requesting telecommunications carrier, but the requested telecommunications carrier refuses to hold negotiations or those negotiations fail, resulting in the requesting telecommunications carrier filing a petition; and if the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that that interconnection is particularly necessary and appropriate for increasing the public interest, the Minister may order the requested telecommunications carrier to start or restart those negotiations, except for cases in which an application for arbitration has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 155, paragraph (1).

３電気通信事業者の電気通信設備との接続に関し、当事者が取得し、若しくは負担すべき金額又は接続条件その他協定の細目について当事者間の協議が調わないときは、当該電気通信設備に接続する電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、総務大臣の裁定を申請することができる。ただし、当事者が第百五十五条第一項の規定による仲裁の申請をした後は、この限りでない。

(3)If negotiations between the parties about interconnection with a telecommunications carrier's telecommunications facilities fail on the amount of money that is to be received or paid by the parties, the terms and conditions of interconnection, or other details of the agreement, the telecommunications carrier installing telecommunications facilities to be interconnected to them may apply to the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications for a ruling; provided, however, that this does not apply if any party has already filed an application for arbitration under Article 155, paragraph (1).

４前項に規定する場合のほか、第一項又は第二項の規定による命令があつた場合において、当事者が取得し、若しくは負担すべき金額又は接続条件その他協定の細目について、当事者間の協議が調わないときは、当事者は、総務大臣の裁定を申請することができる。

(4)Beyond the cases set forth in the preceding paragraph, if an order has been issued pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2), and negotiations between the parties fail on the amount of money that is to be received or paid by the parties, the terms and conditions of interconnection, or the details of the agreement, the relevant party may apply to the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communication for a ruling.

５総務大臣は、前二項の規定による裁定の申請を受理したときは、その旨を他の当事者に通知し、期間を指定して答弁書を提出する機会を与えなければならない。

(5)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications receives the application for a ruling under the preceding two paragraphs, the Minister must notify the other party to that effect, and must give that other party an opportunity to file written answers within a period designated by the Minister.

６総務大臣は、第三項又は第四項の裁定をしたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を当事者に通知しなければならない。

(6)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications makes a ruling as set forth in paragraph (3) or (4), the Minister must notify the parties to that effect without delay.

７第三項又は第四項の裁定があつたときは、その裁定の定めるところに従い、当事者間に協議が調つたものとみなす。

(7)If a ruling is made as set forth in paragraph (3) or paragraph (4), the negotiations between the parties are deemed to have reached agreement in accordance with the ruling.

８第三項又は第四項の裁定のうち当事者が取得し、又は負担すべき金額について不服のある者は、その裁定があつたことを知つた日から六月以内に、訴えをもつてその金額の増減を請求することができる。

(8)Any of the parties that are dissatisfied with the ruling set forth in paragraph (3) or (4) with regard to the amount of money that is to be received or paid by the party may demand an increase or decrease in that amount by filing an action within six months from the date on which the party is informed of the ruling.

９前項の訴えにおいては、他の当事者を被告とする。

(9)In filing an action as set forth in the preceding paragraph, the other party is the defendant.

１０第三項又は第四項の裁定についての審査請求においては、当事者が取得し、又は負担すべき金額についての不服をその裁定の不服の理由とすることができない。

(10)Dissatisfaction with the amount of money that is to be received or paid by the party may not be used as grounds to appeal the ruling set forth in paragraph (3) or (4).

第三十六条第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、当該第一種指定電気通信設備の機能（総務省令で定めるものを除く。）の変更又は追加の計画を有するときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、その計画を当該工事の開始の日の総務省令で定める日数前までに総務大臣に届け出なければならない。その届け出た計画を変更しようとするときも、同様とする。

Article 36(1)If a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities has a plan to change or make an addition to existing functions (except those specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) of the Category I designated telecommunications facilities, it must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of the plan pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications by the period before the date on which the installation work starts as specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The same also applies if it intends to change the plan notified to the Minister.

２第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、前項の規定により届け出た計画を公表しなければならない。

(2)Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities must make public the plan for which the notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

３総務大臣は、第一項の規定による届出があつた場合において、その届け出た計画の実施により他の電気通信事業者の電気通信設備と第一種指定電気通信設備との円滑な接続に支障が生ずるおそれがあると認めるときは、当該第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者に対し、その計画を変更すべきことを勧告することができる。

(3)If a notification is filed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) and the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that the implementation of the notified plan is likely to hinder the smooth interconnection between the Category I designated telecommunications facilities and those of another telecommunications carrier, the Minister may recommend the telecommunications carrier installing the Category I designated telecommunications facilities to change its plan.

第三十七条第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、他の電気通信事業者と当該第一種指定電気通信設備の共用に関する協定を締結し、又は変更しようとするときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

Article 37(1)If a telecommunications carrier installing Category I designated telecommunications facilities intends to conclude or amend an agreement with other telecommunications carriers on sharing its Category I designated telecommunications facilities, it must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of it in advance pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

２第三十三条第一項の規定により新たに指定をされた電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、当該指定の際現に当該電気通信事業者が締結している他の電気通信事業者との協定のうち当該電気通信設備の共用に関するものを、総務省令で定めるところにより、遅滞なく、総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(2)A telecommunications carrier installing telecommunications facilities newly designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 33, paragraph (1) must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of the agreement on sharing the telecommunications facilities that it has concluded with other telecommunications carriers as of the time of the designation, without delay, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第三十八条総務大臣は、電気通信事業者間においてその一方が電気通信設備又は電気通信設備設置用工作物（電気通信事業者が電気通信設備を設置するために使用する建物その他の工作物をいう。以下同じ。）の共用に関する協定の締結を申し入れたにもかかわらず他の一方がその協議に応じず又は当該協議が調わなかつた場合で、当該一方の電気通信事業者から申立てがあつた場合において、その共用が公共の利益を増進するために特に必要であり、かつ、適切であると認めるときは、第百五十六条第一項において準用する第百五十五条第一項の規定による仲裁の申請がされているときを除き、他の一方の電気通信事業者に対し、その協議の開始又は再開を命ずることができる。

Article 38(1)If a telecommunications carrier requests another telecommunications carrier to conclude an agreement on sharing telecommunications facilities or structures for telecommunications facilities installation (meaning buildings and other structures used by telecommunications carriers to install telecommunications facilities; the same applies hereinafter), but the requested telecommunications carrier refuses to hold negotiations or those negotiations fail, resulting in the requesting telecommunications carrier filing a petition, and if the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds that the relevant sharing is particularly necessary and appropriate for increasing the public interest, the Minister may order the requested telecommunications carrier to start or restart negotiations, except for the cases in which an application for arbitration is filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 155, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 156, paragraph (1).

