# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の十七の十 (Article 35-17-10) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-10. 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: 第三十五条の十七の十 (Article 35-17-10)（改善命令） — address `art-35-17-10` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-10 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十五条の十七の十（改善命令） — (Improvement Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35-17-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-10 **第一項** 経済産業大臣は、クレジットカード番号等取扱契約締結事業者が第三十五条の十七の五第一項第八号の規定に該当することとなつたと認めるとき、又は前二条の規定に違反していると認めるときは、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契約締結事業者に対し、クレジットカード番号等取扱契約の締結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-35-17-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-10/par-1 When the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds that a business that has a contract for handling credit card numbers falls under the provisions of Article 35-17-5, paragraph (1), item (viii), or when it finds that the party violates the provisions of the preceding two Articles, it may order the business that has a contract for handling credit card numbers, within the scope that it is necessary, to take necessary measures to improve the operations of the business related to making a contract for handling credit card numbers. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds that a business that has a contract for handling credit card numbers falls under the provisions of Article 35-17-5, paragraph (1), item (viii), or when it finds that the party violates the provisions of preceding two Articles, it may order the business that has a contract for handling credit card numbers, within the scope that it is necessary, to take necessary measures to improve the operations of the business related to making a contract for handling credit card numbers." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb --- ## Cites - art-35-17-10/par-1: 第三十五条の十七の五第一項第八号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の五第一項第八号 (Article 35-17-5, paragraph (1), item (viii)), art-35-17-5/par-1/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-5/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-5/par-1/item-8 - art-35-17-10/par-1: 前二条 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の八 (Article 35-17-8), art-35-17-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-8 - art-35-17-10/par-1: 前二条 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の九 (Article 35-17-9), art-35-17-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-9 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の十一第二項第一号（登録の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-11/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-11/par-2/item-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十一条の五第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-51-5/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-5/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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 35-17-10, 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