# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十四条 (Article 34) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-34. 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: 第三十四条 (Article 34)（改善命令） — address `art-34` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-34 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-34 - 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. --- ### 第三十四条（改善命令） — (Improvement Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-34 **第一項** 経済産業大臣は、登録包括信用購入あつせん業者が第三十三条の二第一項第十一号（認定包括信用購入あつせん業者にあつては、第三十条の二第一項本文に規定する調査に係る部分を除く。）の規定に該当することとなつたと認めるときは、その必要の限度において、当該登録包括信用購入あつせん業者に対し、包括信用購入あつせんに係る業務の運営を改善するため必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-34/par-1 If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds a registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary to have come to fall under the provisions of Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (xi) (excluding portions related to investigation stated in the main clause of paragraph (1) of Article 30-2, in the case of certified comprehensive credit purchase intermediaries), the minister, within the scope that it is necessary, may order the registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary to take the necessary measures to improve the business operations that are connected with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds a Registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary to have come to fall under the provisions of Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (ⅺ) (excluding portions related to investigation stated in the main clause of paragraph (1) of Article 30-2, in the case of certified comprehensive credit purchase intermediaries), the minister, within the scope that it is necessary, may order the registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary to take the necessary measures to improve the business operations that are connected with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb --- ## Cites - art-34/par-1: 第三十三条の二第一項第十一号 → 割賦販売法 第三十三条の二第一項第十一号 (Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (xi)), art-33-2/par-1/item-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-33-2/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-33-2/par-1/item-11 - art-34/par-1: 第三十条の二第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十条の二第一項 (Article 30-2, paragraph (1)), art-30-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-30-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十四条の二第二項第一号（登録の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-34-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-34-2/par-2/item-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の十四第二項第一号（登録の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-14/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-14/par-2/item-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十一条の五第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-51-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-5/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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 34, 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