# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の十七 (Article 35-17) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17. 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: 第三十五条の十七 (Article 35-17)（改善命令） — address `art-35-17` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条の十七（改善命令） — (Improvement Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17 **第一項** 経済産業大臣は、クレジットカード番号等取扱業者（前条第一項第二号に該当するものを除く。以下この条において同じ。）が講ずる前条第一項又は第三項に規定する措置がそれぞれ同条第一項又は第三項に規定する基準に適合していないと認めるときは、その必要の限度において、当該クレジットカード番号等取扱業者に対し、当該措置に係る業務の方法の変更その他必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-35-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17/par-1 If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds that the measures taken by a business that handles credit card numbers (excluding a person which falls under paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article; the same applies below in this Article) as prescribed in paragraph (1) or paragraph (3) of the preceding Article do not conform to the standards prescribed in paragraph (1) or paragraph (3) of that Article, the minister, within the scope that it is necessary, may order the business that handles credit card numbers to change the business method connected with those measures or to take any other necessary measures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-35-17/par-1: 前条第一項第二号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十六第一項第二号 (Article 35-16, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-35-16/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-16/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-16/par-1/item-2 - art-35-17/par-1: この条 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七 (Article 35-17), art-35-17 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17 - art-35-17/par-1: 前条第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十六第一項 (Article 35-16, paragraph (1)), art-35-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-16/par-1 - art-35-17/par-1: 第三項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十六第三項 (Article 35-16, paragraph (3)), art-35-16/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-16/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七第一項（改善命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十一条の六第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-51-6/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-6/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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