With the consent of the user, purchaser, or service recipient and pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, in lieu of delivering a document under the provisions of paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) of Article 3 or the paragraphs of the preceding Article, an installment seller may provide the user, purchaser, or service recipient with the matters that are required to be stated in the document by a means that makes use of an electronic data processing system, or by any other means specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Cabinet Office Order which uses information and communications technology (referred to below as an "electronic or magnetic means"). In doing so, the installment seller is deemed to have delivered the relevant document.
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installment seller
「割賦販売業者」
A person whose business is installment sales (割賦販売).
Short name set inArticle 3, paragraph (1)
electronic or magnetic means
「電磁的方法」
A way of providing information by an electronic data processing system or other information and communications technology, of a kind an Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Cabinet Office Order (経済産業省令・内閣府令) specifies, which a business may use with the customer's consent instead of handing over a document.
Short name set inArticle 4-2, paragraph (1)