①The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis if a business operator commissions a third party to act as an intermediary in concluding a consumer contract between the business operator and a consumer (referred to simply as "commission" for the purposes of this paragraph), and the third party (including a person commissioned by a third party (including further commission at the second or higher degree of separation from the original commission); hereinafter referred to as a "directly or indirectly commissioned party") conducts acts in any of the ways provided for in paragraphs (1) through (4) of the preceding Article toward the consumer. In this case, the term "business operator" in the proviso to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with the "business operator or a directly or indirectly commissioned party provided for in paragraph (1) of the following Article."

②An agent of the consumer (including a subagent (including any person appointed as a subagent at the second or higher degree of separation from the original agent); the same applies hereinafter), business operator, or directly or indirectly commissioned party involved in the conclusion of a consumer contract is deemed to be the consumer, business operator, or directly or indirectly commissioned party in relation to the application of paragraphs (1) through (4) of the preceding Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph; the same applies to Articles from the following Article to Article 7).

The provisions of Article 4, paragraphs (1) through (4) must not be interpreted as precluding the application of Article 96 of the Civil Code to an offer or acceptance of an offer of a consumer contract falling under these paragraphs.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 121-2, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code, a consumer who has received benefits by a business operator's performance of an obligation under a consumer contract is obliged to return the benefits to the extent actually enriched by the consumer contract, if the consumer has rescinded the offer of a consumer contract or acceptance of an offer pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, paragraphs (1) through (4) and at the time of receiving the benefits the consumer did not know that it was rescindable.

①The rescission right under Article 4, paragraphs (1) through (4) is time-barred if it is not exercised within one year (for the rescission right set forth in paragraph (3), item (viii) of the same Article, three years) from the time that affirmation becomes possible. The same applies when five years (for the rescission right set forth in the same item, ten years) have elapsed since the conclusion of a consumer contract.

②If a subscription for shares or equity or a contribution of funds that the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005) or any other law establishes may not be rescinded on the grounds of fraud or duress is undertaken as a consumer contract, the consumer may not rescind the manifestation of an intention to be bound by the subscription for shares or equity or by the contribution of funds, pursuant to Article 4, paragraphs (1) through (4).

①The following consumer contract clauses are void:

②Regarding the clauses set forth in item (i) or (ii) of the preceding paragraph, when the consumer contract is a contract for value and the delivered subject matter does not conform to the provisions of the contract with respect to type or quality, (in the case that the consumer contract is a service contract, and the contractor delivers subject matters that do not conform to the provisions of the contract with respect to type or quality to the party that ordered the work (if the work does not require delivery, when the subject matter does not conform to the provisions of the contract with respect to type or quality when the work is completed); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) in the event that the clauses exempt the liability of the business operator for compensating damages caused to the consumer by this, or grant the authority to determine the presence of liability or limit the liability to the business operator, and when they fall under the following cases, the provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply:

③A consumer contract clause is void if it partially exempts a business operator from liability to compensate for damages to a consumer arising from the default of the business operator (excluding those that arise due to an intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the business operator, the business operator's representative, or employees) or a tortious act committed by the business operator (excluding those that arise due to an intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the business operator, the business operator's representative, or employees) during the business operator's performance of the consumer contract and does not clarify that only actions that arise due to a default excluding defaults that arise due to an intentional act or gross negligence on the part of the business operator, the business operator's representative, or employees are applicable.

A consumer contract clause is void if it forces the consumer to waive the right to cancel the contract upon the business operator's failure to perform its obligation or gives the business operator the authority to determine whether it can be cancelled.

The clauses in a consumer contract that grant a business operator the cancellation right solely because the consumer has received a decision for the commencement of guardianship, curatorship, or assistance are void (excluding those in which the consumer is obliged to provide goods, rights, services, or any other things for the purpose of the consumer contract).

①The following consumer contract clauses are void to the extent provided for in each item:

②If a business operator claims damages or demands a penalty payment for cancellation of a contract by a consumer based on a clause stipulating damages or fixed penalties for contract cancellation, the business operator must try to provide an outline of the grounds for the estimation of the amount of damages or the calculation of the penalty upon the consumer's request of an explanation.

A consumer contract clause is void if it deems a consumer's nonfeasance to manifest an intention to be bound by the offer of a consumer contract or by the acceptance of such an offer, or if it otherwise restricts a consumer's rights or expands a consumer's obligations as compared to when legal or regulatory provisions unrelated to public order are applied, unilaterally prejudicing the interests of the consumer in violation of the fundamental principle provided in Article 1, paragraph (2) of the Civil Code.

①In addition to what is provided for in this Act, the rescission of an offer or acceptance of an offer of a consumer contract and the validity of the clauses in a consumer contract are governed by the Civil Code and the Commercial Code (Act No. 48 of 1899).

②If a law or regulation other than the Civil Code and the Commercial Code specifically provides for the rescission of an offer or acceptance of an offer of a consumer contract and the validity of the clauses in a consumer contract, that law or regulation supersedes this Act.