To the extent necessary for the enforcement of this Act, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may have the relevant officials enter the business office or other office of a licensed installment seller, comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, individual credit purchase intermediary, designated credit bureau, person that has obtained the license referred to in Article 35-3-61, designated entrusted institution, a business that has a contract for handling credit card numbers, or certified installment sales association, and inspect its books and documents and other articles.
経済産業大臣は、この法律の施行に必要な限度において、その職員に、許可割賦販売業者、包括信用購入あつせん業者、個別信用購入あつせん業者、指定信用情報機関、第三十五条の三の六十一の許可を受けた者、指定受託機関、クレジットカード番号等取扱契約締結事業者又は認定割賦販売協会の営業所又は事務所に立ち入り、帳簿、書類その他の物件の検査をさせることができる。
In a case as prescribed in paragraph (2), paragraph (4), or paragraph (6) of the preceding Article, if the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly necessary in order to protect the interests of users, purchasers, service recipients, or recipients of designated services, the minister, within the scope that it is necessary, may have the relevant officials enter the business office or office of a licensed installment seller, comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, individual credit purchase intermediary, or person that has obtained the license referred to in Article 35-3-61, and inspect its books and documents and other articles.
内閣総理大臣は、前条第二項、第四項又は第六項に規定する場合において利用者又は購入者若しくは役務の提供を受ける者若しくは指定役務の提供を受ける者の利益を保護するため特に必要があると認めるときは、その必要な限度において、その職員に、許可割賦販売業者、包括信用購入あつせん業者、個別信用購入あつせん業者又は第三十五条の三の六十一の許可を受けた者の営業所又は事務所に立ち入り、帳簿、書類その他の物件の検査をさせることができる。
To the extent necessary for the enforcement of this Act, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may have the relevant officials enter the business office or office of a business that handles credit card numbers or an entrusted business that handles credit card numbers and inspect its books and documents and other articles (but may only have the relevant officials inspect these in connection with the extent of the proper management of credit card numbers).
経済産業大臣は、この法律の施行に必要な限度において、その職員に、クレジットカード番号等取扱業者又はクレジットカード番号等取扱受託業者の営業所又は事務所に立ち入り、帳簿、書類その他の物件の検査(クレジットカード番号等の適切な管理等の状況に係るものに限る。)をさせることができる。
If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds it to be particularly necessary in order to enforce this Act, the minister, within the scope that it is necessary, may have the relevant officials enter the business office or office of a person that has been entrusted by a comprehensive credit purchase intermediary with services linked to the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases and inspect its books and documents and other articles (but may only have the relevant officials inspect these in connection with the services linked to the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases with which the person has been entrusted).
経済産業大臣は、この法律の施行のため特に必要があると認めるときは、その必要な限度において、その職員に、包括信用購入あつせん業者から包括信用購入あつせんに係る業務の委託を受けた者の営業所又は事務所に立ち入り、帳簿、書類その他の物件の検査(その委託を受けた包括信用購入あつせんに係る業務に係るものに限る。)をさせることができる。
If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds it to be particularly necessary in order to enforce this Act, the minister, within the scope that it is necessary, may have the relevant officials enter the business office or office of a closely related person and inspect its books and documents and other articles (but may only have the relevant officials inspect these in connection with the extent of an individual credit purchase intermediary's compliance with the provisions of Article 35-3-5 and the main clause of Article 35-3-7).
経済産業大臣は、この法律の施行のため特に必要があると認めるときは、その必要な限度において、その職員に、密接関係者の営業所又は事務所に立ち入り、帳簿、書類その他の物件の検査(個別信用購入あつせん業者の第三十五条の三の五及び第三十五条の三の七本文の規定の遵守の状況に係るものに限る。)をさせることができる。
If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds it to be particularly necessary in order to ensure the proper management of specified credit information services, the minister, within the scope that it is necessary, may have the relevant officials enter the business office or office of a participating comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, participating individual credit purchase intermediary, or any other person that uses a designated credit bureau, or of a person that has been entrusted as under the paragraphs of Article 35-3-42, and inspect its books and documents and other articles (but may only have the relevant officials inspect these in connection with the business activities or assets of the designated credit bureau).
経済産業大臣は、特定信用情報提供等業務の適正な運営を確保するため特に必要があると認めるときは、その必要な限度において、その職員に、加入包括信用購入あつせん業者、加入個別信用購入あつせん業者その他の指定信用情報機関を利用する者又は第三十五条の三の四十二各項の規定による委託を受けた者の営業所又は事務所に立ち入り、帳簿、書類その他の物件の検査(当該指定信用情報機関の業務又は財産に係るものに限る。)をさせることができる。
An official that conducts an on-site inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraphs must carry identification and present it to the relevant parties.
前各項の規定により立入検査をする職員は、その身分を示す証明書を携帯し、関係人に提示しなければならない。
The authority to conduct an on-site inspection under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (6) must not be construed as being accorded for the purpose of a criminal investigation.
