# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-51-3. 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: 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3) — address `art-51-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-51-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-3 - 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. 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. --- ### 第五十一条の三 art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-3 **第一項** 第三十七条の規定に違反して、業として、カード等を譲り受け、又は資金の融通に関してカード等の提供を受けた場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-3/par-1 If a person, in the course of trade, accepts the assignment of a card, etc. or acquires a card, etc. in connection with the lending of funds, in violation of the provisions of Article 37, that violating person is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-51-3/par-1: 第三十七条 → 割賦販売法 第三十七条 (Article 37), art-37 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-37 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十七条第一項（カード等の譲受け等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-37/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 - 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-opus-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch installment-sales-act-20261102T230407-002, 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