# 資金決済に関する法律 / Payment Services Act — 第三十二条 (Article 32) - Law: 資金決済に関する法律 (Payment Services Act), 平成二十一年法律第五十九号 - English title "Payment Services 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: 第三十二条 (Article 32)（発行保証金の還付への協力） — address `art-32` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-32 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-32 - 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. --- ### 第三十二条（発行保証金の還付への協力） — (Cooperation for Return of Security Deposits for Issuance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-32 **第一項** 前払式支払手段発行者から発行の業務の委託を受けた者、密接関係者、加盟店その他の当該前払式支払手段発行者の関係者は、当該前払式支払手段発行者が発行した前払式支払手段に係る前条第一項の権利の実行に関し内閣総理大臣から必要な協力を求められた場合には、これに応ずるよう努めるものとする。 art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-32/par-1 If a person to whom the business of issuing prepaid payment instruments has been entrusted by an issuer of prepaid payment instruments, or a closely related person, member shop or any other related person of the issuer of prepaid payment instruments is requested by the Prime Minister to extend their cooperation necessary for the fulfillment of the right specified in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article pertaining to the prepaid payment instruments issued by the issuer of prepaid payment instruments, the person is to endeavor to respond to the request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-32/par-1: 前条第一項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第三十一条第一項 (Article 31, paragraph (1)), art-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-31/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 資金決済に関する法律 第三条第四項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-3/par-4 - 資金決済に関する法律 第十条第一項第四号（登録の拒否） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-10/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-10/par-1/item-4 - 資金決済に関する法律 第二十四条第二項（立入検査等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-24/par-2 - 資金決済に関する法律 附則第十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-11/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 資金決済に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421AC0000000059/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-12 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Payment Services Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4477/tb), retrieved 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 資金決済に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-12