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Act on Specified Commercial Transactions

特定商取引に関する法律(とくていしょうとりひきにかんするほうりつ)

Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 128 terms: 75 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 53 in our translation, marked as such.

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goods

商品(しょうひん)

In the chapters on multilevel marketing (連鎖販売取引) and on business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売取引), the articles (物品) sold in the business — in the multilevel marketing chapter including rights to use facilities or to receive services.

Article 33, paragraph (1)
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goods

商品(しょうひん)

In the chapters on multilevel marketing (連鎖販売取引) and on business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売取引), the articles (物品) sold in the business — in the multilevel marketing chapter including rights to use facilities or to receive services.

Article 51, paragraph (1)
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service provider

役務提供事業者(えきむていきょうじぎょうしゃ)

A person engaged in the business of providing services (役務).

Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)
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service contract

役務提供契約(えきむていきょうけいやく)

A contract to provide services (役務) in exchange for payment.

Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)
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counterparty

相手方(あいてかた)

In Articles 58 to 58-3, the other party to a business opportunity sales contract (業務提供誘引販売契約), limited to an individual who does the work offered or arranged under it without a place of business or similar facility (事業所等).

Article 58, paragraph (1)
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mail order sale

通信販売(つうしんはんばい)

A sale of goods (商品) or specified rights (特定権利), or provision of services, by a seller or service provider on receiving the offer by post or another method an order of the competent ministry (主務省令) specifies (郵便等), other than a telemarketing sale (電話勧誘販売).

販売業者又は役務提供事業者が郵便その他の主務省令で定める方法(以下「郵便等」という。)により売買契約又は役務提供契約の申込みを受けて行う商品若しくは特定権利の販売又は役務の提供であつて電話勧誘販売に該当しないもの

Article 2, paragraph (2)
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specified commercial transactions

特定商取引(とくていしょうとりひき)

The transactions this Act regulates: those connected with door-to-door sales (訪問販売), mail order sales (通信販売) and telemarketing sales (電話勧誘販売), multilevel marketing transactions (連鎖販売取引), transactions connected with the provision of specified continuous services (特定継続的役務提供), business opportunity sales transactions (業務提供誘引販売取引), and transactions connected with door-to-door purchases (訪問購入).

訪問販売、通信販売及び電話勧誘販売に係る取引、連鎖販売取引、特定継続的役務提供に係る取引、業務提供誘引販売取引並びに訪問購入に係る取引

Article 1, paragraph (1)
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specified continuous services

特定継続的役務(とくていけいぞくてきえきむ)

Services a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies that are provided continuously for payment in everyday transactions, where customers are drawn in with the promise of a personal goal — improving their appearance, knowledge or skills, or another goal concerning their body, mind or circumstances — and whether that goal will be achieved is by nature uncertain.

国民の日常生活に係る取引において有償で継続的に提供される役務であつて、次の各号のいずれにも該当するものとして、政令で定めるもの

Article 41, paragraph (2)
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multilevel marketing transactions

連鎖販売取引(れんさはんばいとりひき)

A transaction (including a change in its terms) in which a person carrying on a multilevel marketing undertaking (連鎖販売業) sells goods or provides services, or arranges either, to someone drawn in to resell or sell the goods or to provide the same kind of services by the prospect of a specified profit (特定利益), and which involves a specified burden (特定負担) for that person.

Article 33, paragraph (1)
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multilevel marketing undertaking

連鎖販売業(れんさはんばいぎょう)

A business of selling articles or providing services for payment (or arranging either) that draws people in to resell the goods, sell them on consignment or arrange their sale, or to provide or arrange the same kind of services, with the prospect of a specified profit (特定利益), and makes transactions with them that involve a specified burden (特定負担) — buying the goods, paying for the services or providing a transaction fee (取引料).

