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Article 36-3Prohibition on Sending Email Advertising to a Person Who Has Not Given Consent

第三十六条の三(承諾をしていない者に対する電子メール広告の提供の禁止等)

Except in the following cases, an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor must not advertise multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by that orchestrator via email without the consent of the advertising target:

統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者は、次に掲げる場合を除き、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、その相手方となる者の承諾を得ないで電子メール広告をしてはならない。

when sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by that orchestrator (hereinafter referred to as "email advertising multilevel marketing transactions" in this Chapter) at the request of the advertising target; or

相手方となる者の請求に基づき、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係る電子メール広告(以下この章において「連鎖販売取引電子メール広告」という。)をするとき。

beyond what is provided in the preceding item, when sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions in cases specified by order of the competent ministry as cases that are found to be unlikely to prejudice the interests of the target of the email advertising multilevel marketing transactions.

前号に掲げるもののほか、通常連鎖販売取引電子メール広告の提供を受ける者の利益を損なうおそれがないと認められる場合として主務省令で定める場合において、連鎖販売取引電子メール広告をするとき。

An orchestrator, solicitor, or general multilevel marketing distributor that has obtained the consent prescribed in the preceding paragraph or that has received a request provided in item (i) of that paragraph must not send email advertising multilevel marketing transactions to an advertising target if the target of the email advertising multilevel marketing transactions indicates an unwillingness to receive email advertising multilevel marketing transactions; provided, however, that this does not apply if the orchestrator, the solicitor, or the general multilevel marketing distributor later receives a request from the advertising target or regains the consent of the advertising target to send email advertising multilevel marketing transactions.

前項に規定する承諾を得、又は同項第一号に規定する請求を受けた統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者は、当該連鎖販売取引電子メール広告の相手方から連鎖販売取引電子メール広告の提供を受けない旨の意思の表示を受けたときは、当該相手方に対し、連鎖販売取引電子メール広告をしてはならない。ただし、当該意思の表示を受けた後に再び連鎖販売取引電子メール広告をすることにつき当該相手方から請求を受け、又は当該相手方の承諾を得た場合には、この限りでない。

Except in the case stated in paragraph (1), item (ii), when sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor must prepare what is specified by order of the competent ministry as a record of having obtained the consent of the advertising target or having received a request from the advertising target to send email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, and must preserve the records pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry.

統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者は、連鎖販売取引電子メール広告をするときは、第一項第二号に掲げる場合を除き、当該連鎖販売取引電子メール広告をすることにつきその相手方の承諾を得、又はその相手方から請求を受けたことの記録として主務省令で定めるものを作成し、主務省令で定めるところによりこれを保存しなければならない。

Except in the case stated in paragraph (1), item (ii), when sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry, in its email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor must indicate information that is specified by order of the competent ministry as the information that an advertising target needs to have in order to indicate an unwillingness to receive email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, in addition to the matters listed in the items of Article 35.

統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者は、連鎖販売取引電子メール広告をするときは、第一項第二号に掲げる場合を除き、当該連鎖販売取引電子メール広告に、第三十五条各号に掲げる事項のほか、主務省令で定めるところにより、その相手方が連鎖販売取引電子メール広告の提供を受けない旨の意思の表示をするために必要な事項として主務省令で定めるものを表示しなければならない。

If an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor has comprehensively entrusted another person with all of the following business activities, the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply to any email advertising multilevel marketing transactions subject to that entrustment:

前二項の規定は、統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者が他の者に次に掲げる業務の全てにつき一括して委託しているときは、その委託に係る連鎖販売取引電子メール広告については、適用しない。

business activities for obtaining the consent of the advertising targets or receiving requests from advertising targets to send email advertising multilevel marketing transactions;

連鎖販売取引電子メール広告をすることにつきその相手方の承諾を得、又はその相手方から請求を受ける業務

business activities for preparing and preserving the records prescribed in paragraph (3); and

第三項に規定する記録を作成し、及び保存する業務

business activities for indicating the information an advertising target needs to have in order to indicate an unwillingness to receive email advertising multilevel marketing transactions, as prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

