# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の三の十八 (Article 35-3-18) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-18. 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: 第三十五条の三の十八 (Article 35-3-18)（契約の解除等に伴う損害賠償等の額の制限） — address `art-35-3-18` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-18 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条の三の十八（契約の解除等に伴う損害賠償等の額の制限） — (Restriction on the Amount of Damages Accompanying the Cancellation of a Contract) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35-3-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-18 **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が解除された場合（第三十五条の三の十第一項本文、第三十五条の三の十一第一項、第二項若しくは第三項本文又は第三十五条の三の十二第一項本文の規定により解除された場合を除く。）には、損害賠償額の予定又は違約金の定めがあるときにおいても、当該契約に係る支払総額に相当する額にこれに対する法定利率による遅延損害金の額を加算した金額を超える額の金銭の支払を購入者又は役務の提供を受ける者に対して請求することができない。 art-35-3-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-18/par-1 In the event that a contract providing the receipt of monies subject to the intermediation of individual credit purchases is cancelled (unless the contract is cancelled pursuant to the provisions of the main clause of Article 35-3-10, paragraph (1); Article 35-3-11, paragraph (1), paragraph (2), or the main clause of paragraph (3); or the main clause of Article 35-3-12, paragraph (1)), even if the contract has provisions stating liquidated damages or the penalty for breach of contract, the individual credit purchase intermediary may not demand that the purchaser or service recipient pay an amount of money that exceeds the amount that corresponds to the total amount payable under the contract plus the amount of delay damages for this based on the applicable statutory interest rate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 個別信用購入あつせん業者は、前項の契約について第三十五条の三の八第三号の支払分の支払の義務が履行されない場合（契約が解除された場合を除く。）には、損害賠償額の予定又は違約金の定めがあるときにおいても、当該契約に係る支払総額に相当する額から既に支払われた同号の支払分の額を控除した額にこれに対する法定利率による遅延損害金の額を加算した金額を超える額の金銭の支払を購入者又は役務の提供を受ける者に対して請求することができない。 art-35-3-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-18/par-2 In the event of an unperformed obligation to pay the amount to be paid that is referred to in Article 35-3-8, item (iii) pursuant to the contract referred to in the preceding paragraph (excluding if that contract is cancelled), even if the contract has provisions stating liquidated damages or the penalty for breach of contract, the individual credit purchase intermediary may not demand that the purchaser or service recipient pay money that exceeds the amount that corresponds to the total amount payable under the contract less the amount to be paid referred to in that item that has already been paid, plus the amount of delay damages for this based on the applicable statutory interest rate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-35-3-18/par-1: 第三十五条の三の十第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の十第一項 (Article 35-3-10, paragraph (1)), art-35-3-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-10/par-1 - art-35-3-18/par-1: 第三十五条の三の十一第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の十一第一項 (Article 35-3-11, paragraph (1)), art-35-3-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-11/par-1 - art-35-3-18/par-1: 第二項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の十一第二項 (Article 35-3-11, paragraph (2)), art-35-3-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-11/par-2 - art-35-3-18/par-1: 第三項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の十一第三項 (Article 35-3-11, paragraph (3)), art-35-3-11/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-11/par-3 - art-35-3-18/par-1: 第三十五条の三の十二第一項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の十二第一項 (Article 35-3-12, paragraph (1)), art-35-3-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-12/par-1 - art-35-3-18/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の十八第一項 (Article 35-3-18, paragraph (1)), art-35-3-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-18/par-1 - art-35-3-18/par-2: 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 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の十八第二項（契約の解除等に伴う損害賠償等の額の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-18/par-2 - 割賦販売法 附則第五条第十二項（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-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4201-74/art-5/par-12 --- ## 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