２第三十五条第三項から第十項までの規定は、電気通信設備又は電気通信設備設置用工作物の共用について準用する。この場合において、同条第三項及び第四項中「接続条件」とあるのは「共用の条件」と、同条第三項中「電気通信設備に接続する電気通信設備を設置する」とあるのは「電気通信事業者と協定を締結しようとする」と、「第百五十五条第一項」とあるのは「第百五十六条第一項において準用する第百五十五条第一項」と、同条第四項中「第一項又は第二項」とあるのは「第三十八条第一項」と読み替えるものとする。

(2)The provisions of Article 35, paragraphs (3) through (10) apply mutandis to the sharing of telecommunications facilities or structures for telecommunications facilities installation. In this case, the term "terms and conditions of interconnection" in paragraph (3) and paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "terms and conditions for sharing"; the phrase "installing telecommunications facilities to be interconnected with the telecommunications facilities" and the term "Article 155, paragraph (1)" in paragraph (3) of that Article are deemed to be replaced with "that intends to conclude an agreement with the telecommunications carrier" and "Article 155, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 156, paragraph (1)", respectively; and, the term "paragraph (1) or paragraph (2)" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 38, paragraph (1)".

第三十八条の二第一種指定電気通信設備又は第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者は、当該第一種指定電気通信設備又は第二種指定電気通信設備を用いる卸電気通信役務の提供の業務を開始したときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、遅滞なく、その旨、総務省令で定める区分ごとの卸電気通信役務の種類その他総務省令で定める事項を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。届け出た事項を変更し、又は当該業務を廃止したときも、同様とする。

Article 38-2(1)If a telecommunications carrier installing Category I or Category II designated telecommunications facilities commences the operations involved in providing wholesale telecommunications services by using those Category I or Category II designated telecommunications facilities, the telecommunications carrier must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of the commencement of those services, the type of wholesale telecommunications services by each classification specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, without delay, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The same applies if it changes the particulars for which notification has been made, or discontinues those operations.

２特定卸電気通信役務（第一種指定電気通信設備又は第二種指定電気通信設備を用いる卸電気通信役務のうち、電気通信事業者間の適正な競争関係に及ぼす影響が少ないものとして総務省令で定めるもの以外のものをいう。以下同じ。）を提供する電気通信事業者は、正当な理由がなければ、その業務区域における当該特定卸電気通信役務の提供を拒んではならない。

(2)A telecommunications carrier that provides specified wholesale telecommunications services (meaning wholesale telecommunications services using Category I or II designated telecommunications facilities other than those specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as having little impact on appropriate competitive relationships among telecommunications carriers; hereinafter the same applies) must not refuse to do so within its service areas without just cause.

３特定卸電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、当該特定卸電気通信役務の提供に関する契約の締結の申入れを受けた場合において、当該特定卸電気通信役務に関し、当該申入れをした電気通信事業者の負担すべき金額その他の提供の条件について提示をする時までに、当該申入れをした電気通信事業者から、当該提示と併せて当該金額の算定方法その他特定卸電気通信役務の提供に関する契約の締結に関する協議の円滑化に資する事項として総務省令で定める事項を提示するよう求められたときは、正当な理由がなければ、これを拒んではならない。

(3)If a telecommunications carrier that provides specified wholesale telecommunications services receives an offer for conclusion of a contract for the provision of those services and, before presenting the amount of money that the requesting telecommunications carrier is to pay and other terms and conditions for the provision of those services, the requested carrier is requested to present the abovementioned information together with the method for calculation of that amount and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as the information that would contribute to smoothing negotiations regarding conclusion of the contract in question, the requested carrier must not refuse their presentation without just cause.

４総務大臣は、特定卸電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者が前項の規定に違反したときは、当該電気通信事業者に対し、公共の利益を確保するために必要な限度において、業務の方法の改善その他の措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。

(4)If a telecommunications carrier who provides specified wholesale telecommunications services violates the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications may order the telecommunications carrier to improve its methods of conducting the operations or take other measures to the extent necessary for ensuring the public interest.

第三十九条第三十五条第一項及び第三項から第十項まで並びに第三十八条第一項の規定は、卸電気通信役務の提供について準用する。この場合において、第三十五条第一項中「当該他の電気通信事業者が設置する電気通信回線設備と当該電気通信事業者の電気通信設備との接続」とあるのは「第三十八条の二第二項に規定する特定卸電気通信役務の提供」と、同項並びに同条第三項及び第四項並びに第三十八条第一項中「協定」とあるのは「契約」と、第三十五条第一項中「第三十二条各号に掲げる場合に該当する」とあるのは「同項に規定する正当な理由がある」と、同項及び同条第三項ただし書中「第百五十五条第一項」とあるのは「第百五十六条第二項において準用する第百五十五条第一項」と、同項及び同条第四項中「接続条件」とあるのは「提供の条件」と、同条第三項中「電気通信設備に接続する電気通信設備を設置する」とあるのは「卸電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者と契約を締結しようとする」と、同条第四項中「第二項」とあるのは「第三十八条第一項」と、第三十八条第一項中「電気通信設備又は電気通信設備設置用工作物（電気通信事業者が電気通信設備を設置するために使用する建物その他の工作物をいう。以下同じ。）の共用」とあるのは「次条第二項に規定する特定卸電気通信役務以外の卸電気通信役務の提供」と、「その共用」とあるのは「その提供」と、「第百五十六条第一項」とあるのは「第百五十六条第二項」と読み替えるものとする。

