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Article 58-21Right to Demand an Injunction in Connection with Multilevel Marketing Transactions

第五十八条の二十一(連鎖販売取引に係る差止請求権)

If an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor has engaged in or is likely to engage in any of the following conduct toward a large number of unspecified persons, a qualified consumer organization may demand that the orchestrator, solicitor, or general multilevel marketing distributor discontinue or prevent that conduct, dispose of, or remove any object used for that conduct, or take any other necessary measures for discontinuing or preventing that conduct:

適格消費者団体は、統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者が、不特定かつ多数の者に対して次に掲げる行為を現に行い又は行うおそれがあるときは、それぞれその統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者に対し、当該行為の停止若しくは予防又は当該行為に供した物の廃棄若しくは除去その他の当該行為の停止若しくは予防に必要な措置をとることを請求することができる。

the orchestrator or solicitor intentionally fails to disclose facts with regard to the following matters or misrepresents that information in soliciting a person to enter into a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected to the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by that orchestrator (limited to a contract with an individual who sells or arranges the sale of goods associated with that multilevel marketing undertaking or provides or arranges providing services associated with that multilevel marketing undertaking, without using a store or similar facility; the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (3)) or for preventing the cancellation of a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected to the multilevel marketing undertaking:

統括者又は勧誘者が、その統括者の統括する一連の連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引についての契約(その連鎖販売業に係る商品の販売若しくはそのあつせん又は役務の提供若しくはそのあつせんを店舗等によらないで行う個人との契約に限る。以下この項及び第三項において同じ。)の締結について勧誘をするに際し、又はその連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引についての契約の解除を妨げるため、次に掲げる事項につき、故意に事実を告げず、又は不実のことを告げる行為

the type of goods (excluding rights to use a facility and to be provided with services; the same applies in item (iv)) and their performance or quality or the type of services, rights to use a facility, or rights to be provided with services, and the details of them; or

商品(施設を利用し及び役務の提供を受ける権利を除く。第四号において同じ。)の種類及びその性能若しくは品質又は施設を利用し若しくは役務の提供を受ける権利若しくは役務の種類及びこれらの内容

the general multilevel marketing distributor misrepresents the matters listed in (a) or (b) of the preceding item in soliciting a person to enter into a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected to the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by that orchestrator or in order to prevent the cancellation of a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the multilevel marketing undertaking;

一般連鎖販売業者が、その統括者の統括する一連の連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引についての契約の締結について勧誘をするに際し、又はその連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引についての契約の解除を妨げるため、前号イ又はロに掲げる事項につき、不実のことを告げる行為

the orchestrator, solicitor, or general multilevel marketing distributor uses intimidation to overwhelm a person in order to have the person enter into a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected to the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by the orchestrator or to prevent the person from canceling a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the multilevel marketing undertaking;

統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者が、その統括者の統括する一連の連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引についての契約を締結させ、又はその連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引についての契約の解除を妨げるため、威迫して困惑させる行為

the orchestrator, solicitor, or general multilevel marketing distributor, in advertising the multilevel marketing transactions connected with the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by that orchestrator, makes an indication of the performance or quality of the goods or of the rights to use a facility or to be provided with services or of the content of the services connected with the multilevel marketing undertaking, the specified burden involved in the multilevel marketing transactions or the specified profit involved in that multilevel marketing undertaking that differs significantly from the truth or misleads people into believing that the performance, quality, details or contents are significantly better or more advantageous than they are in reality; or

統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者が、その統括者の統括する一連の連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引について広告をするに際し、その連鎖販売業に係る商品の性能若しくは品質若しくは施設を利用し若しくは役務の提供を受ける権利若しくは役務の内容、当該連鎖販売取引に伴う特定負担又は当該連鎖販売業に係る特定利益について、著しく事実に相違する表示をし、又は実際のものよりも著しく優良であり、若しくは有利であると誤認させるような表示をする行為

the orchestrator, solicitor, or general multilevel marketing distributor solicits a person to enter into a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected to the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by that orchestrator, by providing conclusive evaluations that would likely cause a person to mistakenly believe that the multilevel marketing transactions connected with its multilevel marketing undertaking are sure to generate a profit.

統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者が、その統括者の統括する一連の連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引につき利益を生ずることが確実であると誤解させるべき断定的判断を提供してその連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引についての契約の締結について勧誘をする行為

If a solicitor has engaged in or is likely to engage in any of the conduct listed in item (i) or items (iii) through (v) of the preceding paragraph toward a large number of unspecified persons, a qualified consumer organization may demand that the solicitor discontinue or prevent the conduct, dispose of, or remove any object used for the conduct, or take any other necessary measures for discontinuing or preventing the conduct.

適格消費者団体は、勧誘者が、不特定かつ多数の者に対して前項第一号又は第三号から第五号までに掲げる行為を現に行い又は行うおそれがあるときは、その統括者に対し、当該行為の停止若しくは予防又は当該行為に供した物の廃棄若しくは除去その他の当該行為の停止若しくは予防に必要な措置をとることを請求することができる。

On the occasion of entering into a contracts involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the multilevel marketing undertaking, if an orchestrator, solicitor, or general multilevel marketing distributor has manifested or is likely to manifest the intention to offer to enter into or accept contracts between itself and a large number of unspecified persons, for contracts involving the multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the multilevel marketing undertaking that contain any of the following special provisions, a qualified consumer organization may demand that the orchestrator, solicitor, or general multilevel marketing distributor discontinue or prevent that conduct, dispose of, or remove any object used for that conduct, or take any other necessary measures for discontinuing or preventing that conduct:

適格消費者団体は、統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者が、その連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引についての契約を締結するに際し、不特定かつ多数の者との間で次に掲げる特約を含む連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引についての契約の申込み又はその承諾の意思表示を現に行い又は行うおそれがあるときは、それぞれその統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者に対し、当該行為の停止若しくは予防又は当該行為に供した物の廃棄若しくは除去その他の当該行為の停止若しくは予防に必要な措置をとることを請求することができる。

the special provisions prescribed in Article 40, paragraph (4); or

第四十条第四項に規定する特約

the special provisions prescribed in Article 40-2, paragraph (6).

第四十条の二第六項に規定する特約

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