Article 33Registration and Notice
第三十三条(登録及びその通知)
Whenever there is an application for registration under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must register the matters stated in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and the date of registration in the comprehensive credit purchase intermediary register, unless the minister refuses to effect a registration, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article.
Once the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry effects a registration as referred to in Article 31, the minister must notify the applicant for the registration of this without delay.
経済産業大臣は、第三十一条の登録をしたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を当該登録の申請をした者に通知しなければならない。
Article 33-2Refusal to Effect a Registration
第三十三条の二(登録の拒否)
If the person submitting an application as referred to in Article 32, paragraph (1) falls under one of the following items, or if the application or a document accompanying it contains a false statement concerning important matters or omits a statement of important fact, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must refuse that registration:
経済産業大臣は、第三十二条第一項の申請書を提出した者が次の各号のいずれかに該当するとき、又は当該申請書若しくはその添付書類のうちに重要な事項について虚偽の記載があり、若しくは重要な事実の記載が欠けているときは、その登録を拒否しなければならない。
a person that is not a corporation;
法人でない者
if it is established under a foreign law, one that has no business office in Japan;
外国法人である場合には、国内に営業所を有しない者
a corporation with a stated capital or capital contributions of less than the amount that is found to be necessary and appropriate to protect sellers affiliated with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases or service providers affiliated with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases, as specified by Cabinet Order;
資本金又は出資の額が包括信用購入あつせん関係販売業者又は包括信用購入あつせん関係役務提供事業者を保護するため必要かつ適当であると認められる金額で政令で定めるものに満たない法人
a corporation with total assets minus total liabilities of an amount that is less than 90 percent of its stated capital or capital contributions;
資産の合計額から負債の合計額を控除した額が資本金又は出資の額の百分の九十に相当する額に満たない法人
a corporation whose registration has been rescinded pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of Article 34-2, if five years have not yet passed since the date of the rescission;
第三十四条の二第一項又は第二項の規定により登録を取り消され、その取消しの日から五年を経過しない法人
a corporation that has been sentenced to a fine pursuant to the provisions of this Act or the Money Lending Business Act (Act No. 32 of 1983), if five years have not yet passed since the day on which it finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its enforcement;
この法律又は貸金業法(昭和五十八年法律第三十二号)の規定により罰金の刑に処せられ、その刑の執行を終わり、又は執行を受けることがなくなつた日から五年を経過しない法人
a person that has not had rights restored after receiving a ruling of commencement of bankruptcy proceedings;
破産手続開始の決定を受けて復権を得ない者
a person that has been sentenced to imprisonment or a heavier punishment, if five years have not yet passed since the day on which the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its enforcement;
拘禁刑以上の刑に処せられ、その刑の執行を終わり、又は執行を受けることがなくなつた日から五年を経過しない者
a person that has been sentenced to a fine for violating the provisions of this Act, the Money Lending Business Act, or the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members (Act No. 77 of 1991) (excluding the provisions of Article 32-3, paragraph (7) and Article 32-11, paragraph (1) of that Act) or for committing a crime stated in the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) or in the Act on Punishment of Physical Violence and Others (Act No. 60 of 1926), if five years have not yet passed since the day on which the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its enforcement;
この法律、貸金業法若しくは暴力団員による不当な行為の防止等に関する法律(平成三年法律第七十七号)の規定(同法第三十二条の三第七項及び第三十二条の十一第一項の規定を除く。)に違反し、又は刑法(明治四十年法律第四十五号)若しくは暴力行為等処罰に関する法律(大正十五年法律第六十号)の罪を犯し、罰金の刑に処せられ、その刑の執行を終わり、又は執行を受けることがなくなつた日から五年を経過しない者
a person that, during the thirty days before the relevant disposition, was the officer of a registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary whose registration has been rescinded pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of Article 34-2, if five years have not yet passed since the date of that disposition; or
登録包括信用購入あつせん業者が第三十四条の二第一項又は第二項の規定により登録を取り消された場合において、その処分のあつた日前三十日以内にその登録包括信用購入あつせん業者の役員であつた者で、その処分のあつた日から五年を経過しないもの
a member of an organized crime group as prescribed in Article 2, item (vi) of Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members (referred to below as a "member of an organized crime group" in this item) or a person that has not yet had five years pass since the date on which the person ceased to be the member of an organized crime group (referred to below as the "member of an organized crime group, etc.");
暴力団員による不当な行為の防止等に関する法律第二条第六号に規定する暴力団員(以下この号において「暴力団員」という。)又は暴力団員でなくなつた日から五年を経過しない者(以下「暴力団員等」という。)
a corporation whose business activities are controlled by the member of an organized crime group, etc.;
暴力団員等がその事業活動を支配する法人
a corporation that is likely to allow the member of an organized crime group, etc. to engage in its business activities or to employ that person as an assistant in its business activities;
暴力団員等をその業務に従事させ、又はその業務の補助者として使用するおそれのある法人
a corporation specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as one that there are sufficient grounds to find likely to engage in illegal or dishonest acts in respect of business connected with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases; or
包括信用購入あつせんに係る業務に関し不正又は不誠実な行為をするおそれがあると認めるに足りる相当の理由がある法人として経済産業省令で定めるもの
a corporation that is found not to have in place the necessary system for ensuring the smooth implementation of investigations provided for in the main clause of Article 30-2, paragraph (1), the smooth implementation of measures specified in the provisions of Article 35-16, paragraphs (1) and (3), or the smooth implementation of other measures specified in this Act; the necessary system for appropriately and promptly processing complaints by users, purchasers, or service recipients; or any other system specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as necessary for ensuring fair and proper implementation in the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases.
