# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十七条 (Article 37) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-37. 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37)（カード等の譲受け等の禁止） — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条（カード等の譲受け等の禁止） — (Prohibition on Accepting the Assignment of a Card) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-37 **第一項** 何人も、業として、カード等（第二条第一項第二号のカードその他の物及び同条第三項第一号のカードその他の物をいう。以下この条及び第五十一条の三において同じ。）を譲り受け、又は資金の融通に関してカード等の提供を受けてはならない。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-37/par-1 It is prohibited for any person, in the course of trade, to accept the assignment of a card, etc. (meaning a card or other object as referred to in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) or a card or other object as referred to in paragraph (3), item (i) of that Article; the same applies below in this Article and Article 51-3), or to acquire a card, etc. in connection with the lending of funds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-37/par-1: 第二条第一項第二号 → 割賦販売法 第二条第一項第二号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-1/item-2 - art-37/par-1: 同条第三項第一号 → 割賦販売法 第二条第三項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-2/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-3/item-1 - art-37/par-1: この条 → 割賦販売法 第三十七条 (Article 37), art-37 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-37 - art-37/par-1: 第五十一条の三 → 割賦販売法 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3), art-51-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十七条第一項（カード等の譲受け等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-37/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十一条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-3/par-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