# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の三の十七 (Article 35-3-17) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-17. 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: 第三十五条の三の十七 (Article 35-3-17)（契約の解除等の制限） — address `art-35-3-17` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-17 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条の三の十七（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-35-3-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-17 **第一項** 個別信用購入あつせん業者は、個別信用購入あつせん関係受領契約について第三十五条の三の八第三号に定める支払分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で催告し、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の支払を請求することができない。 art-35-3-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-17/par-1 In the event of an unperformed obligation to pay the amount to be paid that is prescribed in Article 35-3-8, item (iii) pursuant to a contract providing the receipt of monies subject to the intermediation of individual credit purchases, the individual credit purchase intermediary may not cancel the contract, or demand the payment of amounts to be paid that are not yet due, on the grounds of a delay in the payment of an amount to be paid, unless it makes a written demand for this to be paid within a reasonable period of not less than twenty days, and the obligation is not performed within the period. 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-35-3-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-17/par-2 Any special provisions of a contract that run counter to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are void. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-35-3-17/par-1: 第三十五条の三の八第三号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の八第一項第三号 (Article 35-3-8, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-35-3-8/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-8/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-8/par-1/item-3 - art-35-3-17/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の十七第一項 (Article 35-3-17, paragraph (1)), art-35-3-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-17/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の十七第二項（契約の解除等の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-17/par-2 - 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 --- ## 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