Supplementary Provisions
附 則
Supplementary Provisions, Article 1Effective Date
第一条（施行期日）
This Act comes into effect on the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding nine months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates set forth respectively in those items:
この法律は、公布の日から起算して九月をこえない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、それぞれ当該各号に掲げる日から施行する。
the provisions of Article 1 amending Article 37 of the Installment Sales Act, and the provisions of Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation;
第一条の規定中割賦販売法第三十七条の改正規定及び附則第十一条の規定 公布の日
the provisions of Article 1 amending the table of contents of the Installment Sales Act (limited to the part concerning Chapter III-2) and adding one Chapter after Article 35-3 of that Act: the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation;
第一条の規定中割賦販売法目次の改正規定（第三章の二に係る部分に限る。）及び同法第三十五条の三の次に一章を加える改正規定 公布の日から起算して六月をこえない範囲内において政令で定める日
the provisions of Article 2: the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year and nine months from the date of promulgation.
第二条の規定 公布の日から起算して一年九月をこえない範囲内において政令で定める日
Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Interim Provisions
第二条（経過規定）
The provisions of Article 4 or Article 29-3 of the Installment Sales Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") do not apply to a contract for an installment sale or a loan-affiliated installment sale concluded before this Act comes into effect.
Supplementary Provisions, Article 3
第三条
The provisions of Article 4-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4 of the New Act) do not apply to an offer for a contract for an installment sale or a loan-affiliated installment sale that an installment seller or a loan-affiliated installment seller received before this Act comes into effect.
Supplementary Provisions, Article 4
第四条
The provisions of Article 4-3 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4 of the New Act) do not apply to a contract for an installment sale or a loan-affiliated installment sale concluded before this Act comes into effect, or to an offer for a contract for an installment sale or a loan-affiliated installment sale that an installment seller or a loan-affiliated installment seller received before this Act comes into effect (including, in the case where a contract pertaining to that offer is concluded after this Act comes into effect, that contract).
Supplementary Provisions, Article 5
第五条
A person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually a licensed installment seller and that has made a business security deposit pursuant to the provisions of the Installment Sales Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") may conclude contracts for prepaid installment sales in accordance with the provisions then in force until the day on which 50 days have passed counting from the day following the first base date prescribed in Article 18-3, paragraph (1) of the New Act to arrive after this Act comes into effect.
この法律の施行の際現に許可割賦販売業者である者で、第一条の規定による改正前の割賦販売法（以下「旧法」という。）の規定により営業保証金を供託しているものは、新法第十八条の三第一項に規定する基準日でこの法律の施行後第一番目に到来するものの翌日から起算して五十日を経過する日までは、従前の例により前払式割賦販売の契約を締結することができる。
Of the business security deposit that a person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually a licensed installment seller has made pursuant to the provisions of the Former Act, the business security deposit of an amount equivalent to the amount prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1) of the New Act is deemed to be a business security deposit made pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the New Act, and the business security deposit of an amount exceeding the amount prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1) of the New Act is deemed to be a business deposit for prepaid services made as the preservative measures for advances received referred to in Article 18-3, paragraph (2) of the New Act.
With regard to a person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually a licensed installment seller, the phrase "one-half" in Article 18-3, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "five-twelfths" with respect to the first base date prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article to arrive after this Act comes into effect.
この法律の施行の際現に許可割賦販売業者である者については、新法第十八条の三第一項及び第二項中「二分の一」とあるのは、同条第一項に規定する基準日でこの法律の施行後第一番目に到来するものについて、「十二分の五」と読み替えるものとする。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 6
第六条
Public notice that is actually being given at the time this Act comes into effect pursuant to Article 29, paragraph (4) of the Former Act, and that relates to the recovery of the business security deposit under paragraph (1) of that Article (limited to recovery due to the closure of some of the business offices or agency offices), is deemed to be public notice given pursuant to Article 18-2, paragraph (2) of the New Act.
この法律の施行の際現に旧法第二十九条第四項の規定によりされている公告で、同条第一項の規定による営業保証金の取戻し（一部の営業所又は代理店を廃止したことによる取戻しに限る。）に係るものは、新法第十八条の二第二項の規定によりされた公告とみなす。
Public notice that is actually being given at the time this Act comes into effect pursuant to Article 29, paragraph (4) of the Former Act, and that relates to the recovery of the business security deposit under paragraph (1) of that Article (excluding recovery due to the closure of some of the business offices or agency offices), if no filing is made within the period in which a filing is to be made pursuant to that public notice, is deemed to have received the approval referred to in Article 18-5, paragraph (3) of the New Act at the time of the expiry of that period.
この法律の施行の際現に旧法第二十九条第四項の規定によりされている公告で、同条第一項の規定による営業保証金の取戻し（一部の営業所又は代理店を廃止したことによる取戻しを除く。）に係るものは、当該公告に係る申出をすべき期間内にその申出がなかつたときは、当該期間の満了の時に新法第十八条の五第三項の承認を受けたものとみなす。
Public notice that is actually being given at the time this Act comes into effect pursuant to Article 29, paragraph (4) of the Former Act, and that relates to the recovery of the business security deposit under paragraph (3) of that Article, is deemed to be public notice given pursuant to Article 29, paragraph (2) of the New Act.
