(Service of a Recommendation or an Order) 

Article 13 (1) A recommendation or an order pursuant to the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (4) or 9 of the Act is given by service of a document, in which the content of the recommendation or order is described, to a domicile or residence, or business office of a person who is to receive the service, by mail or by letter prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on the Service of Letters by Private Business Operators (Act No. 99 of 2002) by a general letter services operator prescribed in paragraph (6) of the same Article or a specified letter service operator prescribed in paragraph (9) of the same Article (hereinafter referred to as the "letter" in this Article), or by delivery. 

(2) Where a document prescribed in the preceding paragraph has been sent by ordinary mail or letter, the postal item or the letter item prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on the Service of Letters by Private Business Operators is presumed to have been serviced at the time when it is to arrive by ordinary. 

(3) Where the Minister of Finance sends a document prescribed in paragraph (1) by ordinary mail or letter, the Minister must prepare a record sufficient to confirm the name of the person who is to receive the service of the document (for a corporation, its name), address, and the date of sending the document. 

(4) Service by delivery prescribed in paragraph (1) is conducted by the official of the administrative organ (including the employees of the Bank of Japan who engage, pursuant to Article 69, paragraph (1) of the Act, in the affairs listed in Article 26, item (iii) or (v)) through delivery of a document prescribed in paragraph (1) to a person who is to receive the service of the document in the place to which the document is to be serviced; provided, however, when a person who is to receive the service has no objection, the document may be delivered to other places. 

(5) In the cases listed in the following items, service by delivery set forth in paragraph (1) may be conducted through acts prescribed respectively in those items, in addition to delivery pursuant to the preceding paragraph: 

(i) in the case of being unable to meet a person who is to receive the service of a document prescribed in paragraph (1) in the place to which the service is to be sent: The document is delivered to the person's employee or other worker, or a person living together with the person who has the capacity to receive the document (referred to as the "employees, etc." in the following item); 

(ii) where a person who is to receive the service of a document prescribed in paragraph (1) or other employees, etc. is not in the place to which the service is to be sent or where these persons refuse to receive the document without justifiable grounds: The document is placed in the place to which the service is to be sent. 

(6) A notice pursuant to the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (6) of the Act 

