In a case that falls under any of the following items, the violating representative, agent, employee, or other worker of a licensed installment seller, registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, registered comprehensive small amount credit purchase intermediary, registered individual credit purchase intermediary, or person that has obtained the license referred to in Article 35-3-61, is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than two years, a fine of not more than 3,000,000 yen, or both:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした許可割賦販売業者、登録包括信用購入あつせん業者、登録少額包括信用購入あつせん業者、登録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代表者、代理人、使用人その他の従業者は、二年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
the person violates an order under the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35-3-62);
第二十条第一項（第三十五条の三の六十二において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による命令に違反したとき。
the person violates an order under the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35-3-62);
第二十三条第二項（第三十五条の三の六十二において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による命令に違反したとき。
the person violates an order under the provisions of Article 34-2, paragraph (2);
第三十四条の二第二項の規定による命令に違反したとき。
the person violates an order under the provisions of Article 35-2-14, paragraph (2); or
第三十五条の二の十四第二項の規定による命令に違反したとき。
the person violates an order under the provisions of Article 35-3-32, paragraph (2).
第三十五条の三の三十二第二項の規定による命令に違反したとき。
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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)
registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary
「登録包括信用購入あつせん業者」
A corporation registered in the comprehensive credit purchase intermediary register kept at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; apart from the bodies Article 35-3-60, paragraph (1), item (iv) refers to, only such a corporation may carry on the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases (包括信用購入あつせん) as a business.
Short name set inArticle 31, paragraph (1)
registered comprehensive small amount credit purchase intermediarymachine translation
「登録少額包括信用購入あつせん業者」
A corporation registered in the comprehensive small amount credit purchase intermediary register kept at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which may carry on the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases (包括信用購入あつせん) as a business without the registration under Article 31, so long as the credit line (極度額) of the cards it issues does not exceed an amount a Cabinet Order (政令) sets.
Short name set inArticle 35-2-3, paragraph (1)
registered individual credit purchase intermediary
「登録個別信用購入あつせん業者」
A corporation registered in the individual credit purchase intermediary register kept at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; apart from the bodies Article 35-3-60, paragraph (2), item (iv) refers to, only such a corporation may carry on the intermediation of individual credit purchases (個別信用購入あつせん) as a business.
Short name set inArticle 35-3-23, paragraph (1)
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.