# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の三の五十九 (Article 35-3-59) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-59. 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: 第三十五条の三の五十九 (Article 35-3-59)（目的外使用等の禁止） — address `art-35-3-59` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-59 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条の三の五十九（目的外使用等の禁止） — (Prohibition on Use for Other Purposes) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35-3-59 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-59 **第一項** 加入包括信用購入あつせん業者若しくは加入個別信用購入あつせん業者又はこれらの役員若しくは職員は、支払能力調査以外の目的のために加入指定信用情報機関に特定信用情報の提供の依頼（当該利用者又は購入者若しくは役務の提供を受ける者に係る他の指定信用情報機関が保有する基礎特定信用情報の提供の依頼を含む。）をし、又は加入指定信用情報機関から提供を受けた特定信用情報を支払能力調査以外の目的に使用し、若しくは第三者に提供してはならない。 art-35-3-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-59/par-1 It is prohibited for a participating comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, a participating individual credit purchase intermediary, or the officer or employee of either of these, to request the participating designated credit bureau with which it is affiliated to provide it with specified credit information for purposes other than an investigation into the ability to pay (this includes a request to provide it with the basic specified credit information on a user, purchaser, or service recipient, which another designated credit bureau holds), for that person to use specified credit information received from the participating designated credit bureau with which it is affiliated for purposes other than an investigation into the ability to pay, or for it to provide the information to a third party. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "It is prohibited for a participating comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, a participating individual credit purchase intermediary, or the officer or employee of either of these, to request the participating designated credit bureau with which it is affiliated to provide it with specified credit information for purposes other than an investigation into the ability to pay (this includes a request to provide it with the basic specified credit information on a user, purchaser, or service recipient, which another designated credit bureau holds), for that person to use specified credit information received from the participating designated credit bureau with which it is affiliated for purposes other than an investigation into the ability to pay, or for it provide the information to a third party." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb **第二項** 加入包括信用購入あつせん業者若しくは加入個別信用購入あつせん業者又はこれらの役員若しくは職員は、加入指定信用情報機関から提供を受けた特定信用情報について、これらの者に該当しなくなつた後において、当該特定信用情報を使用し、又は第三者に提供してはならない。 art-35-3-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-59/par-2 Once a person is no longer a participating comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, a participating individual credit purchase intermediary, or the officer or employee of either of these, it is prohibited for that person to use specified credit information received from a participating designated credit bureau with which it was affiliated, or to provide that information to a third party. 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 第三十条の五の三第一項（改善命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-30-5-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-5-3/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十条の六第一項（改善命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-30-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-6/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十四条の二第二項第一号（登録の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-34-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-34-2/par-2/item-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の八第一項（改善命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-8/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の二十一第一項（改善命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-21/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の四十六第一項（加入包括信用購入あつせん業者及び加入個別信用購入あつせん業者に対する監督） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-46/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50/par-1/item-2 - 割賦販売法 第五十条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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 35-3-59, 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