Article 39The provisions of Article 35, paragraph (1) and paragraph (3) through paragraph (10) and Article 38, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the provision of wholesale telecommunications services. In this case, the phrase "interconnection between the requested telecommunications carrier's telecommunications line facilities and the requesting telecommunications carrier's telecommunications facilities" in Article 35, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "provision of specified wholesale telecommunications services prescribed in Article 38-2, paragraph (2)"; the term "agreement" in paragraphs (1), (3), and (4) of that Article and Article 38, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "contract"; the phrase "interconnection falls under the items of Article 32" in Article 35, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "there are justifiable grounds prescribed in that paragraph"; the term "Article 155, paragraph (1)" in paragraph (1) and the proviso of paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 155, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 156, paragraph (2)"; the term "terms and conditions of interconnection" in paragraphs (3) and (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "terms and conditions for the provision of those services"; the phrase "installing telecommunications facilities to be interconnected to them" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "that intends to conclude a contract with the telecommunications carrier that provides wholesale telecommunications services"; the term "paragraph (2)" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 38, paragraph (1)"; the phrase "sharing telecommunications facilities or structures for telecommunications facilities installation (meaning buildings and other structures used by telecommunications carriers to install telecommunications facilities; the same applies hereinafter)" in Article 38, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced by "provision of wholesale telecommunications services other than specified wholesale telecommunications services prescribed in paragraph (2) of the following Article"; and the term "that sharing" and the term "Article 156, paragraph (1)" in Article 38, paragraph (1) are deemed to be replaced with "that provision" and "Article 156, paragraph (2)", respectively.

第三十九条の二総務大臣は、その保有する第一種指定電気通信設備及び第二種指定電気通信設備に関する次に掲げる情報を整理し、これをインターネットの利用その他の適切な方法により公表するものとする。

Article 39-2The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications is to organize the following information that the Minister possesses regarding Category I and Category II designated telecommunications facilities, and to make the relevant information public using the Internet or any other appropriate means:

第三十九条の三特定ドメイン名電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、正当な理由がなければ、その業務区域における特定ドメイン名電気通信役務の提供を拒んではならない。

Article 39-3(1)A telecommunications carrier that provides specified domain name telecommunications services must not refuse to do so in its service areas without just cause.

２総務大臣は、特定ドメイン名電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者が前項の規定に違反したときは、当該電気通信事業者に対し、利用者の利益又は公共の利益を確保するために必要な限度において、業務の方法の改善その他の措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。

(2)If a telecommunications carrier providing specified domain name telecommunications services has violated the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may order the telecommunications carrier to improve its methods of conducting operations or take other measures, to the extent necessary for ensuring the interests of users or the public interest.

３特定ドメイン名電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、電気通信役務に関する収支の状況その他その会計に関し総務省令で定める事項を公表しなければならない。

(3)A telecommunications carrier that provides specified domain name telecommunications services must make the status of income and expenditure for its telecommunications services and other accounting particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications public, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第四十条電気通信事業者は、外国政府又は外国人若しくは外国法人との間に、電気通信業務に関する協定又は契約であつて総務省令で定める重要な事項を内容とするものを締結し、変更し、又は廃止しようとするときは、総務大臣の認可を受けなければならない。

Article 40If a telecommunications carrier intends to conclude, amend or discontinue an agreement or contract with foreign governments, foreign nationals, or foreign corporations on telecommunications activities, which includes important particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, it must obtain authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.

第七十三条の二電気通信事業者又は媒介等業務受託者から委託を受けて第二十六条第一項各号に掲げる電気通信役務の提供に関する契約の締結の媒介等の業務を行おうとする者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、次に掲げる事項を記載した書類を添えて、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

Article 73-2(1)A person that intends to perform intermediation or other similar actions for concluding a contract related to the provision of telecommunications services listed in the items of Article 26, paragraph (1) upon being entrusted by a telecommunications carrier or by a person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect together with a document describing the following particulars, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications:

２前項の届出をした者（以下「届出媒介等業務受託者」という。）は、同項各号に掲げる事項に変更があつたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。ただし、総務省令で定める軽微な変更については、この限りでない。

(2)If there is a change to the particulars listed in any of the items of the preceding paragraph, a person that has concluded the notification referred to in that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that conducts notification") must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect without delay; provided, however, that this does not apply to minor changes specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

３届出媒介等業務受託者が前二項の規定による届出に係る第二十六条第一項各号に掲げる電気通信役務の提供に関する契約の締結の媒介等の業務（以下この項及び次項において「届出媒介等業務」という。）を行う事業の全部を譲渡し、又は届出媒介等業務受託者について合併、分割（届出媒介等業務を行う事業の全部を承継させるものに限る。）若しくは相続があつたときは、当該事業の全部を譲り受けた者又は合併後存続する法人若しくは合併により設立した法人、分割により当該事業の全部を承継した法人若しくは相続人（相続人が二人以上ある場合においてその協議により当該事業を承継すべき相続人を定めたときは、その者）は、届出媒介等業務受託者の地位を承継する。この場合において、届出媒介等業務受託者の地位を承継した者は、遅滞なく、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(3)If a person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that concluded notification has transferred all of its business of performing intermediation or other similar actions for concluding contracts related to the provision of telecommunications services listed in the items of Article 26, paragraph (1) for which the notification under the preceding two paragraphs has been made (hereinafter referred to as "intermediation or other similar actions subject to notification" in this paragraph and the following paragraph), or if a person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that concluded notification has merged or split (this split is limited to a split resulting in the succession to all of the business of performing intermediation or other similar actions subject to notification) or inheritance from the that person has occurred, the person that has acquired all of the relevant business through the transfer, the corporation surviving after the merger or newly established upon the merger, the corporation that has succeeded to all of the relevant business upon the split, or the heir (or if one particular heir has been selected from among two or more heirs as the successor to the relevant business by agreement among the heirs, the selected heir) may succeed to the status of the person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that conducted notification. In this case, the person that succeeded to the status of the person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that conducted notification must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect without delay.

