If a business that handles credit card numbers or an entrusted business that handles credit card numbers, or the officer or employee of any of these or a person that has held one of these positions, provides another party with, or misappropriates, a credit card number learned in the course of business for the purpose of obtaining a wrongful benefit for themselves or a third party, such a person is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than three years or by a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.
クレジットカード番号等取扱業者若しくはクレジットカード番号等取扱受託業者又はこれらの役員若しくは職員若しくはこれらの職にあつた者が、その業務に関して知り得たクレジットカード番号等を自己若しくは第三者の不正な利益を図る目的で、提供し、又は盗用したときは、三年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
The provisions of the preceding paragraph also apply to a first person that cons a second person into providing the first person with a credit card number. The same applies to a person that acquires another person's credit card number in a way that is stated in one of the following items:
人を欺いてクレジットカード番号等を提供させた者も、前項と同様とする。クレジットカード番号等を次の各号のいずれかに掲げる方法で取得した者も、同様とする。
by copying an entry in a document or a record on a recording medium that is meant for the records of the person whose credit card number is stated or recorded in it, without obtaining that person's consent; or
クレジットカード番号等が記載され、又は記録された人の管理に係る書面又は記録媒体の記載又は記録について、その承諾を得ずにその複製を作成すること。
through unauthorized access (meaning unauthorized access as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Prohibition of Unauthorized Computer Access (Act No. 128 of 1999)).
不正アクセス行為（不正アクセス行為の禁止等に関する法律（平成十一年法律第百二十八号）第二条第四項に規定する不正アクセス行為をいう。）を行うこと。
The provisions of paragraph (1) apply to a person that provides someone with another person's credit card number or receives another person's credit card number, for remuneration, without legitimate grounds. The same applies to a person that keeps another person's credit card number for the purpose of providing it to someone for remuneration, without legitimate grounds.
正当な理由がないのに、有償で、クレジットカード番号等を提供し、又はその提供を受けた者も、第一項と同様とする。正当な理由がないのに、有償で提供する目的で、クレジットカード番号等を保管した者も、同様とする。
The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs do not preclude the application of the Penal Code or any other penal provisions.
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credit card numbersmachine translation
「クレジットカード番号等」
A number, symbol or other code of the kind in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (i) — such as a credit card number — that a comprehensive credit purchase intermediary (包括信用購入あつせん業者) or a business offering the intermediation of two-month installment purchases (二月払購入あつせん) gives a user in the course of its business.
Defined inArticle 35-16, paragraph (1)
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)
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.