Chapter III-2 Specified Prepaid Transactions
第三章の二 前払式特定取引
Article 35-3-61License for Specified Prepaid Transaction Services
第三十五条の三の六十一（前払式特定取引業の許可）
It is not permissible for a person to engage in specified prepaid transactions in the course of trade without being licensed by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; provided, however, that this does not apply in the following cases:
前払式特定取引は、経済産業大臣の許可を受けた者でなければ、業として営んではならない。ただし、次の場合は、この限りでない。
the annual transaction value from specified prepaid transactions for goods or designated services is less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order;
the designated services are newly specified, and a person currently engaged in those designated services in the course of trade using specified prepaid transactions, deals in those designated services for six months from the date of their specification (if the application referred to in Article 12, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following Article is submitted during that period, this includes the time up until the license sought under that application is granted or refused); or
after the period stated in the preceding item passes, the only such dealings the person engages in are aimed at enabling the completion of transactions under the contracts for specified prepaid transactions for the designated services referred to in that item, which have been concluded by the last day of that period.
Article 35-3-62Provisions Applied Mutatis Mutandis
第三十五条の三の六十二（準用規定）
The provisions of Article 8 apply mutatis mutandis to specified prepaid transactions and the provisions of Article 12 and Articles 15 through 29 apply mutatis mutandis when a person engages in specified prepaid transactions in the course of trade. In this case, the phrase "a contract under which designated goods or designated rights are sold, or a contract under which designated services are provided" in Article 8, item (i) is deemed to be replaced with "a contract for specified prepaid transactions involving goods or designated services"; the term "an installment sale" in item (vi) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a specified prepaid transaction carried out pursuant to the provisions of the Travel Agency Act (Act No. 239 of 1952) and other Acts specified by Cabinet Order, by a person that takes the preservative measure for advances received pursuant to the provisions of those Acts, or a specified prepaid transaction"; the phrase " the types of designated goods it seeks to sell through prepaid installment sales" in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iv) is deemed to be replaced with "the types or scope of goods or designated services it seeks to deal in through specified prepaid transactions"; the phrase "general conditions of the contract for prepaid installment sales" in paragraph (2) of that Article; Article 15, paragraph (1), item (v); and Article 19, paragraphs (2) and (3) is deemed to be replaced with "general conditions of the contract for specified prepaid transactions"; the term "Article 11" in Article 15, paragraphs (1) and (3) and Article 23, paragraph (1), item (iv) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 35-3-61"; the term "purchasers" in Article 15, paragraph (1), item (ii); the proviso to Article 20, paragraph (1); Article 20-2, paragraphs (1) and (4); and Article 23, paragraph (4) is deemed to be replaced with "purchasers or recipients of designated services"; the phrase "the cost of the goods" in Article 18-3, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 18-5, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the cost of the goods or the consideration for the designated services"; and the term "been delivered the goods" in Article 27, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "been delivered the goods or provided the designated services".
第八条の規定は前払式特定取引に、第十二条及び第十五条から第二十九条までの規定は前払式特定取引を業として営む場合に準用する。この場合において、第八条第一号中「指定商品若しくは指定権利を販売する契約又は指定役務を提供する契約」とあるのは「商品又は指定役務についての前払式特定取引の契約」と、同条第六号中「割賦販売」とあるのは「前払式特定取引及び旅行業法（昭和二十七年法律第二百三十九号）その他の政令で定める法律の規定に基づき前受金の保全のための措置を講じている者が当該法律の規定に基づいて行う前払式特定取引」と、第十二条第一項第四号中「前払式割賦販売の方法により販売しようとする指定商品の種類」とあるのは「前払式特定取引の方法による取引をしようとする商品又は指定役務の種類又は範囲」と、同条第二項、第十五条第一項第五号並びに第十九条第二項及び第三項中「前払式割賦販売契約約款」とあるのは「前払式特定取引契約約款」と、第十五条第一項及び第三項並びに第二十三条第一項第四号中「第十一条」とあるのは「第三十五条の三の六十一」と、第十五条第一項第二号、第二十条第一項ただし書、第二十条の二第一項及び第四項並びに第二十三条第四項中「購入者」とあるのは「購入者又は指定役務の提供を受ける者」と、第十八条の三第一項及び第二項並びに第十八条の五第一項中「商品の代金」とあるのは「商品の代金又は指定役務の対価」と、第二十七条第一項中「商品の引渡し」とあるのは「商品の引渡し又は指定役務の提供」と読み替えるものとする。
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
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 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)
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
designated services
「指定役務」
In Article 2, paragraph (6), Articles 35-3-61 and 35-3-62, and Articles 41 and 41-2, the services a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies for specified prepaid transactions (前払式特定取引).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies only in this paragraph and in Articles 35-3-61, 35-3-62, 41 and 41-2
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)