Supplementary Provisions
附 則
Supplementary Provisions, Article 1Effective Date
第一条（施行期日）
This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from 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。
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 Articles 4-3, 29-3-2 and 30-2-2 of the Installment Sales Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to in this Article as 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 personal multilevel marketing contract (meaning, among multilevel marketing contracts (including a contract other than that multilevel marketing contract which relates to the sale of goods or rights or the provision of services pertaining to its multilevel marketing undertaking), a contract with an individual who carries out the sale of goods or rights pertaining to that multilevel marketing undertaking or the intermediation thereof, or the provision of services pertaining to it or the intermediation thereof, other than through a store or other similar facility; the same applies below) under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sale prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Installment Sales Act, the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article or the method of sale pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article.
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。）第四条の三、第二十九条の三の二及び第三十条の二の二の規定は、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、割賦販売法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により指定商品を販売する連鎖販売個人契約（連鎖販売契約（当該連鎖販売契約以外の契約であってその連鎖販売業に係る商品若しくは権利の販売又は役務の提供に係るものを含む。）のうち、その連鎖販売業に係る商品若しくは権利の販売若しくはそのあっせん又は役務の提供若しくはそのあっせんを店舗その他これに類似する設備によらないで行う個人との契約をいう。以下同じ。）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 do not apply to a personal multilevel marketing 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) of the Installment Sales Act.
新割賦販売法第五条の規定は、この法律の施行前に締結した連鎖販売個人契約で、割賦販売法第二条第一項に規定する割賦販売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 personal multilevel marketing contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated goods or designated rights are sold, or designated services are provided, by the method of installment sale prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Installment Sales Act, the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article or the method of sale 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 pertaining to designated goods for which a purchaser, before this Act comes into effect, concluded a personal multilevel marketing contract to purchase them by the method of loan-affiliated installment sale prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (i) or (ii) of the Installment Sales Act.
新割賦販売法第二十九条の四第二項及び第三項の規定は、この法律の施行前に購入者が割賦販売法第二条第二項第一号又は第二号に規定するローン提携販売の方法により購入する連鎖販売個人契約を締結した指定商品に係る分割返済金又は弁済金については、適用しない。
The provisions of Article 30-2-4 of the New Installment Sales Act do not apply to the intermediation of installment purchases pertaining to a personal multilevel marketing contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated goods are sold by the method of sale pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Installment Sales Act.
新割賦販売法第三十条の二の四の規定は、この法律の施行前に締結した連鎖販売個人契約で割賦販売法第二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により指定商品を販売するものに係る割賦購入あっせんについては、適用しない。
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 pertaining to designated goods for which a purchaser, before this Act comes into effect, concluded a personal multilevel marketing 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 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連鎖販売個人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 4Delegation to Cabinet Order
第四条（政令への委任）
Beyond what is provided in the preceding two Articles, any transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are provided by Cabinet Order.
前二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 5Review
第五条（検討）
Approximately five years after the enforcement of this Act, the government is to review the provisions of the New Specified Commercial Transactions Act according to the changes in the situation of commercial transactions that arise in the everyday lives of the people and any other economic and social conditions, and take necessary measures based on the results of its review.
政府は、この法律の施行後五年を目途として、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、新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。
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
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)
multilevel marketing undertakingmachine translation
「連鎖販売業」
A business of selling articles or providing services for payment (or arranging either) that draws people in to resell the goods, sell them on consignment or arrange their sale, or to provide or arrange the same kind of services, with the prospect of a specified profit (特定利益), and makes transactions with them that involve a specified burden (特定負担) — buying the goods, paying for the services or providing a transaction fee (取引料).
Defined inArticle 8, paragraph (1), item (i), (a)
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)
New Installment Sales Actmachine translation
「新割賦販売法」
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 44 of 2004.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
personal multilevel marketing contract
「連鎖販売個人契約」
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 44 of 2004, a multilevel marketing contract (連鎖販売契約), including any other contract for selling goods or rights or providing services in the same multilevel marketing undertaking (連鎖販売業), made with an individual who is to sell the goods or rights or provide the services, or arrange either, without a store or similar facility.
Defined inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)