# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第五十条 (Article 50) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50. 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: 第五十条 (Article 50) — address `art-50` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50 - 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. --- ### 第五十条 art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、二年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。情を知つて、第二号又は第三号の違反行為をした者から特定信用情報の提供を受けた者も、同様とする。 art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50/par-1 In a case that falls under any of the following items, the violating person is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than two years, a fine of not more than 3,000,000 yen, or both. The same applies to a person that knowingly receives specified credit information from a person committing the violation referred to in item (ii) or item (iii): machine translation, not official **一** 第三十五条の三の三十九（第三十五条の三の四十七第四項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定に違反して秘密を漏らし、又は盗用したとき。 art-50/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50/par-1/item-1 the person divulges or misappropriates confidential information, in violation of the provisions of Article 35-3-39 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35-3-47, paragraph (4)); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第三十五条の三の五十九第一項の規定に違反して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を依頼し、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たとき。 art-50/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50/par-1/item-2 the person requests 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; uses specified credit information it receives from the participating designated credit bureau with which it is affiliated for purposes other than an investigation into the ability to pay; or provides the information to a third party, in violation of the provisions of Article 35-3-59, paragraph (1); or Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the person requests the participating designated credit bureau with which it is affiliated to provide it with specified information for purposes other than an investigation into the ability to pay; that uses specified credit information it receives from the participating designated credit bureau with which it is affiliated for purposes other than an investigation into the ability to pay; or that provides the information to a third party, in violation of the provisions of Article 35-3-59, paragraph (1); or" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb **三** 第三十五条の三の五十九第二項の規定に違反して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使用し、又は第三者に提供したとき。 art-50/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50/par-1/item-3 the person violates the provisions of Article 35-3-59, paragraph (2) in using the specified credit information provided by the participating designated credit bureau with which it is affiliated or by providing that information to a third party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-50/par-1: 第二号 → 割賦販売法 第五十条第一項第二号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-50/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50/par-1/item-2 - art-50/par-1: 第三号 → 割賦販売法 第五十条第一項第三号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-50/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50/par-1/item-3 - art-50/par-1/item-1: 第三十五条の三の三十九 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の三十九 (Article 35-3-39), art-35-3-39 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-39 - art-50/par-1/item-1: 第三十五条の三の四十七第四項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の四十七第四項 (Article 35-3-47, paragraph (4)), art-35-3-47/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-47/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-47/par-4 - art-50/par-1/item-2: 第三十五条の三の五十九第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の五十九第一項 (Article 35-3-59, paragraph (1)), 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 - art-50/par-1/item-3: 第三十五条の三の五十九第二項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の五十九第二項 (Article 35-3-59, paragraph (2)), 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 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-54/par-1 --- ## 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 50, paragraph (1), item (ii) — 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, 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