# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の三の三十九 (Article 35-3-39) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-39. 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: 第三十五条の三の三十九 (Article 35-3-39)（秘密保持義務） — address `art-35-3-39` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-39 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-39 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条の三の三十九（秘密保持義務） — (Duty of Confidentiality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35-3-39 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-39 **第一項** 指定信用情報機関の役員若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、特定信用情報提供等業務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らし、又は盗用してはならない。 art-35-3-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-39/par-1 It is prohibited for the officer or employee of a designated credit bureau or a person that has held one of these positions to divulge or misappropriate confidential information learned in connection with specified credit information services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の四十七第四項（指定信用情報機関の情報提供） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-47/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-47/par-4 - 割賦販売法 第五十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-50/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50/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