# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第十条 (Article 10) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-10. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 割賦販売法 (Installment Sales Act), 昭和三十六年法律第百五十九号 - English title "Installment Sales Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十条 (Article 10)（勧告） — address `art-10` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-10 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十条（勧告） — (Recommendations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-10 **第一項** 主務大臣は、割賦販売業者が前条の規定により告示した割合より著しく低い第一回の賦払金の額の割賦販売価格に対する割合又は同条の規定により告示した期間より著しく長い代金の支払の期間によつて指定商品の第二条第一項第一号に規定する割賦販売を行つているため、当該商品の同号に規定する割賦販売の健全な発達に著しい支障が生じ、又は生ずるおそれがあると認めるときは、当該割賦販売業者に対し、その割合を引き上げ、又はその期間を短縮すべきことを勧告することができる。 art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-10/par-1 If the competent minister finds that a significant obstacle has arisen or could arise to the sound development of installment sales as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) for designated goods because an installment seller is conducting installment sales of those designated goods as prescribed in that item with the initial installment at a percentage of the installment price which is significantly lower than the percentage of which public notice is issued pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, or with a term for the payment of the cost which is significantly longer than the term of which public notice is issued pursuant to that Article, the minister may recommend that the installment seller increase the percentage or shorten the term. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による勧告は、告示により行なうことができる。 art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-10/par-2 A recommendation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be given through a public notice. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-10/par-1: 前条 → 割賦販売法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-9 - art-10/par-1: 第二条第一項第一号 → 割賦販売法 第二条第一項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-2/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-1/item-1 - art-10/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-10/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第九条第一項（標準条件の公示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-9/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第十条第二項（勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-10/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 割賦販売法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000159/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Installment Sales Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 222 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02