物品(施設を利用し又は役務の提供を受ける権利を含む。以下この章及び第五章において同じ。)の販売(そのあつせんを含む。)又は有償で行う役務の提供(そのあつせんを含む。)の事業であつて、販売の目的物たる物品(以下この章及び第五十八条の二十一第一項第一号イにおいて「商品」という。)の再販売(販売の相手方が商品を買い受けて販売すること

Article 33, paragraph (1)
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multilevel marketing transactions

連鎖販売取引(れんさはんばいとりひき)

A transaction (including a change in its terms) in which a person carrying on a multilevel marketing undertaking (連鎖販売業) sells goods or provides services, or arranges either, to someone drawn in to resell or sell the goods or to provide the same kind of services by the prospect of a specified profit (特定利益), and which involves a specified burden (特定負担) for that person.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (9)
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specified right

特定権利(とくていけんり)

In Chapter 2 (door-to-door, mail order and telemarketing sales) and a few later provisions, any of these rights: a right to use facilities or receive services that is sold in everyday transactions and specified by Cabinet Order (政令); a corporate bond or other monetary claim; or a share in a stock company, an equity interest in a limited liability, general partnership or limited partnership company, another membership right in an incorporated association, or a similar right in a foreign corporation.

次に掲げる権利

Article 2, paragraph (4)
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door-to-door sale

訪問販売(ほうもんはんばい)

A sale of goods (商品) or specified rights (特定権利), or provision of services, by a seller or service provider under a contract offered or made away from its business office or similar place (営業所等), or made at such a place with a specified customer (特定顧客) who was stopped elsewhere and brought there or drawn in by another method a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

次に掲げるもの

Article 2, paragraph (1)
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email advertising

電子メール広告(でんしめーるこうこく)

An advertisement made by sending its text or other information by an electronic or magnetic means (電磁的方法) so that it appears on the screen of the recipient's computer.

当該広告に係る通信文その他の情報を電磁的方法により送信し、これを当該広告の相手方の使用に係る電子計算機の映像面に表示されるようにする方法により行う広告

Article 12-3, paragraph (1)
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provision of specified continuous services

特定継続的役務提供(とくていけいぞくてきえきむていきょう)

Either providing specified continuous services (特定継続的役務) under a contract to provide them for longer than a period, and for more than an amount, that a Cabinet Order (政令) sets for each service (a specified continuous service contract, 特定継続的役務提供契約), or selling the right to receive such services for longer than that period for more than that amount (under a sales contract for specified rights, 特定権利販売契約).

次に掲げるもの

Article 41, paragraph (1)
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purchaser

購入者(こうにゅうしゃ)

In Article 15-3, the person who made an offer to buy, or who bought, goods or specified rights (特定権利) from a seller that advertised the terms of their sale by mail order (通信販売).

Article 15-3, paragraph (1)
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business opportunity sales

業務提供誘引販売業(ぎょうむていきょうゆういんはんばいぎょう)

A business of selling articles or providing services for payment (or arranging either) that draws people in with the prospect of profit from work using those goods or services, offered or arranged by the business itself, and makes transactions with them that involve a specified burden (特定負担) — buying the goods, paying for the services or providing a transaction fee (取引料).

物品の販売(そのあつせんを含む。)又は有償で行う役務の提供(そのあつせんを含む。)の事業であつて、その販売の目的物たる物品(以下この章及び第五十八条の二十三第一項第一号イにおいて「商品」という。)又はその提供される役務を利用する業務(その商品の販売若しくはそのあつせん又はその役務の提供若しくはそのあつせんを行う者が自ら提供を行い、又はあつせんを行うものに限る。)に従事することにより得られる利益(以下この章及び第五十八条の二十三第一項第三号において「業務提供利益」という。)を収受し得ることをもつて相手方を誘引し、その者と特定負担(その商品の購入若しくはその役務の対価の支払又は取引料の提供

Article 51, paragraph (1)
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business opportunity sales

業務提供誘引販売業(ぎょうむていきょうゆういんはんばいぎょう)

A business of selling articles or providing services for payment (or arranging either) that draws people in with the prospect of profit from work using those goods or services, offered or arranged by the business itself, and makes transactions with them that involve a specified burden (特定負担) — buying the goods, paying for the services or providing a transaction fee (取引料).

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (14)
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business opportunity sales transactions

業務提供誘引販売取引(ぎょうむていきょうゆういんはんばいとりひき)

A transaction (including a change in its terms) in which a person carrying on business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売業) sells goods or provides services, or arranges either, to someone drawn in by the prospect of business opportunity profit (業務提供利益), and which involves a specified burden (特定負担) for that person.

Article 51, paragraph (1)
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Act on Specified Commercial Transactions

特定商取引法(とくていしょうとりひきほう)

This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 120 of 2000.

