# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十九条の三 (Article 39-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-39-3. 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: 第三十九条の三 (Article 39-3)（経済産業大臣への意見） — address `art-39-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-39-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-39-3 - 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. --- ### 第三十九条の三（経済産業大臣への意見） — (Opinions for the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-39-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-39-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-39-3 **第一項** 警察庁長官は、登録包括信用購入あつせん業者、登録少額包括信用購入あつせん業者、登録個別信用購入あつせん業者又はクレジットカード番号等取扱契約締結事業者について、第三十三条の二第一項第七号ホ、第八号若しくは第九号、第三十五条の二の十一第一項第六号ホ、第七号若しくは第八号、第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第五号ホ、第六号若しくは第七号又は第三十五条の十七の五第一項第五号ホ、第六号若しくは第七号に該当する事由があると疑うに足りる相当な理由があるため、経済産業大臣が当該登録包括信用購入あつせん業者、当該登録少額包括信用購入あつせん業者、当該登録個別信用購入あつせん業者又は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て適当な措置をとることが必要であると認める場合には、経済産業大臣に対し、その旨の意見を述べることができる。 art-39-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-39-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-39-3/par-1 If there are reasonable grounds to suspect that a registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, registered comprehensive small amount credit purchase intermediary, registered individual credit purchase intermediary, or a business that has a contract for handling credit card numbers falls under Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (vii), (e), item (viii) or item (ix), Article 35-2-11, paragraph (1), item (vi), (e), item (vii) or item (viii), Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1), item (v), (e), item (vi) or item (vii), or Article 35-17-5, paragraph (1), item (v), (e), item (vi) or item (vii) due to which the Director-General of the National Police Agency finds it to be necessary for the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry to take appropriate measures with respect to the registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediary, the registered comprehensive small amount credit purchase intermediary, the registered individual credit purchase intermediary, or the business that has a contract for handling credit card numbers, the director-general may state an opinion indicating this to the minister. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-39-3/par-1: 第三十三条の二第一項第七号 → 割賦販売法 第三十三条の二第一項第七号 (Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-33-2/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-33-2/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-33-2/par-1/item-7 - art-39-3/par-1: 第八号 → 割賦販売法 第三十三条の二第一項第八号 (Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (viii)), art-33-2/par-1/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-33-2/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-33-2/par-1/item-8 - art-39-3/par-1: 第九号 → 割賦販売法 第三十三条の二第一項第九号 (Article 33-2, paragraph (1), item (ix)), art-33-2/par-1/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-33-2/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-33-2/par-1/item-9 - art-39-3/par-1: 第三十五条の二の十一第一項第六号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の十一第一項第六号 (Article 35-2-11, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-35-2-11/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-11/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-11/par-1/item-6 - art-39-3/par-1: 第七号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の十一第一項第七号 (Article 35-2-11, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-35-2-11/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-11/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-11/par-1/item-7 - art-39-3/par-1: 第八号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の十一第一項第八号 (Article 35-2-11, paragraph (1), item (viii)), art-35-2-11/par-1/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-11/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-11/par-1/item-8 - art-39-3/par-1: 第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第五号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第五号 (Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-35-3-26/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-26/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-26/par-1/item-5 - art-39-3/par-1: 第六号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第六号 (Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-35-3-26/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-26/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-26/par-1/item-6 - art-39-3/par-1: 第七号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の二十六第一項第七号 (Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-35-3-26/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-26/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-26/par-1/item-7 - art-39-3/par-1: 第三十五条の十七の五第一項第五号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の五第一項第五号 (Article 35-17-5, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-35-17-5/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-5/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-5/par-1/item-5 - art-39-3/par-1: 第六号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の五第一項第六号 (Article 35-17-5, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-35-17-5/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-5/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-5/par-1/item-6 - art-39-3/par-1: 第七号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の五第一項第七号 (Article 35-17-5, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-35-17-5/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-5/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-5/par-1/item-7 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch installment-sales-act-20261102T230407-001, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 222 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02