# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十条の二の四 (Article 30-2-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-4. 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: 第三十条の二の四 (Article 30-2-4)（契約の解除等の制限） — address `art-30-2-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2-4 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十条の二の四（契約の解除等の制限） — (Restriction on the Cancellation of a Contract) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-30-2-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2-4 **第一項** 包括信用購入あつせん業者は、包括信用購入あつせん関係受領契約であつて次の各号に掲げる包括信用購入あつせんに係るものについて当該各号に定める支払分又は弁済金の支払の義務が履行されない場合において、二十日以上の相当な期間を定めてその支払を書面（購入者又は役務の提供を受ける者の保護に支障を生ずることがない場合として経済産業省令・内閣府令で定める場合にあつては、電磁的方法）により催告し、その期間内にその義務が履行されないときでなければ、支払分又は弁済金の支払の遅滞を理由として、契約を解除し、又は支払時期の到来していない支払分若しくは弁済金の支払を請求することができない。 art-30-2-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2-4/par-1 In the event of an unperformed obligation to pay an amount to be paid or payment money prescribed in the relevant following item pursuant to a contract providing the receipt of monies subject to the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases in connection with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases as stated in that item, the comprehensive credit purchase intermediary may not cancel the contract or demand the payment of amounts to be paid or the payment money that are not yet due on the grounds of a delay in the payment of an amount to be paid or payment money, unless it makes a written demand (or by electronic or magnetic means in a case specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Cabinet Office Order as one that does not prejudice the protection of a purchaser or service recipient) for this to be paid within a reasonable period of not less than twenty days, and the obligation is not performed within that period: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In the event of an unperformed obligation to pay an amount to be paid or payment money prescribed in the relevant of following items pursuant to a contract providing the receipt of monies subject to the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases in connection with the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases as stated in that item, the comprehensive credit purchase intermediary may not cancel the contract or demand the payment of amounts to be paid or the payment money that are not yet due on the grounds of a delay in the payment of an amount to be paid or time payment, unless it makes a written demand (or by electronic or magnetic means in a case specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Cabinet Office Order as one that does not prejudice the protection of a purchaser or service recipient) for this to be paid within a reasonable period of not less than twenty days, and the obligation is not performed within that period:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb **一** 第二条第三項第一号に規定する包括信用購入あつせん　前条第一項第二号の支払分 art-30-2-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2-4/par-1/item-1 the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (i):the amount to be paid that is referred to in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第二条第三項第二号に規定する包括信用購入あつせん　前条第三項第二号の弁済金 art-30-2-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2-4/par-1/item-2 the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (ii):the payment money referred to in paragraph (3), item (ii) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定に反する特約は、無効とする。 art-30-2-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2-4/par-2 Any special provisions of a contract that run counter to the preceding paragraph are void. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-30-2-4/par-1/item-1: 第二条第三項第一号 → 割賦販売法 第二条第三項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-2/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-3/item-1 - art-30-2-4/par-1/item-1: 前条第一項第二号 → 割賦販売法 第三十条の二の三第一項第二号 (Article 30-2-3, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-30-2-3/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2-3/par-1/item-2 - art-30-2-4/par-1/item-2: 第二条第三項第二号 → 割賦販売法 第二条第三項第二号 (Article 2, paragraph (3), item (ii)), art-2/par-3/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-3/item-2 - art-30-2-4/par-1/item-2: 前条第三項第二号 → 割賦販売法 第三十条の二の三第三項第二号 (Article 30-2-3, paragraph (3), item (ii)), art-30-2-3/par-3/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-3/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2-3/par-3/item-2 - art-30-2-4/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第三十条の二の四第一項 (Article 30-2-4, paragraph (1)), art-30-2-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2-4/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十条の二の四第二項（契約の解除等の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-2-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-2-4/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第三十条の五の七第一項（契約の解除等の制限の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-5-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-5-7/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の二の三第二項（登録） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-2-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-2-3/par-2 - 割賦販売法 附則第三条第五項（割賦販売法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4161-44/art-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4161-44/art-3/par-5 - 割賦販売法 附則第五条第十一項（割賦販売法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4201-74/art-5/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4201-74/art-5/par-11 - 割賦販売法 附則第三条第一項（包括信用購入あっせん関係受領契約に係る契約の解除等の制限に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-5021-64/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-5021-64/art-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Installment Sales Act, written 2026-11-03 - 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 (割賦販売法), Article 30-2-4, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb), 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