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business opportunity sales transactions

業務提供誘引販売取引(ぎょうむていきょうゆういんはんばいとりひき)

A transaction (including a change in its terms) in which a person carrying on business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売業) sells goods or provides services, or arranges either, to someone drawn in by the prospect of business opportunity profit (業務提供利益), and which involves a specified burden (特定負担) for that person.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (13)
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the new Act

新法(しんぽう)

This Act as amended by Act No. 43 of 1988.

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the new Act

新法(しんぽう)

This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 44 of 1996.

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the new Act

新法(しんぽう)

This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 60 of 2016.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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orchestrator

統括者(とうかつしゃ)

The person who in substance runs a set of related multilevel marketing undertakings (連鎖販売業) — for example by putting its own trademark on the goods, having its trade name or another mark used for the services, setting the terms and conditions of the transactions, or continuously guiding the operations of those who carry on the undertakings.

連鎖販売業に係る商品に自己の商標を付し、若しくは連鎖販売業に係る役務の提供について自己の商号その他特定の表示を使用させ、連鎖販売取引に関する約款を定め、又は連鎖販売業を行う者の経営に関し継続的に指導を行う等一連の連鎖販売業を実質的に統括する者

Article 33, paragraph (2)
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orchestrator

統括者(とうかつしゃ)

The person who in substance runs a set of related multilevel marketing undertakings (連鎖販売業) — for example by putting its own trademark on the goods, having its trade name or another mark used for the services, setting the terms and conditions of the transactions, or continuously guiding the operations of those who carry on the undertakings.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (10)
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buyer

購入業者(こうにゅうぎょうしゃ)

A person who buys articles (物品) as a business — the buyer in a door-to-door purchase (訪問購入).

Article 58-4, paragraph (1)
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buyer

購入業者(こうにゅうぎょうしゃ)

A person who buys articles (物品) as a business — the buyer in a door-to-door purchase (訪問購入).

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (15)
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solicitor

勧誘者(かんゆうしゃ)

A person whom the orchestrator (統括者) of a set of related multilevel marketing undertakings (連鎖販売業) has solicit others to enter into multilevel marketing transactions (連鎖販売取引) connected with them.

統括者がその統括する一連の連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引について勧誘を行わせる者

Article 33-2, paragraph (1)
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the effective date

施行日(しこうび)

The date Act No. 60 of 2016, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.

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the effective date

施行日(しこうび)

The date Act No. 72 of 2021, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.

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solicitor

勧誘者(かんゆうしゃ)

A person whom the orchestrator (統括者) of a set of related multilevel marketing undertakings (連鎖販売業) has solicit others to enter into multilevel marketing transactions (連鎖販売取引) connected with them.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (10)
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new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions

新特定商取引法(しんとくていしょうとりひきほう)

This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 44 of 2004.

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new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions

新特定商取引法(しんとくていしょうとりひきほう)

This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 74 of 2008.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)
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new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions

新特定商取引法(しんとくていしょうとりひきほう)

This Act as amended by Act No. 59 of 2012.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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new Act on Specified Commercial Transactions

新特定商取引法(しんとくていしょうとりひきほう)

Short name, in the supplementary provisions (附則) of an amending law, for this Act as that law amended it: by Article 1 of Act No. 44 of 2004, by Article 2 of Act No. 74 of 2008, by Act No. 59 of 2012, or by Article 1 of Act No. 72 of 2021 (without the amendments listed in Article 1 of that Act's supplementary provisions).

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (5)
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general multilevel marketing distributor

一般連鎖販売業者(いっぱんれんさはんばいぎょうしゃ)

A person who carries on a multilevel marketing undertaking (連鎖販売業) but is neither the orchestrator (統括者) of the chain nor a solicitor (勧誘者).

統括者又は勧誘者以外の者であつて、連鎖販売業を行う者

Article 33-2, paragraph (1)
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general multilevel marketing distributor

一般連鎖販売業者(いっぱんれんさはんばいぎょうしゃ)

A person who carries on a multilevel marketing undertaking (連鎖販売業) but is neither the orchestrator (統括者) of the chain nor a solicitor (勧誘者).

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (10)
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telemarketing sale

電話勧誘販売(でんわかんゆうはんばい)

A sale of goods (商品) or specified rights (特定権利), or provision of services, in which a seller or service provider solicits the customer during a phone call it made, or had the customer make by a method a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, and then receives the offer or makes the contract by post or similar means (郵便等).