４届出媒介等業務受託者は、届出媒介等業務を廃止したときは、遅滞なく、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(4)If a person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that conducts notification discontinues its intermediation or other similar actions subject to notification, it must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect without delay.

５届出媒介等業務受託者たる法人が合併以外の事由により解散したときは、その清算人（解散が破産手続開始の決定による場合にあつては、破産管財人）は、遅滞なく、その旨を総務大臣に届け出なければならない。

(5)If a corporation that is a person entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that conducts notification dissolves due to reasons other than a merger, the liquidator in charge (or in cases of dissolution due to an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings, the bankruptcy trustee) must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect without delay.

第七十三条の三第二十六条及び第二十七条の二の規定は届出媒介等業務受託者について、第二十七条の三第二項の規定は同条第一項の規定により指定された電気通信事業者が提供する移動電気通信役務の提供に関する契約の締結の媒介等の業務を行う届出媒介等業務受託者について、それぞれ準用する。この場合において、次の表の上欄に掲げる規定中同表の中欄に掲げる字句は、それぞれ同表の下欄に掲げる字句に読み替えるものとする。

Article 73-3The provisions set forth in Article 26 and Article 27-2 apply mutatis mutandis to persons entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that conduct notification; and the provisions set forth in Article 27-3, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to persons entrusted with intermediation or other similar actions that conduct notification if they perform intermediation or other similar actions for concluding contracts related to provision of mobile telecommunications services provided by telecommunications carriers designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article. In this case, the terms in the middle column of the following table which are used in the provisions in its left column are deemed to be replaced with the terms in its right column.

第七十三条の四総務大臣は、次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、当該各号に定める者に対し、利用者の利益を確保するために必要な限度において、業務の方法の改善その他の措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。

Article 73-4If either of the conditions set forth in the following items occur, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may order the person prescribed in those items to improve the methods of conducting its business activities or take other measures to the extent necessary for ensuring the interests of users:

第百六条総務大臣は、基礎的電気通信役務の提供の確保に寄与することを目的とする一般社団法人又は一般財団法人であつて、次条に規定する業務（以下「支援業務」という。）に関し次に掲げる基準に適合すると認められるものを、その申請により、全国に一を限つて、基礎的電気通信役務支援機関（以下「支援機関」という。）として指定することができる。

Article 106The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may designate a general incorporated association or general incorporated foundation which is established to contribute to ensuring the provision of universal telecommunications services and is found to conform to the criteria listed below with respect to the operations set forth in the following Article (hereinafter referred to as "support operations") as the only Universal Telecommunications Service Support Institution (hereinafter referred to as the "support institution") in Japan, upon its application:

第百七条支援機関は、次に掲げる業務を行うものとする。

Article 107The support institution is to conduct the following operations:

第百八条総務大臣は、支援機関の指定をしたときは、第一号基礎的電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者であつて、次に掲げる基準に適合すると認められるものを、その申請により、第一種適格電気通信事業者として指定することができる。

Article 108(1)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications has designated the support institution, the Minister may designate a telecommunications carrier that provides item (i) universal telecommunications services and is found to conform to the criteria listed below, as a Category I eligible telecommunications carrier, upon its application:

２前項の規定による指定は、総務省令で定める第一号基礎的電気通信役務の種別ごとに行う。

(2)The designation under the preceding paragraph is granted for each type of item (i) universal telecommunications services specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

３第一種適格電気通信事業者（第一種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者又は第二種指定電気通信設備を設置する電気通信事業者以外の電気通信事業者に限る。）は、第一項第二号に規定する接続約款を変更しようとするときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、その実施前に、総務大臣に届け出るとともに、これを公表しなければならない。

(3)If a Category I eligible telecommunications carrier (limited to a telecommunications carrier other than those installing Category I or Category II designated telecommunications facilities) intends to change the general conditions of contracts for interconnection set forth in paragraph (1), item (ii), it must notify the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of those changes and make them public pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications before their implementation.

４第十七条第一項の規定による電気通信事業者の地位の承継があつた場合において、当該電気通信事業者が第一種適格電気通信事業者であつたときは、当該電気通信事業者の地位を承継した電気通信事業者は、第一種適格電気通信事業者の地位を承継するものとする。

(4)In the case of succession to the status of a telecommunications carrier under Article 17, paragraph (1), if that telecommunications carrier was a Category I eligible telecommunications carrier, a telecommunications carrier that has succeeded to the status of that telecommunications carrier is to succeed to the status as a Category I eligible telecommunications carrier.

５総務大臣は、第一種適格電気通信事業者が次の各号のいずれかに該当するとき、又は第一種適格電気通信事業者から第一項の規定による指定の取消しの申請があつたときは、その指定を取り消すことができる。

(5)If a Category I eligible telecommunications carrier falls under any of the following items or has filed an application for revocation of the designation under paragraph (1), the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may revoke its designation:

第百九条支援機関は、年度ごとに、総務省令で定める方法により第百七条第一号の交付金（以下「第一種交付金」という。）の額を算定し、当該第一種交付金の額及び交付方法について総務大臣の認可を受けなければならない。

Article 109(1)The support institution must calculate the grants set forth in Article 107, item (i) (hereinafter referred to as "Category I grants") by the methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and must obtain authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications with regard to the amount of the Category I grants and methods of providing them for each fiscal year.

