Article 35-3-38Restriction on the Concurrent Holding of Positions by the Officers of a Designated Credit Bureau
第三十五条の三の三十八（指定信用情報機関の役員の兼職の制限）
Unless the representative of a designated credit bureau or an officer engaging in its day-to-day business operations obtains the authorization of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry to do so, it is prohibited for that representative or officer to become the representative of a comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, individual credit purchase intermediary, or other corporation specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry or to engage in its day-to-day business operations, and it is prohibited for that representative or officer to engage in the money lending business prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Money Lending Business Act or any other businesses specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
指定信用情報機関の代表者及び常務に従事する役員は、経済産業大臣の認可を受けた場合を除くほか、包括信用購入あつせん業者又は個別信用購入あつせん業者その他の経済産業省令で定める法人の代表者となり、若しくは常務に従事し、又は貸金業法第二条第一項に規定する貸金業その他の経済産業省令で定める事業を営んではならない。
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comprehensive credit purchase intermediary
「包括信用購入あつせん業者」
A person whose business is the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases (包括信用購入あつせん) — a credit card company, for example.
Short name set inArticle 30, paragraph (1)
designated credit bureau
「指定信用情報機関」
A body the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry has designated under Article 35-3-36, paragraph (1) to collect specified credit information (特定信用情報) and provide it to comprehensive and individual credit purchase intermediaries.
Short name set inArticle 30-2, paragraph (3)
individual credit purchase intermediarymachine translation
「個別信用購入あつせん業者」
A person whose business is the intermediation of individual credit purchases (個別信用購入あつせん).
Short name set inArticle 35-3-2, paragraph (1)
officermachine translation
「役員」
In Subsections 1 and 3 of Section 3 of Chapter III, on designated credit bureaus (指定信用情報機関), a member who executes the business (or, where that member is a corporation, the person who is to perform its duties), a director, an executive officer, an accounting advisor (or, where that is a corporation, the member who is to perform its duties), a company auditor, a representative or administrator, or an equivalent person.
Defined inArticle 35-3-36, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies only in this subsection and in Chapter 3, Section 3, Subsection 3