# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-31. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 割賦販売法 (Installment Sales Act), 昭和三十六年法律第百五十九号 - English title "Installment Sales Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（包括信用購入あつせん業者の登録） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-31 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十一条（包括信用購入あつせん業者の登録） — (Registration of Comprehensive Credit Purchase Intermediaries) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-31 **第一項** 包括信用購入あつせんは、経済産業省に備える包括信用購入あつせん業者登録簿に登録を受けた法人（以下「登録包括信用購入あつせん業者」という。）でなければ、業として営んではならない。ただし、第三十五条の三の六十第一項第四号の団体については、この限りでない。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-31/par-1 It is prohibited for a person other than a corporation that is registered in the comprehensive credit purchase intermediary register maintained at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (referred to below as a "registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary") to engage in the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases in the course of trade; provided, however, that this does not apply to an organization as referred to in Article 35-3-60, paragraph (1), item (iv). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-31/par-1: 第三十五条の三の六十第一項第四号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の六十第一項第四号 (Article 35-3-60, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-35-3-60/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-60/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-60/par-1/item-4 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十二条第一項（登録の申請） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-32/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十三条第二項（登録及びその通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-33/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第三十四条の二第一項第二号（登録の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-34-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-34-2/par-1/item-2 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の三第一項（登録） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-3/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の十五第一項第一号（登録の消除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-15/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-15/par-1/item-1 - 割賦販売法 第四十九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-49/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-49/par-1/item-2 - 割賦販売法 附則第八項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3591-49/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3591-49/par-8 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 割賦販売法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000159/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Installment Sales Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02