# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十六条 (Article 36) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-36. 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: 第三十六条 (Article 36)（消費経済審議会及び消費者委員会への諮問） — address `art-36` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-36 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条（消費経済審議会及び消費者委員会への諮問） — (Advisory Consultations with the Consumer Economic Affairs Council and the Consumer Commission) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-36 **第一項** 主務大臣は、第七条、第十一条第一号、第十五条第一項第二号（第三十五条の三の六十二において準用する場合を含む。）、第三十三条の二第一項第三号、第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第二号、第三十五条の三の六十一第一号若しくは第四十条第十項（密接関係者の定めに係るものに限る。）に規定する政令の制定若しくは改廃の立案をし、又は第九条の割合若しくは期間を定めようとするときは、消費経済審議会に諮問しなければならない。 art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-36/par-1 Before proposing the enactment, amendment or repeal of Cabinet Order as prescribed in Article 7; Article 11, item (i); Article 15, paragraph (1), item (ii) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35-3-62); Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (iii); Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1), item (ii); Article 35-3-61, item (i); or Article 40, paragraph (10) (limited to those related to the provisions of closely related persons); or to specify the percentage or term referred to in Article 9, the competent minister must seek an advisory consultation with the Consumer Economic Affairs Council. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Before proposing the enactment, amendment or repeal of Cabinet Order as prescribed in Article 7; Article 11, item (i); Article 15, paragraph (1), item (ii) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35-3-62); Article 33-2, paragraph (1) item (ii); Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1), item (ii); Article 35-3-61, item (i); or Article 40, paragraph (10) (limited to those related to the provisions of closely related persons); or to specify the percentage or term referred to in Article 9, the competent minister must seek an advisory consultation with the Consumer Economic Affairs Council." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb **第二項** 主務大臣は、第二条第五項若しくは第六項、第三十条の四第四項、第三十条の五第二項又は第三十五条の三の十九第四項に規定する政令の制定又は改廃の立案をしようとするときは、政令で定めるところにより、消費経済審議会及び消費者委員会に諮問しなければならない。 art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-36/par-2 Before proposing the enactment, amendment or repeal of Cabinet Order as prescribed in paragraph (5) or paragraph (6) of Article 2; Article 30-4, paragraph (4); Article 30-5, paragraph (2); or Article 35-3-19, paragraph (4), the competent minister must seek an advisory consultation with the Consumer Economic Affairs Council and the Consumer Commission, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-36/par-1: 第七条 → 割賦販売法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-7 - art-36/par-1: 第十一条第一号 → 割賦販売法 第十一条第一項第一号 (Article 11, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-11/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-11/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-11/par-1/item-1 - art-36/par-1: 第十五条第一項第二号 → 割賦販売法 第十五条第一項第二号 (Article 15, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-15/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-15/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-15/par-1/item-2 - art-36/par-1: 第三十五条の三の六十二 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の六十二 (Article 35-3-62), art-35-3-62 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-62 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-62 - art-36/par-1: 第三十三条の二第一項第三号 → 割賦販売法 第三十三条の二第一項第三号 (Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-33-2/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-33-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-33-2/par-1/item-3 - art-36/par-1: 第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第二号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第二号 (Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-35-3-26/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-26/par-1/item-2 - art-36/par-1: 第三十五条の三の六十一第一号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の六十一第一項第一号 (Article 35-3-61, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-35-3-61/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-1 - art-36/par-1: 第四十条第十項 → 割賦販売法 第四十条第十項 (Article 40, paragraph (10)), art-40/par-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-40/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-40/par-10 - art-36/par-1: 第九条 → 割賦販売法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-9 - art-36/par-2: 第二条第五項 → 割賦販売法 第二条第五項 (Article 2, paragraph (5)), art-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-5 - art-36/par-2: 第六項 → 割賦販売法 第二条第六項 (Article 2, paragraph (6)), art-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-6 - art-36/par-2: 第三十条の四第四項 → 割賦販売法 第三十条の四第四項 (Article 30-4, paragraph (4)), art-30-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-4/par-4 - art-36/par-2: 第三十条の五第二項 → 割賦販売法 第三十条の五第二項 (Article 30-5, paragraph (2)), art-30-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-5/par-2 - art-36/par-2: 第三十五条の三の十九第四項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の十九第四項 (Article 35-3-19, paragraph (4)), art-35-3-19/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-19/par-4 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第四十六条第一項第四号（主務大臣） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-46/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-46/par-1/item-4 - 割賦販売法 第四十六条第一項第五号（主務大臣） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-46/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-46/par-1/item-5 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Installment Sales Act, written 2026-11-03 - 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 (割賦販売法), Article 36, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb), 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