# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第四十四条 (Article 44) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-44. 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: 第四十四条 (Article 44)（審査請求の手続における意見の聴取） — address `art-44` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-44 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-44 - 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. --- ### 第四十四条（審査請求の手続における意見の聴取） — Hearing of Opinions in Proceedings for Requests for Review caption: machine translation, not official art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-44 **第一項** この法律又はこの法律に基づく命令の規定による処分又はその不作為についての審査請求に対する裁決は、行政不服審査法（平成二十六年法律第六十八号）第二十四条の規定により当該審査請求を却下する場合を除き、審査請求人に対し、相当な期間をおいて予告をした上、同法第十一条第二項に規定する審理員が公開による意見の聴取を行つた後にしなければならない。 art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-44/par-1 An administrative determination on a request for review of a disposition under the provisions of this Act or an order based on this Act, or of inaction in relation to such a disposition, must be reached, except where the request for review is dismissed pursuant to the provisions of Article 24 of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014), after a public hearing of opinions has been held by the review officer prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (2) of that Act, with the requestor for review having been notified of this a reasonable amount of time in advance. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第四十二条第三項の規定は、前項の意見の聴取に準用する。この場合において、同条第三項中「当該処分に係る者」とあるのは、「審査請求人」と読み替えるものとする。 art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-44/par-2 The provisions of Article 42, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the hearing of opinions referred to in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "the person that could become subject to the disposition" in Article 42, paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "the requestor for review". machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項に規定する審査請求については、行政不服審査法第三十一条の規定は適用せず、同項の意見の聴取については、同条第二項から第五項までの規定を準用する。 art-44/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-44/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-44/par-3 With regard to the request for review prescribed in paragraph (1), the provisions of Article 31 of the Administrative Complaint Review Act do not apply, and the provisions of Article 31, paragraphs (2) through (5) of that Act apply mutatis mutandis to the hearing of opinions referred to in paragraph (1). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-44/par-1: 行政不服審査法（平成二十六年法律第六十八号）第二十四条 → 行政不服審査法 第二十四条 (Article 24), art-24 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-24 - art-44/par-1: 同法第十一条第二項 → 行政不服審査法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-11/par-2 - art-44/par-2: 第四十二条第三項 → 割賦販売法 第四十二条第三項 (Article 42, paragraph (3)), art-42/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-42/par-3 - art-44/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第四十四条第一項 (Article 44, paragraph (1)), art-44/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-44/par-1 - art-44/par-3: 第一項 → 割賦販売法 第四十四条第一項 (Article 44, paragraph (1)), art-44/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-44/par-1 - art-44/par-3: 行政不服審査法第三十一条 → 行政不服審査法 第三十一条 (Article 31), art-31 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-31 - art-44/par-3: 同条第二項から第五項まで → 行政不服審査法 第三十一条第二項 (Article 31, paragraph (2)), art-31/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-31/par-2 - art-44/par-3: 同条第二項から第五項まで → 行政不服審査法 第三十一条第三項 (Article 31, paragraph (3)), art-31/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-31/par-3 - art-44/par-3: 同条第二項から第五項まで → 行政不服審査法 第三十一条第四項 (Article 31, paragraph (4)), art-31/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-31/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-31/par-4 - art-44/par-3: 同条第二項から第五項まで → 行政不服審査法 第三十一条第五項 (Article 31, paragraph (5)), art-31/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-31/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-31/par-5 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第四十四条第二項（審査請求の手続における意見の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-44/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第四十四条第三項（審査請求の手続における意見の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-44/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-44/par-3 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch installment-sales-act-20261102T230407-001, translated 2026-11-03 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch installment-sales-act-20261102T230407-001, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 222 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02