２第一種適格電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、第一種交付金の額の算定をするための資料として、当該算定の前年度における前条第一項の規定による指定に係る第一号基礎的電気通信役務の提供に要した原価及び当該指定に係る第一号基礎的電気通信役務の提供により生じた収益の額その他総務省令で定める事項を支援機関に届け出なければならない。

(2)A Category I eligible telecommunications carrier must notify the support institution of the cost spent in the previous fiscal year to provide the item (i) universal telecommunications services related to the designation under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the income generated by the provision of the item (i) universal telecommunications services related to the designation, and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, as the basis for calculating the Category I grants, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

３前項の原価は、能率的な経営の下における適正な原価を算定するものとして総務省令で定める方法により算定しなければならない。

(3)The cost set forth in the preceding paragraph must be calculated by the methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as those for calculating reasonable costs under efficient management.

４支援機関は、第一項の認可を受けたときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、第一種交付金の額を公表しなければならない。

(4)If the support institution has obtained authorization set forth in paragraph (1), it must make the amount of Category I grants public pursuant to the provisions of by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第百十条支援機関は、年度ごとに、第百七条第一号に掲げる業務（これに附帯する業務を含む。第百十二条第一項において同じ。）に要する費用の全部又は一部に充てるため、次に掲げる電気通信事業者であつて、その事業の規模が政令で定める基準を超えるもの（以下この条において「接続電気通信事業者等」という。）から、負担金を徴収することができる。ただし、接続電気通信事業者等の前年度における電気通信役務の提供により生じた収益の額（その者が、前年度又はその年度（第三項の規定による通知を受けるまでの間に限る。）において、他の接続電気通信事業者等について合併、分割（電気通信事業の全部を承継させるものに限る。）若しくは相続があつた場合における合併後存続する法人若しくは合併により設立された法人、分割により当該電気通信事業の全部を承継した法人若しくは相続人又は他の接続電気通信事業者等から電気通信事業の全部を譲り受けた者であるときは、合併により消滅した法人、分割をした法人若しくは被相続人又は当該電気通信事業を譲り渡した接続電気通信事業者等の前年度における電気通信役務の提供により生じた収益の額を含む。）として総務省令で定める方法により算定した額に対する当該負担金（以下「第一種負担金」という。）の額の割合は、政令で定める割合を超えてはならない。

Article 110(1)Each fiscal year, the support institution may collect dues from the telecommunications carriers that are listed below and whose scale of business exceeds the standards specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as "telecommunications carriers conducting interconnection or other similar actions" in this Article), in order to allocate them to all or part of the costs required for operations listed in Article 107, item (i) (including work incidental to the operations; the same applies in Article 112, paragraph (1)); provided, however, that those dues (hereinafter referred to as "Category I dues") must not come to account for a proportion exceeding the proportion specified by Cabinet Order of the amounts calculated by methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as the income generated by the provision of the telecommunications services in the previous fiscal year by a telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions (the income so generated includes the income generated by the provision of the telecommunications services in the previous fiscal year by a corporation disappearing in a merger, a corporation conducting a split (limited to a split resulting in the succession to all of telecommunications business), a decedent, or another telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions that transferred its telecommunications business in either of the following cases: if another telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions has merged or split, or inheritance from that carrier has occurred in the previous fiscal year or in the relevant fiscal year (limited to the period until the relevant telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions receives the notification under paragraph (3)), and the relevant telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions is a corporation surviving after the merger or newly established upon the merger, a corporation that has succeeded to all of the telecommunications business upon the split, or a heir; or if the relevant telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions has succeeded to all of the telecommunications business from another telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions in the previous fiscal year or in the relevant fiscal year (limited to the period until the relevant telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions receives the notification under paragraph (3))):

２支援機関は、年度ごとに、総務省令で定める方法により第一種負担金の額を算定し、第一種負担金の額及び徴収方法について総務大臣の認可を受けなければならない。

(2)The support institution must calculate the Category I dues by methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and must obtain authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications with regard to the amount of Category I dues and methods of their collection for each fiscal year.

３支援機関は、前項の認可を受けたときは、接続電気通信事業者等に対し、その認可を受けた事項を記載した書面を添付して、納付すべき第一種負担金の額、納付期限及び納付方法を通知しなければならない。

(3)If the support institution has obtained the authorization set forth in the preceding paragraph, it must send telecommunications carriers conducting interconnection or other similar actions a notification describing the amount of the Category I dues which they are to pay, the time limit for paying them, and methods of paying them, together with written documents describing the authorized particulars.

４接続電気通信事業者等は、前項の規定による通知に従い、支援機関に対し、第一種負担金を納付する義務を負う。

(4)A telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions has the obligation to pay Category I dues to the support institution in accordance with the notification under the preceding paragraph.

５第三項の規定による通知を受けた接続電気通信事業者等は、納付期限までにその第一種負担金を納付しないときは、第一種負担金の額に納付期限の翌日から当該第一種負担金を納付する日までの日数一日につき総務省令で定める率を乗じて計算した金額に相当する金額の延滞金を納付する義務を負う。

(5)If a telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions has received the notification under paragraph (3) but fails to pay the Category I dues to the support institution by the due date for the payment, it has the obligation to pay a delinquency charge equivalent to the Category I dues multiplied by the rate specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on a daily basis in the period from the date following the due date to the date of payment.

６支援機関は、接続電気通信事業者等が納付期限までにその第一種負担金を納付しないときは、督促状によつて、期限を指定して督促しなければならない。

(6)If a telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions fails to pay its Category I dues by the due date for the payment, the support institution must demand in writing that the carrier pay the dues by the due date newly designated.