第三十条の二第一項本文に規定する調査、第三十五条の十六第一項及び第三項に規定する措置その他この法律に定める措置の円滑な実施を確保するために必要な体制、利用者又は購入者若しくは役務の提供を受ける者の苦情を適切かつ迅速に処理するために必要な体制その他の包括信用購入あつせんの公正かつ適確な実施を確保するために必要なものとして経済産業省令で定める体制が整備されていると認められない法人
The provisions of Article 15, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis when an application for registration under Article 32, paragraph (1) is filed.
Article 33-3Notification of Changes
第三十三条の三(変更の届出)
If there is any change in a matter stated in one of the items of Article 32, paragraph (1), the registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary must notify the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of this without delay.
登録包括信用購入あつせん業者は、第三十二条第一項各号に掲げる事項について変更があつたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を経済産業大臣に届け出なければならない。
Upon receipt of the notification prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must register the matters reported in the notification to the comprehensive credit purchase intermediary register.
経済産業大臣は、前項の規定による変更の届出を受理したときは、その届出があつた事項を包括信用購入あつせん業者登録簿に登録しなければならない。
The provisions of Article 32, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis when the notification of a change under the provisions of paragraph (1) is filed.
Article 33-4Inspection of the Register
第三十三条の四(登録簿の閲覧)
The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must make the comprehensive credit purchase intermediary register available for public inspection.
経済産業大臣は、包括信用購入あつせん業者登録簿を一般の閲覧に供しなければならない。
第三十四条(改善命令)
If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds a registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary to have come to fall under the provisions of Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (xi) (excluding portions related to investigation stated in the main clause of paragraph (1) of Article 30-2, in the case of certified comprehensive credit purchase intermediaries), the minister, within the scope that it is necessary, may order the registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary to take the necessary measures to improve the business operations that are connected with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases.
経済産業大臣は、登録包括信用購入あつせん業者が第三十三条の二第一項第十一号(認定包括信用購入あつせん業者にあつては、第三十条の二第一項本文に規定する調査に係る部分を除く。)の規定に該当することとなつたと認めるときは、その必要の限度において、当該登録包括信用購入あつせん業者に対し、包括信用購入あつせんに係る業務の運営を改善するため必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。
Article 34-2Rescission of Registration
第三十四条の二(登録の取消し等)
If a registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary falls under one of the following items, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must rescind its registration:
経済産業大臣は、登録包括信用購入あつせん業者が次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、その登録を取り消さなければならない。
it comes to fall under the provisions of one of Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), item (iii) or items (vi) through (x); or
第三十三条の二第一項第二号、第三号又は第六号から第十号までのいずれかに該当することとなつたとき。
it has obtained the registration referred to in Article 31 by wrongful means.
不正の手段により第三十一条の登録を受けたとき。
If a registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary falls under one of the following items, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may rescind its registration, or may order the suspension of all or part of the business operations connected with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases during a fixed period of no longer than one year:
経済産業大臣は、登録包括信用購入あつせん業者が次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、その登録を取り消し、又は一年以内の期間を定めて、包括信用購入あつせんに係る業務の全部若しくは一部の停止を命ずることができる。
it violates an order under the provisions of Article 30-5-3, paragraph (1) (or Article 30-6, paragraph (1) (limited to portions related to Article 30-5-2; Articles 35-3-56 through 35-3-58; and Article 35-3-59, paragraph (1)), if that registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary is a certified comprehensive credit purchase intermediary) or the preceding Article;
第三十条の五の三第一項(当該登録包括信用購入あつせん業者が認定包括信用購入あつせん業者である場合にあつては、第三十条の六第一項(第三十条の五の二、第三十五条の三の五十六から第三十五条の三の五十八まで及び第三十五条の三の五十九第一項に係る部分に限る。))又は前条の規定による命令に違反したとき。
it comes to fall under the provisions of Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (iv); or
第三十三条の二第一項第四号の規定に該当することとなつたとき。
it fails to file a notification under the provisions of Article 33-3, paragraph (1) or files a false notification.
