# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-42. 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: 第四十二条 (Article 42)（意見の聴取） — address `art-42` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-42 - 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. --- ### 第四十二条（意見の聴取） — (Hearing of Opinions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-42 **第一項** 第三十三条の二第一項、第三十五条の二の十一第一項（第三十五条の二の十二第二項において準用する場合を含む。）、第三十五条の三の二十六第一項（第三十五条の三の二十七第二項において準用する場合を含む。）又は第三十五条の十七の五第一項の規定による処分をしようとするときは、当該処分に係る者に対し、相当な期間をおいて予告をした上、公開による意見の聴取を行わなければならない。 art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-42/par-1 Before seeking to reach a disposition under Article 33-2, paragraph (1), Article 35-2-11, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35-2-12, paragraph (2)), Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35-3-27, paragraph (2)), or Article 35-17-5, paragraph (1), a public hearing of opinions must be held, with the person that could become subject to the disposition having been notified of this a reasonable amount of time in advance. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Before the relevant person seeks to reach a disposition under Article 33-2, paragraph (1), Article 35-2-11, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35-2-12, paragraph (2)), Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35-3-27, paragraph (2)), or Article 35-17-5, paragraph (1), a public hearing of opinions must be held, with the person that could become subject to the disposition having been notified of this a reasonable amount of time in advance." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb **第二項** 前項の予告においては、期日、場所及び事案の内容を示さなければならない。 art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-42/par-2 The date, place, and content of the situation under review must be indicated in the advance notice referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の意見の聴取に際しては、当該処分に係る者及び利害関係人に対し、当該事案について証拠を提示し、意見を述べる機会を与えなければならない。 art-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-42/par-3 At the time of a hearing of opinions as referred to in paragraph (1), the person that could become subject to the disposition and other interested parties must be accorded the opportunity to present evidence and state an opinion with respect to the situation under review. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-42/par-1: 第三十三条の二第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十三条の二第一項 (Article 33-2, paragraph (1)), art-33-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-33-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-33-2/par-1 - art-42/par-1: 第三十五条の二の十一第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の十一第一項 (Article 35-2-11, paragraph (1)), art-35-2-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-11/par-1 - art-42/par-1: 第三十五条の二の十二第二項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の十二第二項 (Article 35-2-12, paragraph (2)), art-35-2-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-12/par-2 - art-42/par-1: 第三十五条の三の二十六第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の二十六第一項 (Article 35-3-26, paragraph (1)), art-35-3-26/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-26/par-1 - art-42/par-1: 第三十五条の三の二十七第二項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の二十七第二項 (Article 35-3-27, paragraph (2)), art-35-3-27/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-27/par-2 - art-42/par-1: 第三十五条の十七の五第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の十七の五第一項 (Article 35-17-5, paragraph (1)), art-35-17-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-17-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-17-5/par-1 - art-42/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第四十二条第一項 (Article 42, paragraph (1)), art-42/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-42/par-1 - art-42/par-3: 第一項 → 割賦販売法 第四十二条第一項 (Article 42, paragraph (1)), art-42/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-42/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第四十二条第二項（意見の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-42/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第四十二条第三項（意見の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-42/par-3 - 割賦販売法 第四十四条第二項（審査請求の手続における意見の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-44/par-2 --- ## 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 42, 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