# 資金決済に関する法律 / Payment Services Act — 第三十六条の二 (Article 36-2) - 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: 第三十六条の二 (Article 36-2)（定義） — address `art-36-2` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-36-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-36-2 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条の二（定義） — (Definitions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-36-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-36-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-36-2 **第一項** この章において「第一種資金移動業」とは、資金移動業（特定資金移動業を除く。第四項を除き、以下同じ。）のうち、第二種資金移動業及び第三種資金移動業以外のものをいう。 art-36-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-36-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-36-2/par-1 The term "type I funds transfer services" as used in this Act means funds transfer services (excluding the specified funds transfer services; hereinafter the same applies except in paragraph (4)) other than type II funds transfer services and type III funds transfer services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** この章において「第二種資金移動業」とは、資金移動業のうち、少額として政令で定める額以下の資金の移動に係る為替取引のみを業として営むこと（第三種資金移動業を除く。）をいう。 art-36-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-36-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-36-2/par-2 The term "type II funds transfer services" as used in this Act means funds transfer services to handle only funds transfer transactions for the transfer of funds at amounts not exceeding the amount specified as a small amount by Cabinet Order in the course of trade (excluding type III funds transfer services). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** この章において「第三種資金移動業」とは、資金移動業のうち、特に少額として政令で定める額以下の資金の移動に係る為替取引のみを業として営むことをいう。 art-36-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-36-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-36-2/par-3 The term "type III funds transfer services" as used in this Act means funds transfer services to handle only funds transfer transactions for the transfer of funds at amounts not exceeding the amount specified as a particularly small amount by Cabinet Order in the course of trade. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** この章において「特定資金移動業」とは、資金移動業のうち、特定信託為替取引のみを業として営むことをいう。 art-36-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-36-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-36-2/par-4 The term "specified funds transfer services" as used in this Chapter means funds transfer services to handle only funds transfer transactions in specified trusts in the course of trade. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-36-2/par-1: 第四項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第三十六条の二第四項 (Article 36-2, paragraph (4)), art-36-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-36-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-36-2/par-4 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第七条の二第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-7-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-7-2/par-1/item-3 - 資金決済に関する法律 第二条第二十七項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-2/par-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-2/par-27 - 資金決済に関する法律 第三十六条の二第一項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-36-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-36-2/par-1 - 資金決済に関する法律 第三十七条の二第二項（特定信託会社に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-37-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-37-2/par-2 - 資金決済に関する法律 第六十二条の六第一項第九号（登録の拒否） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-62-6/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-62-6/par-1/item-9 - 資金決済に関する法律 第百一条第二項（指定紛争解決機関に関する銀行法の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-101/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-101/par-2 - 資金決済に関する法律 第百八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-108/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-108/par-1/item-1 - 資金決済に関する法律 附則第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-5021-50/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-5021-50/art-7/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