Article 1.　An applicant for a subscribed telephone (excluding those applied for subscription by designating a term of subscription not exceeding thirty days) shall pay an amount to be fixed by Cabinet Order not exceeding 30,000 yen for each kind of subscribed telephones and telephone offices, by the date to be fixed by the Minister of Telecommunications, in case the Minister of Telecommunications has despatched to him a notification of the acceptance of application during the period from the date of enforcement of this Law to March 31, 1956.

2　In case an applicant provided for in the preceding paragraph fails to make the payment under the provision of the same paragraph, the acceptance of application shall lose its validity.

Article 2.　In case the subscription contract for a subscribed telephone for which the payment provided for in paragraph 1 of the preceding Article has been made has lost its validity within five years from the day of installation of the subscribed telephone, the Minister of Telecommunications shall pay to the person who has made the payment provided for in the same paragraph or to his successor the amount paid in accordance with the provision of the same paragraph.

Article 3.　The subscriber of a subscribed telephone which is, at the time of enforcement of this Law, perished on account of war damage, shall pay an amount fixed by the Cabinet order referred to in Article 1 paragraph 1, by the date to be fixed by the Minister of Telecommunications, in case the Minister of Telecommunications has completed the rehabilitation work of the subscribed telephone during the period from the date of enforcement of this Law to March 31, 1956.

2　In case the subscriber mentioned in the preceding paragraph fails to make the payment under the provision of the same paragraph, the Minister of Telecommunications may cancel the contract for the subscribed telephone mentioned in the same paragraph.

Article 4.　In case the subscription contract for a subscribed telephone referred to in paragraph 1 of the preceding Article for which the payment provided for in the same paragraph has been made has lost its validity, the Minister of Telecommunications shall pay to the subscriber at the time when the subscription contract has lost its validity, the amount said in accordance with the provision of the same paragraph.

Article 5.　A subscriber who has requested the installation of a switchboard or of a telephone apparatus as extension equipment of a subscribed telephone (excluding those which are requested by designating a term of use of telephone not exceeding thirty days;hereinafter referred to simply as "the extension equipment" ) shall pay an amount to be fixed by Cabinet Order within the amount of cost usually required for the installation of extension equipment for each kind of facilities, by the date to be fixed by the Minister of Telecommunications, in case the Minister of Telecommunications has despatched to him a notification of the acceptance of his request during the period from the date of enforcement of this Law to March 31, 1956. However, the same shall not apply to the extension equipment owned by the subscriber.

2　In case the subscriber mentioned in the preceding paragraph fails to make the payment provided for in the same paragraph, the Minister of Telecommunications shall not accept the request mentioned in the same paragraph.

Article 6.　The Minister of Telecommunications shall, in case any extension equipment for which there has been made the payment under the provision of paragraph 1 of the preceding Article has come to fall under one of the following items within ten years from the day of its installation, pay the amount obtained by deducting the amount equivalent to one-tenth of the amount paid in accordance with the provision of the same paragraph per annum for the period (if there is any fraction less than six months in the period, it shall be cut off, while if there is any fraction not less than six months and less than one year, it shall be reckoned as one year;hereinafter the same.) from the day of its installation through the day on which such extension equipment has come to fall under one of the following items from the amount paid in accordance with the provision of the same paragraph, to the subscriber or his successor at the time such extension equipment has come to fall under one of the following items:

2　In the case of the preceding paragraph, if any extension equipment that has come to fall under one of the items of the same paragraph is a part of the extension equipment for which there has been made the payment under the provision of paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, the amount to be paid in accordance with the provision of the preceding paragraph shall be the part of the amount paid in accordance the provision of paragraph 1 of the preceding Article as is relating to the part of the extension equipment, minus the amount equivalent to one-tenth of the amount per annum for the period from the day of its installation through the day on which it has come to fall under one of the items of the preceding paragraph.

3　As to the application of the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, those sets of extension equipment which have been installed on the same subscriber's line and which are installed on the same day shall be deemed to be one set of extension equipment.

4　The Minister of Telecommunications shall, in the case of paragraph 1, unless the common battery system, multiple, or automatic switchboard in the extension equipment can be used continuously at the place of its installation, deduct the amount of expenses needed for its removal from the amount to be paid in accordance with the same paragraph.

Article 7.　The provisions of this Law shall not apply to applications for subscriptions, subscribed telephones, or extension equipment of the State organs.