Supplementary Provisions
附 則
Supplementary Provisions, Article 1Effective Date
第一条（施行期日）
This Act comes into effect as of June 1, 2001.
この法律は、平成十三年六月一日から施行する。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 3Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Installment Sales Act
第三条（割賦販売法の一部改正に伴う経過措置）
The provisions of Article 4-2 of the Installment Sales Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "New Installment Sales Act") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4, paragraph (1) and Article 30-6 of the New Installment Sales Act) do not apply to an offer received, before this Act comes into effect, by an installment seller, a loan-affiliated installment seller or a seller affiliated with the intermediation of installment purchases that relates to a specified contract (meaning, among contracts concerning a transaction equivalent to a business opportunity sales transaction prescribed in Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions that were concluded by a person who carries on a business equivalent to the business opportunity sales prescribed in that paragraph, a contract with an individual who performs, at a place other than a business establishment or other similar facility, services provided or arranged in connection with the business equivalent to those business opportunity sales; the same applies below in this Article) under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sales prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Installment Sales Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "Former Installment Sales Act"), the method of loan-affiliated installment sales prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article, or the method of sales pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article (referred to in the following paragraph as the "method of installment sales, etc.").
第二条の規定による改正後の割賦販売法（以下この条において「新割賦販売法」という。）第四条の二（新割賦販売法第二十九条の四第一項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割賦販売業者、ローン提携販売業者又は割賦購入あっせん関係販売業者が受けた申込みで、第二条の規定による改正前の割賦販売法（以下この条において「旧割賦販売法」という。）第二条第一項に規定する割賦販売の方法、同条第二項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っせんに係る販売の方法（次項において「割賦販売等の方法」という。）により指定商品を販売する特定契約（特定商取引法第五十一条第一項に規定する業務提供誘引販売業に相当する事業を行う者が締結した同項に規定する業務提供誘引販売取引に相当する取引についての契約のうち、その業務提供誘引販売業に相当する事業に関して提供され、又はあっせんされる業務を事業所その他これに類似する施設によらないで行う個人との契約をいう。以下この条において同じ。）に係るものについては、適用しない。
The provisions of Article 5 of the New Installment Sales Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 30-6 of the New Installment Sales Act) do not apply to a specified contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sales, etc.
新割賦販売法第五条（新割賦販売法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特定契約で、割賦販売等の方法により指定商品を販売するものについては、適用しない。
The provisions of Article 8 of the New Installment Sales Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4, paragraph (1) and Article 30-6 of the New Installment Sales Act) do not apply to a specified contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated rights are sold or designated services are provided by the method of installment sales prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Former Installment Sales Act, the method of loan-affiliated installment sales prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article, or the method of sales or provision pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article.
The provisions of Article 29-4, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the New Installment Sales Act do not apply to amortized repayments or payment money concerning designated goods for which a purchaser, before this Act comes into effect, concluded a specified contract to purchase them by the method of loan-affiliated installment sales prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (i) or (ii) of the Former Installment Sales Act.
The provisions of Articles 30-4 and 30-5 of the New Installment Sales Act do not apply to the amount to be paid or payment money concerning designated goods for which a purchaser, before this Act comes into effect, concluded a specified contract to purchase them by the method of purchase pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in each item of Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Former Installment Sales Act.
新割賦販売法第三十条の四及び第三十条の五の規定は、この法律の施行前に購入者が旧割賦販売法第二条第三項各号に規定する割賦購入あっせんに係る購入の方法により購入する特定契約を締結した指定商品に係る支払分又は弁済金については、適用しない。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
第四条（罰則に関する経過措置）
The provisions then in force continue to govern the applicability of penal provisions to conduct in which a person engages before this Act comes into effect and to conduct in which a person engages after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions.
この法律の施行前にした行為及び附則第二条第一項の規定により従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後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。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 5Delegation to Cabinet Order
第五条（政令への委任）
Beyond what is provided in the preceding three Articles, the transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are provided by Cabinet Order.
前三条に定めるもののほか、この法律の施行に関して必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 6Review
第六条（検討）
The government is to review the provisions of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions in response to any changes in the circumstances of the commercial transactions that arise in the everyday lives of the people and any other economic and social conditions, and is to take any necessary measures based on the results of its review.
政府は、国民の日常生活に係る商取引に関する事情その他の経済的社会的環境の変化に応じ、特定商取引法の規定に検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。
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
designated service
「指定役務」
Except in Article 2, paragraph (6), Articles 35-3-61 and 35-3-62, and Articles 41 and 41-2, services provided for payment in transactions of people's everyday lives that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)
designated right
「指定権利」
A right to use facilities or to receive services, sold in transactions of people's everyday lives, that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)
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)
business opportunity sales transactionmachine translation
「業務提供誘引販売取引」
A business opportunity sales transaction as defined in Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions: a transaction (including a change in its terms) in which a person carrying on business opportunity sales (業務提供誘引販売業) sells goods or provides services, or arranges either, to someone drawn in by the prospect of profit from work using them, and which involves a specified burden (特定負担) for that person.
Defined inArticle 8, paragraph (1), item (i), (b)
business opportunity salesmachine translation
「業務提供誘引販売業」
Business opportunity sales as defined in Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions: a business of selling articles or providing services for payment (or arranging either) that draws people in with the prospect of profit from work using those goods or services, offered or arranged by the business itself, and makes transactions with them that involve a specified burden (特定負担).
Defined inArticle 8, paragraph (1), item (i), (b)
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)
amortized repayments
「分割返済金」
Each installment of repayment, including interest, of the money borrowed in a loan-affiliated installment sale (ローン提携販売).
Defined inArticle 29-3, paragraph (1), item (ii)
method of installment sales, etc.machine translation
「割賦販売等の方法」
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 120 of 2000, the method of installment sales (割賦販売), of loan-affiliated installment sales (ローン提携販売), or of sales involving the intermediation of installment purchases (割賦購入あっせん), as defined in Article 2, paragraphs (1) to (3) of the Installment Sales Act as it stood before that Act amended it.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)
New Installment Sales Actmachine translation
「新割賦販売法」
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 120 of 2000.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
Former Installment Sales Actmachine translation
「旧割賦販売法」
This Act as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 120 of 2000 amended it.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
specified contractmachine translation
「特定契約」
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 120 of 2000, a contract for a transaction corresponding to a business opportunity sales transaction (業務提供誘引販売取引) under Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions, made by a person carrying on a business corresponding to business opportunity sales with an individual who is to do the work offered or arranged without an office or similar facility.
Defined inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article