販売業者又は役務提供事業者が、電話をかけ又は政令で定める方法により電話をかけさせ、その電話において行う売買契約又は役務提供契約の締結についての勧誘(以下「電話勧誘行為」という。)により、その相手方(以下「電話勧誘顧客」という。)から当該売買契約の申込みを郵便等により受け、若しくは電話勧誘顧客と当該売買契約を郵便等により締結して行う商品若しくは特定権利の販売又は電話勧誘顧客から当該役務提供契約の申込みを郵便等により受け、若しくは電話勧誘顧客と当該役務提供契約を郵便等により締結して行う役務の提供

Article 2, paragraph (3)
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employees

使用人(しようにん)

An employee in a position a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, such as a person who runs the business of a business office (営業所).

Article 8, paragraph (2)
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door-to-door purchase

訪問購入(ほうもんこうにゅう)

A purchase of articles (物品) by a person who buys articles as a business (a buyer, 購入業者), under a contract offered or made away from its business office or similar place (営業所等) — except articles a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes because buying them this way is unlikely to harm the seller's interests or because applying these rules would seriously disrupt their distribution.

物品の購入を業として営む者(以下「購入業者」という。)が営業所等以外の場所において、売買契約の申込みを受け、又は売買契約を締結して行う物品(当該売買契約の相手方の利益を損なうおそれがないと認められる物品又はこの章の規定の適用を受けることとされた場合に流通が著しく害されるおそれがあると認められる物品であつて、政令で定めるものを除く。以下この章、同項及び第六十七条第一項において同じ。)の購入

Article 58-4, paragraph (1)
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email advertising mail order sales

通信販売電子メール広告(つうしんはんばいでんしめーるこうこく)

Email advertising (電子メール広告) of the terms on which goods or specified rights (特定権利) are sold, or services provided, by mail order (通信販売).

Article 12-3, paragraph (1), item (i)
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offerer or purchaser

申込者等(もうしこみしゃとう)

The person who made the offer, or the other party to the contract once it is made: in door-to-door sales (訪問販売), telemarketing sales (電話勧誘販売) and Article 59, the purchaser (or, for services, the person receiving them), and in door-to-door purchases (訪問購入), the person selling articles to the buyer (購入業者).

Article 9, paragraph (1)
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offerer or purchaser

申込者等(もうしこみしゃとう)

The person who made the offer, or the other party to the contract once it is made: in door-to-door sales (訪問販売), telemarketing sales (電話勧誘販売) and Article 59, the purchaser (or, for services, the person receiving them), and in door-to-door purchases (訪問購入), the person selling articles to the buyer (購入業者).

Article 24, paragraph (1)
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multilevel marketing contract

連鎖販売契約(れんさはんばいけいやく)

A contract for a multilevel marketing transaction (連鎖販売取引) connected with a multilevel marketing undertaking (連鎖販売業).

Article 37, paragraph (2)
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contract for specified continuous service or sale of specified rights

特定継続的役務提供等契約(とくていけいぞくてきえきむていきょうとうけいやく)

Either a specified continuous service contract (特定継続的役務提供契約) or a sales contract for specified rights (特定権利販売契約).

Article 42, paragraph (1)
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offerer or purchaser

申込者等(もうしこみしゃとう)

The person who made the offer, or the other party to the contract once it is made: in door-to-door sales (訪問販売), telemarketing sales (電話勧誘販売) and Article 59, the purchaser (or, for services, the person receiving them), and in door-to-door purchases (訪問購入), the person selling articles to the buyer (購入業者).

Article 58-14, paragraph (1)
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offerer or purchaser

申込者等(もうしこみしゃとう)

The person who made the offer, or the other party to the contract once it is made: in door-to-door sales (訪問販売), telemarketing sales (電話勧誘販売) and Article 59, the purchaser (or, for services, the person receiving them), and in door-to-door purchases (訪問購入), the person selling articles to the buyer (購入業者).

Article 59, paragraph (1)
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multilevel marketing contract

連鎖販売契約(れんさはんばいけいやく)

A contract for a multilevel marketing transaction (連鎖販売取引) connected with a multilevel marketing undertaking (連鎖販売業).

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withdrawal of an offer or cancellation

申込みの撤回等(もうしこみのてっかいとう)

Withdrawing an offer to enter into a contract, or cancelling the contract — a sales contract, or in some Articles also a service contract (役務提供契約) — under the Article that uses the term.

