# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19. 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（変更の届出等） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（変更の届出等） — (Notification of a Change) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19 **第一項** 許可割賦販売業者は、第十二条第一項各号に掲げる事項について変更があつたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を経済産業大臣に届け出なければならない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-1 If there is any change in a matter stated in one of the items of Article 12, paragraph (1), the licensed installment seller must notify the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of this without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 許可割賦販売業者は、前払式割賦販売契約約款を変更しようとするときは、その旨を経済産業大臣に届け出なければならない。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-2 If a licensed installment seller seeks to change the general conditions of a contract for prepaid installment sales, it must notify the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of this. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 経済産業大臣は、前項の規定による変更の届出があつた場合において、その変更後の前払式割賦販売契約約款の内容が第十五条第一項第五号の経済産業省令・内閣府令で定める基準に適合しなくなると認めるときは、当該許可割賦販売業者に対し、その内容の変更を命ずることができる。 art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-3 If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry is notified of a change under the provisions of the preceding paragraph and the minister finds that the content of the general conditions of the contract for prepaid installment sales after the change no longer conforms to the standard specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Cabinet Office Order which are referred to in Article 15, paragraph (1), item (v), the minister may order the licensed installment seller to change that content. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第十二条第二項及び第三項の規定は第一項の規定による変更の届出をする場合に、同条第二項の規定は第二項の規定による変更の届出をする場合に準用する。 art-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-4 The provisions of Article 12, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis when a notification of a change under paragraph (1) is filed and the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis when a notification of a change under paragraph (2) is filed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19/par-1: 第十二条第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-12/par-1 - art-19/par-3: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-2 - art-19/par-3: 第十五条第一項第五号 → 割賦販売法 第十五条第一項第五号 (Article 15, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-15/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-15/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-15/par-1/item-5 - art-19/par-4: 第十二条第二項 → 割賦販売法 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-12/par-2 - art-19/par-4: 第三項 → 割賦販売法 第十二条第三項 (Article 12, paragraph (3)), art-12/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-12/par-3 - art-19/par-4: 第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-1 - art-19/par-4: 第二項 → 割賦販売法 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第十九条第三項（変更の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-3 - 割賦販売法 第十九条第四項（変更の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19/par-4 - 割賦販売法 第二十三条第二項第三号（許可の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-23/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-23/par-2/item-3 - 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 第五十三条の二第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-53-2/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 220 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02