# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第二十条 (Article 20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-20. 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（契約の締結の禁止） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（契約の締結の禁止） — (Prohibition on the Conclusion of Contracts) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-20 **第一項** 経済産業大臣は、許可割賦販売業者が第十五条第一項第三号の規定に該当することとなつたときは、当該許可割賦販売業者に対し、前払式割賦販売の契約を締結してはならない旨を命じなければならない。ただし、その命令をすることによつて購入者の保護に欠けることとなる場合は、この限りでない。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-20/par-1 If a licensed installment seller comes to fall under the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1), item (iii), the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must order that licensed installment seller not to conclude a contract for prepaid installment sales; provided, however, that this does not apply if the protection of purchasers would be compromised by that order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 経済産業大臣は、前項の規定による命令をした場合において、その許可割賦販売業者が六月以内にその命令の要件に該当しなくなつたときは、その命令を取り消さなければならない。 art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-20/par-2 If the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry issues an order under the provisions of the preceding paragraph and the licensed installment seller comes to no longer fall under the requirements referred to in that order within six months, the minister must rescind that order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-20/par-1: 第十五条第一項第三号 → 割賦販売法 第十五条第一項第三号 (Article 15, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-15/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-15/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-15/par-1/item-3 - art-20/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第二十条第一項 (Article 20, paragraph (1)), art-20/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-20/par-1 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第二十条第二項（契約の締結の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-20/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第二十三条第一項第二号（許可の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-23/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-23/par-1/item-2 - 割賦販売法 第二十三条第一項第三号（許可の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-23/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-23/par-1/item-3 - 割賦販売法 第二十四条第一項（処分の公示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-24/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第二十七条第一項第二号（契約の解除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-27/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-27/par-1/item-2 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の三十五第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-35/par-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 第四十三条第一項（聴聞の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-43/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第四十三条第二項（聴聞の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-43/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-43/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第五十一条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-51/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51/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