Article 9, paragraph (1)
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withdrawal of an offer or cancellation

申込みの撤回等(もうしこみのてっかいとう)

Withdrawing an offer to enter into a contract, or cancelling the contract — a sales contract, or in some Articles also a service contract (役務提供契約) — under the Article that uses the term.

Article 9-2, paragraph (1)
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withdrawal of an offer or cancellation

申込みの撤回等(もうしこみのてっかいとう)

Withdrawing an offer to enter into a contract, or cancelling the contract — a sales contract, or in some Articles also a service contract (役務提供契約) — under the Article that uses the term.

Article 15-3, paragraph (1)
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withdrawal of an offer or cancellation

申込みの撤回等(もうしこみのてっかいとう)

Withdrawing an offer to enter into a contract, or cancelling the contract — a sales contract, or in some Articles also a service contract (役務提供契約) — under the Article that uses the term.

Article 24, paragraph (1)
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withdrawal of an offer or cancellation

申込みの撤回等(もうしこみのてっかいとう)

Withdrawing an offer to enter into a contract, or cancelling the contract — a sales contract, or in some Articles also a service contract (役務提供契約) — under the Article that uses the term.

Article 24-2, paragraph (1)
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door-to-door sales association

訪問販売協会(ほうもんはんばいきょうかい)

A general incorporated association set up under Article 27 whose name includes the words 訪問販売協会 (door-to-door sales association), whose purpose is to make door-to-door sales fair, protect purchasers and service recipients and help the business develop soundly, and whose members are businesses engaged in door-to-door sales.

Article 27-2, paragraph (1)
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specified burden

特定負担(とくていふたん)

In the chapters on multilevel marketing and on business opportunity sales, the burden the person drawn in takes on: buying the goods (商品), paying for the services, or providing a transaction fee (取引料).

その商品の購入若しくはその役務の対価の支払又は取引料の提供

Article 33, paragraph (1)
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specified burden

特定負担(とくていふたん)

In the chapters on multilevel marketing and on business opportunity sales, the burden the person drawn in takes on: buying the goods (商品), paying for the services, or providing a transaction fee (取引料).

その商品の購入若しくはその役務の対価の支払又は取引料の提供

Article 51, paragraph (1)
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withdrawal of an offer or cancellation

申込みの撤回等(もうしこみのてっかいとう)

Withdrawing an offer to enter into a contract, or cancelling the contract — a sales contract, or in some Articles also a service contract (役務提供契約) — under the Article that uses the term.

Article 58-14, paragraph (1)
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business opportunity sales contract

業務提供誘引販売契約(ぎょうむていきょうゆういんはんばいけいやく)

A contract for a business opportunity sales transaction (業務提供誘引販売取引) connected with a business opportunity sales business (業務提供誘引販売業).

Article 55, paragraph (2)
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business opportunity sales contract

業務提供誘引販売契約(ぎょうむていきょうゆういんはんばいけいやく)

A contract for a business opportunity sales transaction (業務提供誘引販売取引) connected with a business opportunity sales business (業務提供誘引販売業).

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specified continuous service contract

特定継続的役務提供契約(とくていけいぞくてきえきむていきょうけいやく)

A contract under which a service provider undertakes to provide specified continuous services (特定継続的役務) for longer than the period a Cabinet Order (政令) sets for each such service, and the other party undertakes in return to pay more than the amount a Cabinet Order sets.

Article 41, paragraph (1), item (i)
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the former Act

旧法(きゅうほう)

This Act as it stood before Act No. 43 of 1988 amended it.

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specified continuous service contract

特定継続的役務提供契約(とくていけいぞくてきえきむていきょうけいやく)

A contract under which a service provider undertakes to provide specified continuous services (特定継続的役務) for longer than the period a Cabinet Order (政令) sets for each such service, and the other party undertakes in return to pay more than the amount a Cabinet Order sets.

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the former Act

旧法(きゅうほう)

This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 60 of 2016 amended it.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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email advertising multilevel marketing transactions

連鎖販売取引電子メール広告(れんさはんばいとりひきでんしめーるこうこく)

Email advertising (電子メール広告) for multilevel marketing transactions (連鎖販売取引) connected with a set of related multilevel marketing undertakings run by an orchestrator (統括者).

Article 36-3, paragraph (1), item (i)
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email advertising business opportunity sales transactions

業務提供誘引販売取引電子メール広告(ぎょうむていきょうゆういんはんばいとりひきでんしめーるこうこく)

Email advertising (電子メール広告) for business opportunity sales transactions (業務提供誘引販売取引) connected with a person's business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売業).

