# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の三の三十八 (Article 35-3-38) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-38. 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: 第三十五条の三の三十八 (Article 35-3-38)（指定信用情報機関の役員の兼職の制限） — address `art-35-3-38` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-38 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条の三の三十八（指定信用情報機関の役員の兼職の制限） — (Restriction on the Concurrent Holding of Positions by the Officers of a Designated Credit Bureau) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35-3-38 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-38 **第一項** 指定信用情報機関の代表者及び常務に従事する役員は、経済産業大臣の認可を受けた場合を除くほか、包括信用購入あつせん業者又は個別信用購入あつせん業者その他の経済産業省令で定める法人の代表者となり、若しくは常務に従事し、又は貸金業法第二条第一項に規定する貸金業その他の経済産業省令で定める事業を営んではならない。 art-35-3-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-38/par-1 Unless the representative of a designated credit bureau or an officer engaging in its day-to-day business operations obtains the authorization of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry to do so, it is prohibited for that representative or officer to become the representative of a comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, individual credit purchase intermediary, or other corporation specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry or to engage in its day-to-day business operations, and it is prohibited for that representative or officer to engage in the money lending business prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Money Lending Business Act or any other businesses specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-35-3-38/par-1: 貸金業法第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 358AC1000000032, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第五十五条の二第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-55-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-55-2/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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 222 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02