前項に規定する連鎖販売取引電子メール広告の提供を受けない旨の意思の表示をするために必要な事項を表示する業務

Article 36-4

第三十六条の四

Except in the following cases, a person comprehensively entrusted with all of the business activities listed in the items of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article by an orchestrator, a solicitor, or a general multilevel marketing distributor (a person so entrusted is hereinafter referred to as a "contractor sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions" in this Chapter and Article 66, paragraph (6) and Article 67, paragraph (1), item (iv)) must not send email advertising multilevel marketing transactions for multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by the orchestrator, that are carried out by the orchestrator, the solicitor, or the general multilevel marketing distributor that entrusted the contractor with those business activities (hereinafter referred to as the "party entrusting a contractor with email advertising its multilevel marketing transactions" in this Article), without the consent of the advertising target:

統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者から前条第五項各号に掲げる業務の全てにつき一括して委託を受けた者(以下この章並びに第六十六条第六項及び第六十七条第一項第四号において「連鎖販売取引電子メール広告受託事業者」という。)は、次に掲げる場合を除き、当該業務を委託した統括者、勧誘者又は一般連鎖販売業者(以下この条において「連鎖販売取引電子メール広告委託者」という。)が行う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、その相手方となる者の承諾を得ないで連鎖販売取引電子メール広告をしてはならない。

when sending email advertising the multilevel marketing transactions of a party entrusting a contractor with email advertising its multilevel marketing transactions at the request of the advertising target; and

相手方となる者の請求に基づき、連鎖販売取引電子メール広告委託者に係る連鎖販売取引電子メール広告をするとき。

beyond what is stated in the preceding item, when sending email advertising the multilevel marketing transactions of a party entrusting a contractor with email advertising its multilevel marketing transactions in cases specified by order of the competent ministry as cases that are found to be unlikely to prejudice the interests of the target of the email advertising the multilevel marketing transactions of the party entrusting a contractor with email advertising its multilevel marketing transactions.

前号に掲げるもののほか、通常連鎖販売取引電子メール広告委託者に係る連鎖販売取引電子メール広告の提供を受ける者の利益を損なうおそれがないと認められる場合として主務省令で定める場合において、連鎖販売取引電子メール広告委託者に係る連鎖販売取引電子メール広告をするとき。

Article 37Delivery of Documents in Multilevel Marketing Transactions

第三十七条(連鎖販売取引における書面の交付)

When a person carrying on a multilevel marketing undertaking (if a person other than a person carrying on a multilevel marketing undertaking will enter into a contract concerning the specified burden involved in multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with that multilevel marketing undertaking, the person entering into the contract; the same applies in paragraph (3)) seeks to enter into a contract concerning the specified burden involved in multilevel marketing transactions with a person seeking to bear that specified burden (limited to an individual who will sell or arrange the sale of goods associated with that multilevel marketing undertaking or will provide or arrange for providing services associated with its multilevel marketing undertaking, without using a store or similar facility), the person carrying on that multilevel marketing undertaking must deliver to that person a document containing an outline of its multilevel marketing undertaking pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry before entering into that contract.

連鎖販売業を行う者(連鎖販売業を行う者以外の者がその連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引に伴う特定負担についての契約を締結する者であるときは、その者。第三項において同じ。)は、連鎖販売取引に伴う特定負担をしようとする者(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に限る。)とその特定負担についての契約を締結しようとするときは、その契約を締結するまでに、主務省令で定めるところにより、その連鎖販売業の概要について記載した書面をその者に交付しなければならない。

If a person carrying on a multilevel marketing undertaking has entered into a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected with the person's multilevel marketing undertaking (hereinafter referred to as a "multilevel marketing contract" in this Chapter), and the counterparty to the multilevel marketing contract is an individual who sells or arranges the sale of goods associated with that multilevel marketing undertaking or provides or arranges for providing services associated with that multilevel marketing undertaking without using a store or similar facility, the person engaged in multilevel marketing must deliver to that person a document containing the details of that multilevel marketing contract with respect to the following information without delay, pursuant to the provisions of order of the competent ministry:

連鎖販売業を行う者は、その連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売取引についての契約(以下この章において「連鎖販売契約」という。)を締結した場合において、その連鎖販売契約の相手方が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であるときは、遅滞なく、主務省令で定めるところにより、次の事項についてその連鎖販売契約の内容を明らかにする書面をその者に交付しなければならない。

the type of goods (excluding rights to use a facility or to be provided with services) 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;

商品(施設を利用し及び役務の提供を受ける権利を除く。)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に関する事項

information about conditions for reselling, selling on consignment, or arranging the sale of the goods, or about providing the same type of services or arranging for those services to be provided;

商品の再販売、受託販売若しくは販売のあつせん又は同種役務の提供若しくは役務の提供のあつせんについての条件に関する事項

information about the specified burden involved in the multilevel marketing transactions;

当該連鎖販売取引に伴う特定負担に関する事項

information about canceling the multilevel marketing contract (including information related to the provisions of Article 40, paragraphs (1) through (3) and Article 40-2, paragraphs (1) through (5)); and

当該連鎖販売契約の解除に関する事項(第四十条第一項から第三項まで及び第四十条の二第一項から第五項までの規定に関する事項を含む。)

information specified by order of the competent ministry, beyond what is stated in the preceding items.