Article 54-3, paragraph (1), item (i)
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office or other location

営業所等(えいぎょうしょとう)

A business office (営業所), agency (代理店) or other place an order of the competent ministry (主務省令) specifies; a sale or service contract offered or made away from such a place is a door-to-door sale (訪問販売).

Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)
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electronic or magnetic means

電磁的方法(でんじてきほうほう)

A way of using an electronic data processing system or other information and communications technology, of a kind an order of the competent ministry (主務省令) specifies — used, for example, when a seller or service provider, with the customer's consent, provides the contents of a document it must hand over instead of the paper itself.

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主務省令で定めるもの

Article 4, paragraph (2)
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mail order sales association

通信販売協会(つうしんはんばいきょうかい)

A general incorporated association set up under Article 30 whose name includes the words 通信販売協会 (mail order sales association), whose purpose is to make mail order sales fair, protect purchasers and service recipients and help the business develop soundly, and whose members are businesses engaged in mail order sales.

Article 30-2, paragraph (1)
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qualified consumer organization

適格消費者団体(てきかくしょうひしゃだんたい)

A qualified consumer organization as defined in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Consumer Contract Act (Act No. 61 of 2000): a consumer organization (消費者団体) that is a corporation and that the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) has certified under Article 13 of that Act as fit to exercise the right to demand an injunction (差止請求権) in the interest of consumers at large.

Article 58-18, paragraph (1)
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goods, designated rights or services

商品等(しょうひんとう)

In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 60 of 2016, goods, services, or designated rights (指定権利) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (4) of this Act before Article 1 of that Act amended it.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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sales contract for specified rights

特定権利販売契約(とくていけんりはんばいけいやく)

A contract under which a seller sells, for more than an amount a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, a right to receive specified continuous services (特定継続的役務) for longer than the period a Cabinet Order sets for those services.

Article 41, paragraph (1), item (ii)
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sales contract for specified rights

特定権利販売契約(とくていけんりはんばいけいやく)

A contract under which a seller sells, for more than an amount a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, a right to receive specified continuous services (特定継続的役務) for longer than the period a Cabinet Order sets for those services.

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specified associated corporation

特定関係法人(とくていかんけいほうじん)

A corporation whose business management is in substance controlled by the trader concerned — depending on the provision, a seller or service provider, an orchestrator (統括者), solicitor (勧誘者) or general multilevel marketing distributor (一般連鎖販売業者), a person engaged in business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売業), or a buyer (購入業者) — or by its officers or employees (使用人), counting anyone who was an officer or employee within one year before the order suspending the trader's business, or another corporation of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

販売業者若しくは役務提供事業者又はその役員若しくはその営業所の業務を統括する者その他の政令で定める使用人(以下単に「使用人」という。)(当該命令の日前一年以内において役員又は使用人であつた者を含む。次条第二項、第十五条の二第二項及び第二十三条の二第二項において同じ。)が事業経営を実質的に支配する法人その他の政令で定める法人

Article 8, paragraph (2)
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specified associated corporation

特定関係法人(とくていかんけいほうじん)

A corporation whose business management is in substance controlled by the trader concerned — depending on the provision, a seller or service provider, an orchestrator (統括者), solicitor (勧誘者) or general multilevel marketing distributor (一般連鎖販売業者), a person engaged in business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売業), or a buyer (購入業者) — or by its officers or employees (使用人), counting anyone who was an officer or employee within one year before the order suspending the trader's business, or another corporation of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

統括者、勧誘者若しくは一般連鎖販売業者又はその役員若しくはその使用人(当該命令の日前一年以内において役員又は使用人であつた者を含む。次条第四項において同じ。)が事業経営を実質的に支配する法人その他の政令で定める法人

Article 39, paragraph (4)
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sales contract for goods

商品販売契約(しょうひんはんばいけいやく)

In Article 40-2, a contract for goods (商品) that a person carrying on a multilevel marketing undertaking (連鎖販売業) sold to an affiliate (連鎖販売加入者) before the affiliate's multilevel marketing contract (連鎖販売契約) was cancelled, including the part of that contract covering goods bought as its specified burden (特定負担).