７支援機関は、前項の規定による督促を受けた接続電気通信事業者等がその指定の期限までにその督促に係る第一種負担金及び第五項の規定による延滞金を納付しないときは、総務大臣にその旨を申し立てることができる。

(7)If a telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions that has received a written demand under the preceding paragraph fails to pay the Category I dues related to the demand and the delinquency charge under paragraph (5) by the designated time limit, the support institution may file a petition to that effect with the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.

８総務大臣は、前項の規定による申立てがあつたときは、当該接続電気通信事業者等に対し、支援機関に第一種負担金及び第五項の規定による延滞金を納付すべきことを命ずることができる。

(8)If a petition is filed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may order the telecommunications carrier conducting interconnection or other similar actions to pay the support institution the Category I dues and the delinquency charge under paragraph (5).

第百十条の二総務大臣は、支援機関の指定をしたときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、全国を総務省令で定める地域の単位に分けた区域（以下この項及び次項において「単位区域」という。）のうち次の各号のいずれにも該当するもの（同項各号のいずれにも該当するものを除く。）を第二号基礎的電気通信役務一般支援区域（以下「一般支援区域」という。）として指定することができる。

Article 110-2(1)When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications has designated a support institution, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Minister may designate a district that falls under all of the following items (excluding those falling under all of the items of the following paragraph) among the areas representing units of districts into which the entire nation is divided pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (hereinafter in this paragraph and the following paragraph referred to as "unit districts"), as an item (ii) universal telecommunications service general support district (hereinafter referred to as a "general support district"):

２総務大臣は、支援機関の指定をしたときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、単位区域のうち次の各号のいずれにも該当するものを第二号基礎的電気通信役務特別支援区域（以下「特別支援区域」という。）として指定することができる。

(2)When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications designates a supporting institution, the Minister may designate a unit district that falls under all of the following items as an item (ii) universal telecommunications service special support district (hereinafter referred to as a "special support district"), pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications:

３総務大臣は、一般支援区域が第一項各号のいずれかに該当しなくなつたとき、又は特別支援区域が前項各号のいずれかに該当しなくなつたときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、その指定を解除するものとする。

(3)When a general support district ceases to fall under any of the items of paragraph (1) or a special support district ceases to fall under any of the items of the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications is to cancel its designation pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

４総務大臣は、一般支援区域若しくは特別支援区域の指定をしたとき、又は当該指定を解除したときは、遅滞なく、その旨を支援機関に通知するとともに、これを公表するものとする。

(4)When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications has designated a general support district or a special support district, or has cancelled that designation, the Minister is to notify the support institution to that effect and make it public without delay.

第百十条の三総務大臣は、支援機関及び支援区域（一般支援区域及び特別支援区域をいう。以下この条において同じ。）の指定をしたときは、第二号基礎的電気通信役務を提供する電気通信事業者であつて、次に掲げる基準に適合すると認められるものを、その申請により、第二種適格電気通信事業者として指定することができる。

Article 110-3(1)When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications has designated a support institution and a support district (refers to the general support district and the special support district; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), the Minister may designate a telecommunications carrier that provides item (ii) universal telecommunications services and is recognized as conforming to the following standards as a Category II eligible telecommunications carrier upon application by that telecommunications carrier:

２前項の規定により総務大臣が第二種適格電気通信事業者を指定するときは、併せて、その申請に係る第二号基礎的電気通信役務に係る業務区域の範囲に含まれる支援区域を、当該支援区域ごとに、当該第二種適格電気通信事業者に係る支援区域（以下この条及び次条第三項において「担当支援区域」という。）として指定しなければならない。当該業務区域の範囲に新たな支援区域が含まれることとなつたときも、同様とする。

(2)When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications designates a Category II eligible telecommunications carrier pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister must also designate the support district included in the scope of the service area for the item (ii) universal telecommunications services subject to the application as the support district for that Category II eligible telecommunications carrier (hereinafter in this Article and paragraph (3) of the following Article referred to as the "coverage support district"), by each such support district. The same applies when a new support district is included in the scope of that service area.

３総務大臣は、次の各号に掲げる場合には、当該各号に定める担当支援区域の指定を解除するものとする。

(3)In the cases listed in the following items, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications is to cancel the designation of the coverage support district as specified in those items:

４総務大臣は、第一項の規定による第二種適格電気通信事業者の指定及び第二項前段の規定による当該第二種適格電気通信事業者に係る担当支援区域の指定をしたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を支援機関及び当該第二種適格電気通信事業者に通知するとともに、これを公表するものとする。同項後段の規定による担当支援区域の指定、前項の規定による担当支援区域の指定の解除又は第六項の規定による第二種適格電気通信事業者の指定の取消しをしたときも、同様とする。

(4)When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications designates a Category II eligible telecommunications carrier under the provisions of paragraph (1) and the coverage support district of that Category II eligible telecommunications carrier under the provisions of the first sentence of paragraph (2), the Minister is to notify the support institution and that Category II eligible telecommunications carrier to that effect and make it public without delay. The same applies to the designation of a coverage support district pursuant to the provisions of the second sentence of paragraph (2), the cancellation of the designation of a coverage support district under the preceding paragraph, or the revoking of the designation of a Category II eligible telecommunications carrier under paragraph (6).

５第十七条第一項の規定による電気通信事業者の地位の承継があつた場合において、当該電気通信事業者が第二種適格電気通信事業者であつたときは、当該電気通信事業者の地位を承継した電気通信事業者は、第二種適格電気通信事業者の地位を承継するものとする。

(5)In the case of succession to the status of a telecommunications carrier under Article 17, paragraph (1), if that telecommunications carrier was a Category II eligible telecommunications carrier, a telecommunications carrier that has succeeded to the status of that telecommunications carrier is to succeed to the status of a Category II eligible telecommunications carrier.