第一項から第六項までの規定による立入検査の権限は、犯罪捜査のために認められたものと解釈してはならない。
Before seeking to conduct an on-site inspection under paragraph (2), the Prime Minister must consult with the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.
内閣総理大臣は、第二項の規定による立入検査をしようとするときは、あらかじめ、経済産業大臣に協議しなければならない。
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intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases
「包括信用購入あつせん」
Giving a user a card or similar means (カード等) — a card, number or code — with which the user can buy goods or rights from particular sellers, or receive services from particular service providers, then paying the seller or provider and collecting the amount from the user later: either by a set date more than two months after the purchase contract, or in amounts worked out at set intervals from the total bought.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
designated services
「指定役務」
In Article 2, paragraph (6), Articles 35-3-61 and 35-3-62, and Articles 41 and 41-2, the services a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies for specified prepaid transactions (前払式特定取引).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies only in this paragraph and in Articles 35-3-61, 35-3-62, 41 and 41-2
licensed installment seller
「許可割賦販売業者」
A person licensed by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry under Article 11 to carry on prepaid installment sales (前払式割賦販売) as a business.
Short name set inArticle 15, paragraph (1), item (viii), (c)
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)
specified credit information servicesmachine translation
「特定信用情報提供等業務」
The business of collecting specified credit information (特定信用情報) and providing it to comprehensive and individual credit purchase intermediaries — what a designated credit bureau (指定信用情報機関) is designated to do.
Defined inArticle 35-3-36, paragraph (1)
participating individual credit purchase intermediarymachine translation
「加入個別信用購入あつせん業者」
An individual credit purchase intermediary (個別信用購入あつせん業者) that has made a specified credit information service contract (特定信用情報提供契約) with a designated credit bureau (指定信用情報機関).
Short name set inArticle 35-3-43, paragraph (1), item (vii)
participating comprehensive credit purchase intermediarymachine translation
「加入包括信用購入あつせん業者」
A comprehensive credit purchase intermediary (包括信用購入あつせん業者) that has made a specified credit information service contract (特定信用情報提供契約) with a designated credit bureau (指定信用情報機関).
Short name set inArticle 35-3-43, paragraph (1), item (vii)
designated entrusted institution
「指定受託機関」
A body designated under Article 18-3, paragraph (4) to act as the entrusted party under contracts on the entrustment of business deposits (供託委託契約) that protect the advance payments licensed installment sellers have received.
Short name set inArticle 35-5, paragraph (1), item (vii), (d)
business that handles credit card numbersmachine translation
「クレジットカード番号等取扱業者」
Any of the businesses Article 35-16, paragraph (1) lists as handling credit card numbers and similar codes (クレジットカード番号等): card issuers and businesses offering two-month installment purchases, the sellers and service providers that accept their cards, businesses that pass the payments on to those sellers, services that link card numbers to other payment information and those entrusted with managing the linked numbers, and others an Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業省令) names as handling large numbers of them.
Defined inArticle 35-16, paragraph (1)
entrusted business that handles credit card numbersmachine translation
「クレジットカード番号等取扱受託業者」
A third party to which a business that handles credit card numbers (クレジットカード番号等取扱業者) entrusts all or part of its handling of those numbers, or anyone to which that third party in turn entrusts it, at however many removes.
Defined inArticle 35-16, paragraph (3)
business that has a contract for handling credit card numbersmachine translation
「クレジットカード番号等取扱契約締結事業者」
A business registered under Article 35-17-2 — a credit card purchase intermediary (クレジットカード等購入あつせん業者), or a business acting for a particular one — whose business is making contracts that allow sellers and service providers to handle the credit card numbers and similar codes (クレジットカード番号等) given to users.
Defined inArticle 35-17-5, paragraph (1), item (v), (d)
proper management of credit card numbers
「クレジットカード番号等の適切な管理等」
Keeping credit card numbers and similar codes (クレジットカード番号等) properly managed, or preventing users from using them fraudulently — what a business must check a seller or service provider for under Article 35-17-8 before contracting to let it handle them.
Short name set inArticle 35-17-8, paragraph (1)
certified installment sales association
「認定割賦販売協会」
A general incorporated association (一般社団法人) set up by installment sellers and the other businesses Article 35-18, paragraph (1) names and certified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, which makes rules for fair dealing and the proper management of credit card numbers, checks and guides its members' compliance, and handles complaints from users.
Short name set inArticle 35-18, paragraph (2)
closely related person
「密接関係者」
A seller or service provider affiliated with the intermediation of individual credit purchases, or another person a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as closely connected with an individual credit purchase intermediary (個別信用購入あつせん業者), whom the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may order to report or submit materials on that intermediary's compliance with Articles 35-3-5 and 35-3-7, or whose offices the Minister may have inspected.
Short name set inArticle 40, paragraph (10)· applies only in this provision and in Article 41, paragraph (5)
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.