Article 40-2, paragraph (2)
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specified associated corporation

特定関係法人(とくていかんけいほうじん)

A corporation whose business management is in substance controlled by the trader concerned — depending on the provision, a seller or service provider, an orchestrator (統括者), solicitor (勧誘者) or general multilevel marketing distributor (一般連鎖販売業者), a person engaged in business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売業), or a buyer (購入業者) — or by its officers or employees (使用人), counting anyone who was an officer or employee within one year before the order suspending the trader's business, or another corporation of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

役務提供事業者若しくは販売業者又はその役員若しくはその使用人(当該命令の日前一年以内において役員又は使用人であつた者を含む。次条第二項において同じ。)が事業経営を実質的に支配する法人その他の政令で定める法人

Article 47, paragraph (2)
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related goods

関連商品(かんれんしょうひん)

Goods that a Cabinet Order (政令) designates as goods a service recipient or purchaser (特定継続的役務提供受領者等) needs to buy for the provision of specified continuous services (特定継続的役務) by the service provider or seller.

Article 48, paragraph (2)
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specified associated corporation

特定関係法人(とくていかんけいほうじん)

A corporation whose business management is in substance controlled by the trader concerned — depending on the provision, a seller or service provider, an orchestrator (統括者), solicitor (勧誘者) or general multilevel marketing distributor (一般連鎖販売業者), a person engaged in business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売業), or a buyer (購入業者) — or by its officers or employees (使用人), counting anyone who was an officer or employee within one year before the order suspending the trader's business, or another corporation of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

業務提供誘引販売業を行う者又はその役員若しくはその使用人(当該命令の日前一年以内において役員又は使用人であつた者を含む。次条第二項において同じ。)が事業経営を実質的に支配する法人その他の政令で定める法人

Article 57, paragraph (2)
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specified associated corporation

特定関係法人(とくていかんけいほうじん)

A corporation whose business management is in substance controlled by the trader concerned — depending on the provision, a seller or service provider, an orchestrator (統括者), solicitor (勧誘者) or general multilevel marketing distributor (一般連鎖販売業者), a person engaged in business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売業), or a buyer (購入業者) — or by its officers or employees (使用人), counting anyone who was an officer or employee within one year before the order suspending the trader's business, or another corporation of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

購入業者又はその役員若しくはその使用人(当該命令の日前一年以内において役員又は使用人であつた者を含む。次条第二項において同じ。)が事業経営を実質的に支配する法人その他の政令で定める法人

Article 58-13, paragraph (2)
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electronic or magnetic record

電磁的記録(でんじてききろく)

A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.

電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるもの

Article 9, paragraph (1)
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service recipient or purchaser

特定継続的役務提供受領者等(とくていけいぞくてきえきむていきょうじゅりょうしゃとう)

In the chapter on specified continuous services, a person who receives specified continuous services (特定継続的役務) under a specified continuous service contract (特定継続的役務提供契約), or who buys the right to receive them under a sales contract for specified rights (特定権利販売契約).

Article 46, paragraph (1)
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specified designated goods

特定指定商品(とくていしていしょうひん)

In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 43 of 1988, goods that were designated goods (指定商品) under Article 2, paragraph (3) of this Act both as amended by that Act and before it.

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telemarketing target

電話勧誘顧客(でんわかんゆうこきゃく)

The person a seller or service provider solicits by telephone (電話勧誘行為) with a view to a sales contract or service contract (役務提供契約).

Article 2, paragraph (3)
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postal mail or a similar means

郵便等(ゆうびんとう)

Post, or another means an order of the competent ministry (主務省令) specifies, used for receiving offers or making contracts in mail order sales (通信販売) and telemarketing sales (電話勧誘販売).

Article 2, paragraph (2)
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facsimile advertisements for mail order sales

通信販売ファクシミリ広告(つうしんはんばいふぁくしみりこうこく)

In Article 12-5, an advertisement sent by fax setting out the terms on which goods or specified rights (特定権利) are sold, or services provided, by mail order (通信販売).

Article 12-5, paragraph (1), item (i)
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installment sale

割賦販売(かっぷはんばい)

An installment sale as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Installment Sales Act (Act No. 159 of 1961) — among other things, selling designated goods or rights (指定商品, 指定権利), or providing designated services (指定役務), on terms that the price is received over two months or more in three or more payments.

