# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第十八条 (Article 18) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18. 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: 第十八条 (Article 18) — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条 art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18 **第一項** 許可割賦販売業者は、営業の開始後新たに営業所又は代理店を設置したときは、当該営業所又は代理店につき前条第一項に規定する割合による金額の営業保証金を供託しなければならない。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18/par-1 If a licensed installment seller newly establishes a business office or agency office after commencing operations, it must deposit the business security deposit for each such business office or agency office in the amount calculated based on the rates prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第十六条及び前条第二項の規定は、前項の規定により供託する場合に準用する。 art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18/par-2 The provisions of Article 16 and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis when a deposit is made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18/par-1: 前条第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17/par-1 - art-18/par-2: 第十六条 → 割賦販売法 第十六条 (Article 16), art-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16 - art-18/par-2: 前条第二項 → 割賦販売法 第十七条第二項 (Article 17, paragraph (2)), art-17/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17/par-2 - art-18/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第二十三条第二項第一号（許可の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-23/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-23/par-2/item-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の六十二第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-62/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十二条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-52/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-52/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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