# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の三の三十一 (Article 35-3-31) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-31. 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: 第三十五条の三の三十一 (Article 35-3-31)（改善命令） — address `art-35-3-31` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条の三の三十一（改善命令） — (Improvement Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35-3-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-31 **第一項** 経済産業大臣は、登録個別信用購入あつせん業者が第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第九号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、当該登録個別信用購入あつせん業者に対し、個別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-35-3-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-31/par-1 If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry finds a registered individual credit purchase intermediary to fall under the provisions of Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1), item (ix), the minister, within the scope that it is necessary, may order the registered individual credit purchase intermediary to take the necessary measures for improving the business operations that are connected with the intermediation of individual credit purchases. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-35-3-31/par-1: 第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第九号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第九号 (Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1), item (ix)), art-35-3-26/par-1/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-26/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-26/par-1/item-9 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の三十二第二項第一号（登録の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-32/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-32/par-2/item-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十一条の五第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-51-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-5/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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