前各号に掲げるもののほか、主務省令で定める事項

In place of the delivery in writing under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, a person engaged in multilevel marketing may provide the information that should be described in the documents by an electronic or magnetic means, after gaining the consent of a person who seeks to execute the specified burden involved in the multilevel marketing transactions or a counterparty to the multilevel marketing contract, pursuant to Cabinet Order. In this case, the person engaged in the multilevel marketing is deemed to have delivered the documents.

連鎖販売業を行う者は、前二項の規定による書面の交付に代えて、政令で定めるところにより、当該連鎖販売取引に伴う特定負担をしようとする者又は当該連鎖販売契約の相手方の承諾を得て、当該書面に記載すべき事項を電磁的方法により提供することができる。この場合において、当該連鎖販売業を行う者は、当該書面を交付したものとみなす。

The provision of information that is to be described in documents under paragraph (2) as specified in the first sentence of the previous paragraph through electronic or magnetic means (excluding means specified by ordinance of the competent ministry) is deemed to have been made to the counterparty to the multilevel marketing contract when the information is recorded in a file stored on the computer used by the counterparty to the multilevel marketing contract.

前項前段の規定による第二項の書面に記載すべき事項の電磁的方法(主務省令で定める方法を除く。)による提供は、当該連鎖販売契約の相手方の使用に係る電子計算機に備えられたファイルへの記録がされた時に当該連鎖販売契約の相手方に到達したものとみなす。

Article 38Instructions

第三十八条(指示等)

If an orchestrator has violated any of the provisions of Article 33-2, Article 34, paragraph (1), (3), or (4), Article 35, Article 36, Article 36-3 (excluding paragraph (5)), or Article 37, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) or has engaged in any of the following conduct, or if a solicitor has violated any of the provisions of Article 33-2, Article 34, paragraph (1), (3), or (4), Article 35, Article 36, or Article 36-3 (excluding paragraph (5)) or has engaged in any of the conduct listed in items (ii) through (iv) of this paragraph, and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to prejudice the fairness of multilevel marketing transactions and the interests of the counterparty to them, the minister may instruct the orchestrator to take measures for correcting the violation or conduct, measures for protecting the interests of the counterparty to the multilevel marketing transactions, or any other necessary measures:

主務大臣は、統括者が第三十三条の二、第三十四条第一項、第三項若しくは第四項、第三十五条、第三十六条、第三十六条の三(第五項を除く。)若しくは前条第一項若しくは第二項の規定に違反し若しくは次に掲げる行為をした場合又は勧誘者が第三十三条の二、第三十四条第一項、第三項若しくは第四項、第三十五条、第三十六条若しくは第三十六条の三(第五項を除く。)の規定に違反し若しくは第二号から第四号までに掲げる行為をした場合において連鎖販売取引の公正及び連鎖販売取引の相手方の利益が害されるおそれがあると認めるときは、その統括者に対し、当該違反又は当該行為の是正のための措置、連鎖販売取引の相手方の利益の保護を図るための措置その他の必要な措置をとるべきことを指示することができる。

refusing to perform or unjustifiably delaying the performance of the obligations under a multilevel marketing contract connected with multilevel marketing or the obligations that occur through the cancellation of the contract in whole or in part;

その連鎖販売業に係る連鎖販売契約に基づく債務又はその解除によつて生ずる債務の全部又は一部の履行を拒否し、又は不当に遅延させること。

soliciting a person's entry into a multilevel marketing contract connected with a multilevel marketing undertaking (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 for providing services associated with that multilevel marketing undertaking, without using a store or similar facility; hereinafter the same applies in the following item) by providing conclusive evaluations that would likely cause a person to mistakenly believe that the multilevel marketing transactions connected with the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by the orchestrator are sure to generate a profit;

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。次号において同じ。)の締結について勧誘をすること。

soliciting a person who has indicated an unwillingness to enter into a multilevel marketing contract connected with the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by the orchestrator to enter into the contract, in a way that the person feels is a nuisance; or

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契約を締結しない旨の意思を表示している者に対し、当該連鎖販売契約の締結について迷惑を覚えさせるような仕方で勧誘をすること。

beyond what is stated in the preceding three items, conduct that is carried out in connection with a multilevel marketing contract connected with the set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by a orchestrator, and that is specified by order of the competent ministry as being likely to prejudice the fairness of multilevel marketing transactions and the interests of the counterparty.

