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