① In cases where the secretary general becomes suspicious of violations of the provisions of
the Fair Trade Act, the Labeling and advertising Act, the Subcontract Act, the Regulation of
Standardized Contracts Act, the Door-to-Door Sales Act, Act on Consumer Protection in
Electronic Commerce, etc. or the Franchise Act pursuant to Article 49 (Identification and
Reporting of Violations) of the Fair Trade Act, Paragraph (2) of Article 16 (Application
mutatis mutandis of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act) and Paragraph (2) of
Article 8 (Temporary Suspension Order) of the Labeling and advertising Act, Article 22
(Reporting of Violations, etc.) of the Subcontract Act, Article 19 (Request for Examination
of Standardized Contracts, etc.) of the Standardized Contracts Act, Paragraphs 1 and 4 of Article 37 (Investigation of Violations, etc.) and Article 24 (Request for Stoppage of
Infringement of Consumers, etc.) of the Door-to-Door Sales Act, or Paragraphs 1 and 4 of
Article 26 (Investigation of Violations, etc.) of Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic
Commerce, etc., and Paragraph (1) of Article 37 (Application mutatis mutandis of the
Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act), or Article 47 (Application mutatis mutandis of
the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act) of the Installment Transaction Act; or, where
the secretary general receives a report (including a report received on an internet, but
excluding a report received from consultations or fair trade monitoring members or on a fair
trade civil information service network system), a temporary suspension request, a request
for examination, or a request for stoppage of infringement of such violations, the secretary
general may have the cases pre-investigated or pre-examined by the examining official
(hereinafter referred to as the "Examiner") prior to the commencement of the examining
procedures as stipulated in Article 11 (Commencement of the Examining Procedures).