# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第五十三条の二 (Article 53-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53-2. 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: 第五十三条の二 (Article 53-2) — address `art-53-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-53-2 - 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. --- ### 第五十三条の二 art-53-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-53-2 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした許可割賦販売業者、登録包括信用購入あつせん業者、登録少額包括信用購入あつせん業者、登録個別信用購入あつせん業者、指定信用情報機関、第三十五条の三の六十一の許可を受けた者、指定受託機関又はクレジットカード番号等取扱契約締結事業者の代表者、管理人、代理人、使用人その他の従業者は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-53-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-53-2/par-1 In a case that falls under one of the following items, the violating representative, administrator, agent, employee, or other worker of a licensed installment seller, registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, registered comprehensive small amount credit purchase intermediary, registered individual credit purchase intermediary, designated credit bureau, person that has obtained the license referred to in Article 35-3-61, designated entrusted institution or a business that has a contract for handling credit card numbers, is subject to punishment by a fine of not more than 300,000 yen: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第十九条第一項若しくは第二項（第三十五条の三の六十二において準用する場合を含む。）、第三十三条の三第一項、第三十五条の二の十三第一項、第三十五条の三の二十八第一項、第三十五条の三の五十第一項、第三十五条の六、第三十五条の七第一項、第三十五条の八第二項又は第三十五条の十七の六第一項の規定による届出をせず、又は虚偽の届出をしたとき。 art-53-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-53-2/par-1/item-1 the person fails to file a notification under the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35-3-62); Article 33-3, paragraph (1); Article 35-2-13, paragraph (1); Article 35-3-28, paragraph (1); Article 35-3-50, paragraph (1); Article 35-6; Article 35-7, paragraph (1); Article 35-8, paragraph (2) or Article 35-17-6, paragraph (1), or files a false notification; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第三十五条の三の五十三第二項の規定による届出をせず、若しくは虚偽の届出をし、又は同項の規定による通知をせず、若しくは虚偽の報告をしたとき。 art-53-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-53-2/par-1/item-2 the person fails to file a notification under the provisions of Article 35-3-53, paragraph (2), files a false notification, fails to notify as under the same provisions, or makes a false report. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-53-2/par-1: 第三十五条の三の六十一 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の六十一 (Article 35-3-61), art-35-3-61 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-61 - art-53-2/par-1/item-1: 第十九条第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-1 - art-53-2/par-1/item-1: 第二項 → 割賦販売法 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-2 - art-53-2/par-1/item-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-53-2/par-1/item-1: 第三十三条の三第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十三条の三第一項 (Article 33-3, paragraph (1)), art-33-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-33-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-33-3/par-1 - art-53-2/par-1/item-1: 第三十五条の二の十三第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の十三第一項 (Article 35-2-13, paragraph (1)), art-35-2-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-13/par-1 - art-53-2/par-1/item-1: 第三十五条の三の二十八第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の二十八第一項 (Article 35-3-28, paragraph (1)), art-35-3-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-28/par-1 - art-53-2/par-1/item-1: 第三十五条の三の五十第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の五十第一項 (Article 35-3-50, paragraph (1)), art-35-3-50/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-50/par-1 - art-53-2/par-1/item-1: 第三十五条の六 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の六 (Article 35-6), art-35-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-6 - art-53-2/par-1/item-1: 第三十五条の七第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の七第一項 (Article 35-7, paragraph (1)), art-35-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-7/par-1 - art-53-2/par-1/item-1: 第三十五条の八第二項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の八第二項 (Article 35-8, paragraph (2)), art-35-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-8/par-2 - art-53-2/par-1/item-1: 第三十五条の十七の六第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の六第一項 (Article 35-17-6, paragraph (1)), art-35-17-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-6/par-1 - art-53-2/par-1/item-2: 第三十五条の三の五十三第二項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の五十三第二項 (Article 35-3-53, paragraph (2)), art-35-3-53/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-53/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第五十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-54/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