６総務大臣は、第二種適格電気通信事業者が次の各号のいずれかに該当するとき、又は第二種適格電気通信事業者から第一項の規定による指定の取消しの申請があつたときは、その指定を取り消すことができる。

(6)When a Category II eligible telecommunications carrier falls under any of the following items or when an application for revoking the designation under paragraph (1) has been filed by a Category II eligible telecommunications carrier, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications may revoke the designation:

第百十条の四支援機関は、年度ごとに、総務省令で定める方法により第百七条第二号の交付金（以下「第二種交付金」という。）の額を算定し、当該第二種交付金の額及び交付方法について総務大臣の認可を受けなければならない。

Article 110-4(1)The support institution must calculate the amount of the grants set forth in Article 107, item (ii) (hereinafter referred to as "Category II grants") by the methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and must obtain authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications concerning the amount of the Category II grants and methods of providing them for each fiscal year.

２前項の認可の申請は、一般支援区域又は特別支援区域の区分ごとに第二種交付金の額の内訳を明らかにした書類を添えてしなければならない。

(2)An application for the authorization set forth in the preceding paragraph must be filed together with a document clarifying the breakdown of the amount of the Category II grants for each category of general support district or special support district.

３第二種適格電気通信事業者は、総務省令で定めるところにより、第二種交付金の額の算定をするための資料として、その担当支援区域ごとに、当該算定の前年度における第二号基礎的電気通信役務の提供に要した原価及び第二号基礎的電気通信役務の提供により生じた収益の額その他総務省令で定める事項を支援機関に届け出なければならない。

(3)Category II eligible telecommunications carriers must notify the support institution of the cost spent to provide the item (ii) universal telecommunications services in a fiscal year previous to the fiscal year for which they calculate the amount of the Category II grants, the income generated by the provision of the item (ii) universal telecommunications services, and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, as the basis for calculating the amount of the Category II grants, by each coverage support district pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

４前項の原価は、能率的な経営の下における適正な原価を算定するものとして総務省令で定める方法により算定し、同項の収益は、標準的な料金を設定するとしたならば通常生ずる収益を算定するものとして総務省令で定める方法により算定しなければならない。

(4)The cost set forth in the preceding paragraph must be calculated by the methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as those for calculating reasonable costs under efficient management, and the income referred to in that paragraph must be calculated by the methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as those that calculate income that would normally arise if standardized rates were set.

５支援機関は、第一項の認可を受けたときは、総務省令で定めるところにより、第二種交付金の額を公表しなければならない。

(5)If the support institution has obtained authorization set forth in paragraph (1), it must make the amount of Category II grants public pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

第百十条の五支援機関は、年度ごとに、第百七条第二号に掲げる業務（これに附帯する業務を含む。第百十二条第一項において同じ。）に要する費用の全部又は一部に充てるため、高速度データ伝送電気通信役務（総務省令で定めるものを除く。）を提供する電気通信事業者であつて、その事業の規模が政令で定める基準を超えるもの（以下この項において「高速度データ伝送役務提供事業者」という。）から、負担金を徴収することができる。ただし、高速度データ伝送役務提供事業者の前年度における電気通信役務の提供により生じた収益の額（その者が、前年度又はその年度（次項において準用する第百十条第三項の規定による通知を受けるまでの間に限る。）において、他の高速度データ伝送役務提供事業者について合併、分割（電気通信事業の全部を承継させるものに限る。）若しくは相続があつた場合における合併後存続する法人若しくは合併により設立された法人、分割により当該電気通信事業の全部を承継した法人若しくは相続人又は他の高速度データ伝送役務提供事業者から電気通信事業の全部を譲り受けた者であるときは、合併により消滅した法人、分割をした法人若しくは被相続人又は当該電気通信事業を譲り渡した高速度データ伝送役務提供事業者の前年度における電気通信役務の提供により生じた収益の額を含む。）として総務省令で定める方法により算定した額に対する当該負担金（以下「第二種負担金」という。）の額の割合は、政令で定める割合を超えてはならない。

Article 110-5(1)Each fiscal year, the support institution may collect dues from telecommunications carriers that provide high-speed data transmission telecommunications services (excluding those specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) and whose scale of business exceeds the standards specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as "high-speed data transmission service provider" in this paragraph), in order to allocate them to all or part of the costs required for operations listed in Article 107, item (ii) (including work incidental to the operations; the same applies in Article 112, paragraph (1)); provided, however, that those dues (hereinafter referred to as "Category II dues") must not come to account for a proportion exceeding the proportion specified by Cabinet Order of the amounts calculated by methods specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as the income generated by the provision of the telecommunications services in the previous fiscal year by a high-speed data transmission service provider (the income so generated includes the income generated by the provision of the telecommunications services in the previous fiscal year by a corporation disappearing in a merger, a corporation conducting a split (limited to a split resulting in the succession to all of telecommunications business), a decedent, or another high-speed data transmission service provider transferring its telecommunications business in either of the following cases: if another high-speed data transmission service provider has merged or split, or inheritance from that provider has occurred in the previous fiscal year or in the relevant fiscal year (limited to the period until the high-speed data transmission service provider in question receives the notification pursuant to the provisions of Article 110, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following paragraph), and the high-speed data transmission service provider in question is a corporation surviving after the merger or newly established upon the merger, a corporation that has succeeded to all of the telecommunications business upon the split, or a heir; or if the high-speed data transmission service provider in question has succeeded to all of the telecommunications business from another high-speed data transmission service provider in the previous fiscal year or in the relevant fiscal year (limited to the period until the high-speed data transmission service provider in question receives the notification pursuant to the provisions of Article 110, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following paragraph)).