この法律の施行の際現に旧法第二十九条第四項の規定によりされている公告で、同条第三項の規定による営業保証金の取戻しに係るものは、新法第二十九条第二項の規定によりされた公告とみなす。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 7
第七条
A person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually engaged in transactions by the method of specified prepaid transactions as a business is deemed to have obtained the license referred to in Article 29-5 of the New Act for one year from the day on which this Act comes into effect. The same applies, in the case where that person files an application for the license referred to in that Article within that period, until the disposition to grant or not to grant the license is made on that application.
この法律の施行の際現に前払式特定取引の方法による取引を業として営んでいる者は、この法律の施行の日から一年間は、新法第二十九条の五の許可を受けたものとみなす。その者がその期間内に同条の許可の申請をした場合において、その申請について許可又は不許可の処分があるまでの間も、同様とする。
A person who is deemed to have obtained the license referred to in Article 29-5 of the New Act pursuant to the preceding paragraph must, within 30 days from the day on which this Act comes into effect, notify the Minister of International Trade and Industry by attaching the general conditions of the contract for specified prepaid transactions to a document stating the matters set out in Article 12, paragraph (1), items (i), (ii) and (iv) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-6 of the New Act.
前項の規定により新法第二十九条の五の許可を受けたものとみなされる者は、この法律の施行の日から三十日以内に、新法第二十九条の六において準用する新法第十二条第一項第一号、第二号及び第四号の事項を記載した書面に前払式特定取引契約約款を添附して、通商産業大臣に届け出なければならない。
The provisions of Article 16, paragraph (3) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-6 of the New Act do not apply, for 30 days from the day on which this Act comes into effect, to a person who is deemed to have obtained the license referred to in Article 29-5 of the New Act pursuant to paragraph (1).
Supplementary Provisions, Article 8
第八条
A person who fails to make the notification under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article or makes a false notification is subject to punishment by a fine of not more than 30,000 yen.
前条第二項の規定による届出をせず、又は虚偽の届出をした者は、三万円以下の罰金に処する。
If the representative of a corporation, or the agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or individual, commits the violation referred to in the preceding paragraph in connection with the business of that corporation or individual, in addition to the offender being subject to punishment, the corporation or individual is subject to punishment by the fine prescribed in that paragraph.
Supplementary Provisions, Article 9
第九条
With regard to a person who is deemed to have obtained the license referred to in Article 29-5 of the New Act pursuant to Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (including where that person obtains the license referred to in that Article without a break), the phrase "one-half" in Article 18-3, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-6 of the New Act is deemed to be replaced as set out in the right-hand column of the following table, for each of the base dates prescribed in Article 18-3, paragraph (1) of the New Act that are set out in the left-hand column of that table.
| The first to arrive after this Act comes into effect | one-eighth |
| The second to arrive after this Act comes into effect | two-eighths |
| The third to arrive after this Act comes into effect | three-eighths |
附則第七条第一項の規定により新法第二十九条の五の許可を受けたものとみなされる者（その者が引き続き同条の許可を受けた場合を含む。）については、新法第二十九条の六において準用する新法第十八条の三第一項及び第二項中「二分の一」とあるのは、同条第一項に規定する基準日で次の表の上欄に掲げるものについて、それぞれ同表の下欄のように読み替えるものとする。
| この法律の施行後第一番目に到来するもの | 八分の一 |
| この法律の施行後第二番目に到来するもの | 八分の二 |
| この法律の施行後第三番目に到来するもの | 八分の三 |
Supplementary Provisions, Article 10
第十条
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
この法律の施行前にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
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
loan-affiliated installment sale
「ローン提携販売」
Selling designated goods or rights (指定商品, 指定権利), or providing designated services (指定役務), to a user who has been given a card or similar means (カード等) and borrows the price, with the seller guaranteeing the user's loan (or having a professional guarantor do so), where the loan is repaid over two months or more in three or more installments, or in amounts worked out at set intervals from the total borrowed.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
specified prepaid transaction
「前払式特定取引」
Acting as an intermediary in the purchase of goods (商品の売買の取次ぎ), or providing, or acting as an intermediary for, services a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, where all or part of the price is received from the purchaser or service recipient in three or more installments over two months or more before the goods are delivered or the services provided.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
installment seller
「割賦販売業者」
A person whose business is installment sales (割賦販売).
Short name set inArticle 3, paragraph (1)
prepaid installment sales
「前払式割賦販売」
An installment sale (割賦販売) under Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) in which the seller receives all or part of the price of designated goods (指定商品) in two or more payments before delivering them — a business that needs a license from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Short name set inArticle 11, paragraph (1)
licensed installment seller
「許可割賦販売業者」
A person licensed by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry under Article 11 to carry on prepaid installment sales (前払式割賦販売) as a business.
Short name set inArticle 15, paragraph (1), item (viii), (c)
loan-affiliated installment seller
「ローン提携販売業者」
A person whose business is loan-affiliated installment sales (ローン提携販売).
Short name set inArticle 29-2, paragraph (1)
the New Actmachine translation
「新法」
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 72 of 1972.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
the Former Actmachine translation
「旧法」
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 72 of 1972 amended it.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (1)
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.