# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の十七の二 (Article 35-17-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-2. 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: 第三十五条の十七の二 (Article 35-17-2)（クレジットカード番号等取扱契約締結事業者の登録） — address `art-35-17-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十五条の十七の二（クレジットカード番号等取扱契約締結事業者の登録） — (Registration of a Business That Has a Contract for Handling Credit Card Numbers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-2 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、経済産業省に備えるクレジットカード番号等取扱契約締結事業者登録簿に登録を受けなければならない。 art-35-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-2/par-1 A person that falls under any of the following items must be registered in the business that has a contract for handling credit card numbers register maintained at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** クレジットカード等購入あつせんに係る販売又は提供の方法により商品若しくは権利を販売し、又は役務を提供しようとする販売業者又は役務提供事業者に対して、自ら利用者に付与するクレジットカード番号等を取り扱うことを認める契約を当該販売業者又は当該役務提供事業者との間で締結することを業とするクレジットカード等購入あつせん業者 art-35-17-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-2/par-1/item-1 a credit card purchase intermediary who is in the business of making a contract with a seller or service provider who seeks to sell goods or rights or to provide services in a way that involves intermediation of a credit card purchase that authorizes the handling of credit card numbers issued to a user by that credit card purchase intermediary; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a credit card purchase intermediary who is in the business of making a contract with a seller or service provider who seeks to sell goods or rights or to provide services in a way that involves intermediation of a credit card purchase that authorizes the handling of credit card numbers issued to a user by that seller or service provider;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb **二** 特定のクレジットカード等購入あつせん業者のために、クレジットカード等購入あつせんに係る販売又は提供の方法により商品若しくは権利を販売し、又は役務を提供しようとする販売業者又は役務提供事業者に対して、当該クレジットカード等購入あつせん業者が利用者に付与するクレジットカード番号等を取り扱うことを認める契約を当該販売業者又は当該役務提供事業者との間で締結することを業とする者 art-35-17-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-2/par-1/item-2 a person that is in the business of making a contract, for a specific credit card purchase intermediary, with a seller or service provider who seeks to sell goods or rights or to provide services in a way that involves the intermediation of a credit card purchase that authorizes the handling of credit card numbers issued to a user by that credit card purchase intermediary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十六第一項第二号（クレジットカード番号等の適切な管理） — 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 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の三第一項（登録の申請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-3/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の四第二項（登録及びその通知） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-4/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の五第一項第五号ニ（登録の拒否） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-5/par-1/item-5/sub-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-5/par-1/item-5/sub-4 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の五第一項第八号（登録の拒否） — 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 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の十一第一項第二号（登録の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-11/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-11/par-1/item-2 - 割賦販売法 第四十九条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-49/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-49/par-1/item-6 - 割賦販売法 附則第八条第一項（クレジットカード番号等取扱契約締結事業者の登録に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/suppl-4281-99/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4281-99/art-8/par-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 35-17-2, paragraph (1), item (i) — 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