第三十三条の三第一項の規定による届出をせず、又は虚偽の届出をしたとき。
If a registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary violates the order referred to in item (i) of the preceding paragraph (limited to the order in a case in which the registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary violates the provisions of the main clause of paragraph (1) of Article 30-2; paragraph (3) or paragraph (4) of that Article; the main clause of Article 30-2-2; or Article 30-5-2 (or the provisions of that Article, if the registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary is a certified comprehensive credit purchase intermediary); the same applies in the following paragraph and Article 40, paragraph (4)), before the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry seeks to reach a disposition under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the minister must consult with the Prime Minister.
If a registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary violates an order under the provisions of paragraph (2), item (i) and the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary to protect the interests of users, purchasers, or service recipients, the minister may state a necessary opinion concerning the disposition under that paragraph to the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.
内閣総理大臣は、登録包括信用購入あつせん業者が第二項第一号の命令に違反した場合において、利用者又は購入者若しくは役務の提供を受ける者の利益を保護するため必要があると認めるときは、経済産業大臣に対し、同項の規定による処分に関し、必要な意見を述べることができる。
If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry rescinds a registration pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), the minister must notify the person that was formerly the relevant registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary of this, indicating the reasons, without delay.
経済産業大臣は、第一項又は第二項の規定により登録を取り消したときは、遅滞なく、その理由を示して、その旨を当該登録包括信用購入あつせん業者であつた者に通知しなければならない。
Article 34-3Deletion of Registration
第三十四条の三(登録の消除)
If a registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary falls under one of the following items, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must delete the registration of that registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary from the comprehensive credit purchase intermediary register:
経済産業大臣は、次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、包括信用購入あつせん業者登録簿につき、その登録包括信用購入あつせん業者に関する登録を消除しなければならない。
the minister rescinds its registration pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article; or
a notification under the provisions of Article 35 is filed, or the intermediary is discovered to have discontinued operations in the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases.
第三十五条の規定による届出があつたときその他包括信用購入あつせんの営業を廃止したことが判明したとき。
a registration referred to in Article 35-2-3, paragraph (1) is effected.
第三十五条の二の三第一項の登録をしたとき。
The provisions of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis if a registration is deleted pursuant to the provisions of item (ii) or (iii) of the preceding paragraph.
Article 34-4Public Notice of a Disposition
第三十四条の四(処分の公示)
When the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry rescinds a registration pursuant to the provisions of Article 34-2, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), or when it orders suspension of all or part of business operations connected with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases in accordance with that paragraph, or when it deletes a registration pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, paragraph (1), item (ii), it must issue public notice of this in accordance with what is specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
経済産業大臣は、第三十四条の二第一項若しくは第二項の規定により登録を取り消したとき、同項の規定により包括信用購入あつせんに係る業務の全部若しくは一部の停止を命じたとき、又は前条第一項第二号の規定により登録を消除したときは、経済産業省令で定めるところにより、その旨を公示しなければならない。
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
service provider affiliated with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchasesmachine translation
「包括信用購入あつせん関係役務提供事業者」
A service provider that has made a contract for the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases (包括信用購入あつせん) with a comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, or a contract for brokerage of third-party payments with a broker for third-party payments in that intermediation (包括信用購入あつせん関係立替払取次業者).
Short name set inArticle 30-2-3, paragraph (5)
seller affiliated with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchasesmachine translation
「包括信用購入あつせん関係販売業者」
A seller that has made a contract for the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases (包括信用購入あつせん) with a comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, or a contract for brokerage of third-party payments with a broker for third-party payments in that intermediation (包括信用購入あつせん関係立替払取次業者).
Short name set inArticle 30-2-3, paragraph (5)
certified comprehensive credit purchase intermediarycorrected by this site
「認定包括信用購入あつせん業者」
A comprehensive credit purchase intermediary certified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry under Article 30-5-4, paragraph (1) to calculate the user purchase amount projected to be affordable (利用者支払可能見込額) in place of the comprehensive purchase amount projected to be affordable (包括支払可能見込額).
Short name set inArticle 30-5-4, paragraph (3)
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)
officermachine translation
「役員」
In Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter III and Section 2 of Chapter III-4, a member who executes the business, a director, an executive officer or an equivalent person of a corporation, including anyone, whatever their title, an Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業省令) recognizes as having at least as much control over the corporation as they do.
Defined inArticle 32, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies only in this section and in Chapter 3, Section 2; and Chapter 3-4, Section 2
organized crime group membermachine translation
「暴力団員」
A member of an organized crime group as defined in Article 2(vi) of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members.
Short name set inArticle 33-2, paragraph (1), item (vii), (e)· applies only in this item
organized crime group member, etc.machine translation
「暴力団員等」
An organized crime group member (暴力団員) as defined in Article 2, item (vi) of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members, or a person who ceased to be one less than five years ago.
Short name set inArticle 33-2, paragraph (1), item (vii), (e)
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.
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.