The purpose of this Act is to protect the interests of purchasers and to achieve a smooth distribution of goods and the smooth provision of services, as well as to promote the sound development of dealings in installment sales, by taking the necessary measures to ensure the fairness of dealings in installment sales, etc., to prevent damages that purchasers suffer, and to ensure the proper management, etc. of credit card numbers, so as to contribute to the development of the national economy.
この法律は、割賦販売等に係る取引の公正の確保、購入者等が受けることのある損害の防止及びクレジットカード番号等の適切な管理等に必要な措置を講ずることにより、割賦販売等に係る取引の健全な発達を図るとともに、購入者等の利益を保護し、あわせて商品等の流通及び役務の提供を円滑にし、もつて国民経済の発展に寄与することを目的とする。
In the application of this Act, due consideration must be given to the stability and development of small and medium-sized commercial enterprises with dealings in installment sales.
この法律の運用にあたつては、割賦販売等を行なう中小商業者の事業の安定及び振興に留意しなければならない。
installment sale
「割賦販売」
Selling designated goods or rights (指定商品, 指定権利), or providing designated services (指定役務), either on terms that the price is received over two months or more in three or more payments (including out of deposits the buyer makes with a bank the seller names), or to a user given a card or similar means (カード等) on terms that the user pays, at set intervals, an amount worked out by a set method from the total bought.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law