２第百十条第二項から第八項までの規定は、第二種負担金について準用する。この場合において、同条第三項中「接続電気通信事業者等」とあるのは「高速度データ伝送役務提供事業者（第百十条の五第一項に規定する高速度データ伝送役務提供事業者をいう。以下この条において同じ。）」と、同条第四項から第八項までの規定中「接続電気通信事業者等」とあるのは「高速度データ伝送役務提供事業者」と読み替えるものとする。

(2)The provisions of Article 110, paragraphs (2) through (8) apply mutatis mutandis to Category 2 dues. In this case, the term "telecommunications carriers conducting interconnection or other similar actions" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "high-speed data transmission service provider (meaning the high-speed data transmission service provider prescribed in Article 110-5, paragraph (1); hereinafter the same applies in this Article). The term "telecommunications carriers conducting interconnection or other similar actions" in paragraphs (4) through (8) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "high-speed data transmission service provider".

第百十一条支援機関は、支援業務を行うため必要があるときは、電気通信事業者に対し、資料の提出を求めることができる。

Article 111The support institution may request that telecommunications carriers submit data, if that data is necessary for conducting support operations.

第百十二条支援機関は、第百七条第一号に掲げる業務に係る経理と同条第二号に掲げる業務に係る経理とを区分して整理しなければならない。

Article 112(1)The support institution must separate accounts for the operations listed in Article 107, item (i) from accounts for the operations listed in item (ii) of that Article.

２支援機関は、支援業務以外の業務を行つている場合には、当該業務に係る経理と支援業務に係る経理とを区分して整理しなければならない。

(2)If the support institution conducts the operations other than support operations, it must separate accounts for those operations from accounts for support operations.

第百十三条支援機関には、支援業務諮問委員会を置かなければならない。

Article 113(1)The support institution must establish a consultation commission for support operations.

２支援業務諮問委員会は、支援機関の代表者の諮問に応じ、第一種交付金及び第二種交付金の額及び交付方法、第一種負担金及び第二種負担金の額及び徴収方法その他支援業務の実施に関する重要事項を調査審議し、及びこれらに関し必要と認める意見を支援機関の代表者に述べることができる。

(2)Upon being consulted by the representative of the support institution, the consultation commission for support operations may conduct the study and deliberation on the amount of Category I and II grants and methods of providing them, the amount of Category I and II dues and methods of collecting them, and other important particulars concerning the conduct of the support operations, and provide the representative of the support institution with the opinions that it finds necessary for those matters.

３支援業務諮問委員会の委員は、電気通信事業者及び学識経験を有する者のうちから、総務大臣の認可を受けて、支援機関の代表者が任命する。

(3)The representative of the support institution appoints members of the consultation commission for support operations from among telecommunications carriers and persons with the relevant expertise, with authorization from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.

第百十四条第百十六条第一項において準用する第八十四条第一項又は第二項の規定により支援機関の指定を取り消した場合において、総務大臣がその取消し後に新たに支援機関を指定したときは、取消しに係る支援機関の支援業務に係る財産は、新たに指定を受けた支援機関に帰属する。

Article 114(1)If the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications has revoked the designation of the support institution pursuant to the provisions of Article 84, paragraph (1) or (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 116, paragraph (1), and newly designates a support institution after the revocation, the assets related to the support operations of the support institution subject to the revocation belong to the newly designated support institution.

２前項に定めるもののほか、第百十六条第一項において準用する第八十四条第一項又は第二項の規定により支援機関の指定を取り消した場合における支援業務に係る財産の管理その他所要の経過措置（罰則に関する経過措置を含む。）は、合理的に必要と判断される範囲内において、政令で定める。

(2)Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, the management of the assets related to the support operations and other necessary transitional measures (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) in cases in which the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications revokes the designation of a support institution pursuant to the provisions of Article 84, paragraph (1) or (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 106, paragraph (1), are specified by Cabinet Order within a scope considered reasonably necessary .

第百十五条総務大臣は、支援機関に対し、支援業務の実施に関し必要な情報及び資料の提供又は指導及び助言を行うものとする。

Article 115The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications is to provide information and data, or guidance and advice necessary for conducting the support operations to the support institution.

第百十六条第七十五条第二項第二号から第四号まで、第七十七条第一項及び第三項、第七十八条から第八十四条まで並びに第九十条の規定は、支援機関について準用する。

Article 116(1)The provisions of Article 75, paragraph (2), items (ii) through (iv), Article 77, paragraphs (1) and (3), Articles 78 through 84, and Article 90 apply mutatis mutandis to the support institution.

２前項の場合において、次の表の上欄に掲げる規定中同表の中欄に掲げる字句は、それぞれ同表の下欄に掲げる字句に読み替えるものとする。

(2)In the cases set forth in the preceding paragraph, the terms in the middle column of the following table which are used in the provisions in its left column are deemed to be replaced with the terms in its right column.

第百十六条の二総務大臣は、電気通信事業者が設立した一般社団法人であつて、次に掲げる要件に該当すると認められるものを、その申請により、次項に規定する業務（以下この節において「送信型対電気通信設備サイバー攻撃対処業務」という。）を行う者として認定することができる。

Article 116-2(1)The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may certify a general incorporated association that has been established by a telecommunications carrier and recognized as satisfying the requirements below as a person performing operations specified in the following paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "operations against cyber attacks on telecommunications facilities" in this Section), upon its application:

２前項の規定による認定を受けた一般社団法人（以下「認定送信型対電気通信設備サイバー攻撃対処協会」という。）は、次に掲げる業務を行うものとする。

(2)The general incorporated association approved under the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "certified association against cyber attacks on telecommunications facilities") is to conduct the operations listed below:

３第一項の規定による認定を受けようとする者は、次に掲げる事項を記載した申請書を総務大臣に提出しなければならない。

(3)A person that intends to receive approval under paragraph (1) must submit an application describing the following particulars to the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications:

４前項の申請書には、定款その他の総務省令で定める書類を添付しなければならない。

(4)Articles of incorporation and other documents specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications must be attached to the application in the preceding paragraph.