Supplementary Provisions
附 則
This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending Article 37, paragraph (2) come into effect as of the date of promulgation.
この法律は、公布の日から起算して六月を超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、第三十七条第二項の改正規定は、公布の日から施行する。
Article 4, paragraph (3) and Article 5 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 30-6 of the New Act) and Article 30-2, paragraph (3) of the Installment Sales Act after amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") apply to those payment moneys, among the payment moneys pertaining to an installment sale prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the New Act or to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3), item (iii) of that Article, concerning designated goods, the due date of which arrives on or after the day on which this Act comes into effect.
With regard to a contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sale prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the New Act or the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article, an offer received before this Act comes into effect by an installment seller or loan-affiliated installment seller that relates to a contract to sell designated goods by the method of installment sale prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i) of that Article or the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article, and a contract concluded after this Act comes into effect that relates to that offer, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding Article 4-3 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4 of the New Act).
Article 4-3 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4 and Article 30-6 of the New Act) does not apply to a contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sale prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the New Act, the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in paragraph (2), item (ii) of that Article, or the method of sale pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article, to an offer received before this Act comes into effect by an installment seller, loan-affiliated installment seller or seller affiliated with the intermediation of installment purchases that relates to a contract to sell designated goods by the method of installment sale prescribed in paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Article, the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in paragraph (2), item (ii) of that Article, or the method of sale pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article, or to a contract concluded after this Act comes into effect that relates to that offer.
新法第四条の三（新法第二十九条の四及び第三十条の六において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、この法律の施行前に締結した契約で、新法第二条第一項第二号に規定する割賦販売の方法、同条第二項第二号に規定するローン提携販売の方法又は同条第三項に規定する割賦購入あつせんに係る販売の方法により指定商品を販売するもの並びにこの法律の施行前に割賦販売業者、ローン提携販売業者又は割賦購入あつせん関係販売業者が受けた申込みで、同条第一項第二号に規定する割賦販売の方法、同条第二項第二号に規定するローン提携販売の方法又は同条第三項に規定する割賦購入あつせんに係る販売の方法により指定商品を販売する契約に係るもの及びこの法律の施行後当該申込みに係る契約が締結された場合における当該契約については、適用しない。
Article 6, paragraph (2) and Article 30-3 of the New Act do not apply to a contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sale, or which relates to the receipt of an amount equivalent to the price of designated goods purchased by the method of purchase pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases.
Article 30-4 of the New Act applies to the amounts to be paid referred to in Article 30-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) or paragraph (5), item (ii) of the New Act that relate to designated goods purchased by a purchaser, on or after the day on which this Act comes into effect, by the method of purchase pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii) of the New Act.
新法第三十条の四の規定は、この法律の施行日以後購入者が新法第二条第三項第一号又は第二号に規定する割賦購入あつせんに係る購入の方法により購入した指定商品に係る新法第三十条の二第一項第二号又は第五項第二号の支払分について、適用する。
Article 30-5 of the New Act applies to the payment of those payment moneys, among the payment moneys pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (iii) of the New Act that relate to a voucher, etc. (meaning the voucher, etc. prescribed in paragraph (3), item (i) of that Article; the same applies below) in exchange for which or by presenting which a purchaser purchased designated goods on or after the day on which this Act comes into effect, that would be deemed to relate to those goods if Article 30-5 of the New Act were applied.
新法第三十条の五の規定は、この法律の施行日以後購入者がそれと引換えに、又はそれを提示して指定商品を購入した証票等（新法第二条第三項第一号に規定する証票等をいう。以下同じ。）に係る新法第二条第三項第三号に規定する割賦購入あつせんに係る弁済金のうち、新法第三十条の五の規定を適用した場合には当該商品に係るものとみなされることとなるものの支払について、適用する。
Article 31 of the New Act does not apply to a person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually engaged in the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (iii) of the New Act as a business, only in a case that falls under one of the following:
新法第三十一条の規定は、この法律の施行の際現に新法第二条第三項第三号に規定する割賦購入あつせんを業として営んでいる者については、次に掲げる場合に該当する場合に限り、適用しない。
the case where the person carries on that business for six months from the day on which this Act comes into effect (including, where the person has submitted the application referred to in Article 32 of the New Act within that period, the period until the disposition of registration or refusal of registration is made on that application);
この法律の施行の日から六月間（その期間内に新法第三十二条の申請書を提出した場合には、その申請につき登録又は登録拒否の処分があるまでの間を含む。）その営業をする場合
the case where, after the period referred to in the preceding item has passed, the person carries on that business within the scope of the purpose of completing transactions pertaining to vouchers, etc. issued by the last day of that period.
Dispositions, procedures and other acts carried out in relation to specified prepaid transactions before this Act comes into effect pursuant to the provisions of the Installment Sales Act prior to amendment or of orders based on the provisions of that Act are deemed to be dispositions, procedures and other acts carried out in relation to specified prepaid transactions pursuant to the provisions of the New Act or of orders based on the provisions of the New Act.
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
designated good
「指定商品」
Goods suited to being sold on standard terms that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)· 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)
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 Act No. 49 of 1984.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, paragraph (2)
voucher, etc.machine translation
「証票等」
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 49 of 1984, a voucher or similar item (証票等) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Installment Sales Act as amended by that Act, in exchange for which, or on presenting which, a purchaser buys designated goods (指定商品).
Defined inSupplementary Provisions, paragraph (7)