# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第二十一条 (Article 21) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-21. 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（営業保証金及び前受業務保証金の還付） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（営業保証金及び前受業務保証金の還付） — (Refunding of Business Security Deposits and Business Deposits for Prepaid Services) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-21 **第一項** 許可割賦販売業者と前払式割賦販売の契約を締結した者は、その契約によつて生じた債権に関し、当該許可割賦販売業者又は当該許可割賦販売業者と供託委託契約を締結した受託者が供託した営業保証金又は前受業務保証金について、その債権の弁済を受ける権利を有する。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-21/par-1 A person that concludes a contract for prepaid installment sales with a licensed installment seller has the right to be repaid for the claims arising from such a contract out of the business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services made by the licensed installment seller or an entrusted party that has concluded a contract on the entrustment of business deposits with that licensed installment seller. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の権利の実行に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。 art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-21/par-2 The necessary matters relevant to the exercise of the right referred to in the preceding paragraph are specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-21/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第二十一条第一項 (Article 21, paragraph (1)), art-21/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-21/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第十八条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第二十条の三第一項（供託委託契約の受託者の供託等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-20-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-20-3/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第二十一条第二項（営業保証金及び前受業務保証金の還付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-21/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第二十二条第一項（権利の実行があつた場合の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第二十二条第二項（権利の実行があつた場合の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第二十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29/par-2 - 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 --- ## 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