割賦販売法(昭和三十六年法律第百五十九号)第二条第一項に規定する割賦販売

Article 26, paragraph (8)
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multilevel marketing affiliate

連鎖販売加入者(れんさはんばいかにゅうしゃ)

In the multilevel marketing chapter, the other party to a multilevel marketing contract (連鎖販売契約), limited to an individual who sells or provides the chain's goods or services, or arranges their sale or provision, without a store or similar facility (店舗等).

Article 40, paragraph (1)
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sales contract for related goods

関連商品販売契約(かんれんしょうひんはんばいけいやく)

A contract for the sale of related goods (関連商品) — goods a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as ones a customer of specified continuous services (特定継続的役務) needs to buy to receive them — that the service provider or seller sold, or sold as agent or intermediary.

Article 48, paragraph (2)
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sales contract for related goods

関連商品販売契約(かんれんしょうひんはんばいけいやく)

A contract for the sale of related goods (関連商品) — goods a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as ones a customer of specified continuous services (特定継続的役務) needs to buy to receive them — that the service provider or seller sold, or sold as agent or intermediary.

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specified designated goods, rights or services

特定指定商品等(とくていしていしょうひんとう)

In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 74 of 2008, designated goods (指定商品), designated rights (指定権利) or designated services (指定役務) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (4) of this Act before Article 2 of that Act amended it.

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further amended Act on Specified Commercial Transactions

新々特定商取引法(しんしんとくていしょうとりひきほう)

Short name, in Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 72 of 2021, for this Act as amended by those provisions of Article 1 of that Act listed in Article 1, item (iii)(a) of the supplementary provisions — the amendments that come into effect later, on the item (iii) effective date (第三号施行日).

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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item (iii) effective date

第三号施行日(だいさんごうしこうび)

The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 72 of 2021 come into effect — a date a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, within two years from the day that Act was promulgated (公布).

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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act of telemarketing

電話勧誘行為(でんわかんゆうこうい)

Soliciting a sales contract or service contract (役務提供契約) during a telephone call that a seller or service provider makes, or has the customer make by a method a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

Article 2, paragraph (3)
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former Act on Specified Commercial Transactions

旧特定商取引法(きゅうとくていしょうとりひきほう)

This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 72 of 2021 amended it.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (5)
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contractor sending email advertising mail order sales

通信販売電子メール広告受託事業者(つうしんはんばいでんしめーるこうこくじゅたくじぎょうしゃ)

A person to whom a seller or service provider has entrusted, all together, the tasks listed in Article 12-3, paragraph (5): getting recipients' consent to, or requests for, its mail order email advertising (通信販売電子メール広告), making and keeping the records of them, and showing recipients what they need to say they want no more.

Article 12-4, paragraph (1)
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specified offer

特定申込み(とくていもうしこみ)

An offer to enter into a sales contract or service contract (役務提供契約) in a mail order sale (通信販売) that a customer makes on a form the seller or service provider (or someone it has entrusted) provides, or by following steps it displays on the screen of the customer's computer.

Article 12-6, paragraph (1)
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specified profit

特定利益(とくていりえき)

In the multilevel marketing rules, all or part of the transaction fees (取引料) paid by other people who resell, sell on consignment or arrange sales of the goods, or who provide or arrange the same kind of services, and of other profits meeting requirements set by order of the competent ministry (主務省令) — the gain used to draw people into multilevel marketing.

その商品の再販売、受託販売若しくは販売のあつせんをする他の者又は同種役務の提供若しくはその役務の提供のあつせんをする他の者が提供する取引料その他の主務省令で定める要件に該当する利益の全部又は一部

Article 33, paragraph (1)
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store or similar facility

店舗等(てんぽとう)

A store (店舗) or similar facility; several of this Act's provisions on multilevel marketing (連鎖販売取引) protect individuals who sell or provide the chain's goods or services, or arrange their sale or provision, without one.

Article 34, paragraph (1)
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contractor sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions

連鎖販売取引電子メール広告受託事業者(れんさはんばいとりひきでんしめーるこうこくじゅたくじぎょうしゃ)

A person to whom an orchestrator (統括者), solicitor (勧誘者) or general multilevel marketing distributor (一般連鎖販売業者) has entrusted, all together, the tasks listed in Article 36-3, paragraph (5): getting recipients' consent to, or requests for, its multilevel marketing email advertising (連鎖販売取引電子メール広告), making and keeping the records of them, and showing recipients what they need to say they want no more.

Article 36-4, paragraph (1)
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