# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の二十二 (Article 35-22) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-22. 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: 第三十五条の二十二 (Article 35-22)（役職員の秘密保持義務等） — address `art-35-22` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-22 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条の二十二（役職員の秘密保持義務等） — (Duty of Confidentiality of the Officers and Employees) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-22 **第一項** 認定割賦販売協会の役員若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、その職務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らし、又は盗用してはならない。 art-35-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-22/par-1 It is prohibited for the officer or employee of a certified installment sales association or a person that has held one of these positions to divulge or misappropriate confidential information learned in the course of duty. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 認定割賦販売協会の役員若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、その職務に関して知り得た秘密を、認定業務の用に供する目的以外に利用してはならない。 art-35-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-22/par-2 It is prohibited for the officer or employee of a certified installment sales association or a person that has held one of these positions to use confidential information learned in the course of duty for a purpose other than use in the certified services for which that information is provided. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第五十一条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-51-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-4/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