前三号に掲げるもののほか、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契約に関する行為であつて、連鎖販売取引の公正及び連鎖販売取引の相手方の利益を害するおそれがあるものとして主務省令で定めるもの

If a solicitor has violated any of the provisions of Article 33-2, Article 34, paragraph (1), (3), or (4), Article 35, Article 36, Article 36-3 (excluding paragraph (5)), or Article 37, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) or has engaged in any of the conduct listed in the items of the preceding paragraph, and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to prejudice the fairness of multilevel marketing transactions and the interests of the counterparty to them, the minister may instruct the solicitor to take measures for correcting the violation or conduct, measures for protecting the interests of the counterparty to multilevel marketing transactions, and any other necessary measures.

主務大臣は、勧誘者が第三十三条の二、第三十四条第一項、第三項若しくは第四項、第三十五条、第三十六条、第三十六条の三(第五項を除く。)若しくは前条第一項若しくは第二項の規定に違反し、又は前項各号に掲げる行為をした場合において連鎖販売取引の公正及び連鎖販売取引の相手方の利益が害されるおそれがあると認めるときは、その勧誘者に対し、当該違反又は当該行為の是正のための措置、連鎖販売取引の相手方の利益の保護を図るための措置その他の必要な措置をとるべきことを指示することができる。

If a general multilevel marketing distributor has violated any of the provisions of Article 33-2, Article 34, paragraphs (2) through (4), Article 35, Article 36, Article 36-3 (excluding paragraph (5)), or Article 37, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) or has engaged in any of the conduct listed in the following items, and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to prejudice the fairness of multilevel marketing transactions and the interests of the counterparty to them, the minister may instruct the general multilevel marketing distributor to take measures for correcting the violation or conduct, measures for protecting the interests of the counterparty to multilevel marketing transactions, or any other necessary measures:

主務大臣は、一般連鎖販売業者が第三十三条の二、第三十四条第二項から第四項まで、第三十五条、第三十六条、第三十六条の三(第五項を除く。)若しくは前条第一項若しくは第二項の規定に違反し、又は次に掲げる行為をした場合において連鎖販売取引の公正及び連鎖販売取引の相手方の利益が害されるおそれがあると認めるときは、その一般連鎖販売業者に対し、当該違反又は当該行為の是正のための措置、連鎖販売取引の相手方の利益の保護を図るための措置その他の必要な措置をとるべきことを指示することができる。

conduct stated in the items of paragraph (1); or

第一項各号に掲げる行為

intentionally failing to disclose any material information about its multilevel marketing undertaking that would affect the decision of the other party, either in soliciting a person to enter into a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected to a set of related multilevel marketing undertakings orchestrated by an orchestrator or in order to prevent the cancellation of a contract involving multilevel marketing transactions that are connected to the multilevel marketing undertaking.

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、その連鎖販売業に関する事項であつて、連鎖販売取引の相手方の判断に影響を及ぼすこととなる重要なものにつき、故意に事実を告げないこと。

If a contractor sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions has violated any of the provisions of Article 36-4, paragraph (1) or Article 36-3, paragraphs (2) through (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 36-4, paragraph (2), and the competent minister finds that the conduct is likely to prejudice the fairness of multilevel marketing transactions and the interests of the counterparty to them, the minister may instruct the contractor sending email advertising multilevel marketing transactions to take any necessary measures.

主務大臣は、連鎖販売取引電子メール広告受託事業者が第三十六条の四第一項又は同条第二項において準用する第三十六条の三第二項から第四項までの規定に違反した場合において、連鎖販売取引の公正及び連鎖販売取引の相手方の利益が害されるおそれがあると認めるときは、その連鎖販売取引電子メール広告受託事業者に対し、必要な措置をとるべきことを指示することができる。

Having given an instruction under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3), the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.

主務大臣は、第一項から第三項までの規定による指示をしたときは、その旨を公表しなければならない。

Having given an instruction under the provisions of paragraph (4), the competent minister must issue a public announcement to that effect.

主務大臣は、第四項の規定による指示をしたときは、その旨を公表しなければならない。

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