# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第三十五条の三の六十一 (Article 35-3-61) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61. 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: 第三十五条の三の六十一 (Article 35-3-61)（前払式特定取引業の許可） — address `art-35-3-61` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-61 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条の三の六十一（前払式特定取引業の許可） — (License for Specified Prepaid Transaction Services) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35-3-61 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-61 **第一項** 前払式特定取引は、経済産業大臣の許可を受けた者でなければ、業として営んではならない。ただし、次の場合は、この限りでない。 art-35-3-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-61/par-1 It is not permissible for a person to engage in specified prepaid transactions in the course of trade without being licensed by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; provided, however, that this does not apply in the following cases: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 商品又は指定役務の前払式特定取引の方法による年間の取引額が政令で定める金額に満たない場合 art-35-3-61/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-1 the annual transaction value from specified prepaid transactions for goods or designated services is less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 指定役務が新たに定められた場合において、現に当該指定役務につき前払式特定取引の方法による取引を業として営んでいる者が、その定められた日から六月間（その期間内に次条において準用する第十二条第一項の申請書を提出した場合には、その申請につき許可又は不許可の処分があるまでの間を含む。）当該指定役務につき取引をするとき。 art-35-3-61/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-2 the designated services are newly specified, and a person currently engaged in those designated services in the course of trade using specified prepaid transactions, deals in those designated services for six months from the date of their specification (if the application referred to in Article 12, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following Article is submitted during that period, this includes the time up until the license sought under that application is granted or refused); or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前号の期間が経過した後において、その期間の末日までに締結した同号の指定役務についての前払式特定取引の契約に基づく取引を結了する目的の範囲内で営む場合 art-35-3-61/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-3 after the period stated in the preceding item passes, the only such dealings the person engages in are aimed at enabling the completion of transactions under the contracts for specified prepaid transactions for the designated services referred to in that item, which have been concluded by the last day of that period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-35-3-61/par-1/item-2: 次条 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の六十二 (Article 35-3-62), art-35-3-62 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-62 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-62 - art-35-3-61/par-1/item-2: 第十二条第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-12/par-1 - art-35-3-61/par-1/item-3: 前号 → 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の六十一第一項第二号 (Article 35-3-61, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-35-3-61/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 13 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第二条第五項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-5 - 割賦販売法 第二条第六項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-6 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の六十一第一項第三号（前払式特定取引業の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-61/par-1/item-3 - 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 第三十六条第一項（消費経済審議会及び消費者委員会への諮問） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-36/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第四十条第五項（報告の徴収） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-40/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-40/par-5 - 割賦販売法 第四十条第六項（報告の徴収） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-40/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-40/par-6 - 割賦販売法 第四十一条第一項（立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-41/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第四十一条第二項（立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-41/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第四十九条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-49/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-49/par-1/item-5 - 割賦販売法 第五十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-52/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十三条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-53-2/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 220 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02