# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第四条の二 (Article 4-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-4-2. 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: 第四条の二 (Article 4-2)（情報通信の技術を利用する方法） — address `art-4-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-4-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-4-2 - 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. --- ### 第四条の二（情報通信の技術を利用する方法） — (Means of Using Information and Communications Technology) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-4-2 **第一項** 割賦販売業者は、第三条第二項若しくは第三項又は前条各項の規定による書面の交付に代えて、政令で定めるところにより、当該利用者又は購入者若しくは役務の提供を受ける者の承諾を得て、当該書面に記載すべき事項を電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法であつて経済産業省令・内閣府令で定めるもの（以下「電磁的方法」という。）により提供することができる。この場合において、当該割賦販売業者は、当該書面を交付したものとみなす。 art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-4-2/par-1 With the consent of the user, purchaser, or service recipient and pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, in lieu of delivering a document under the provisions of paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) of Article 3 or the paragraphs of the preceding Article, an installment seller may provide the user, purchaser, or service recipient with the matters that are required to be stated in the document by a means that makes use of an electronic data processing system, or by any other means specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Cabinet Office Order which uses information and communications technology (referred to below as an "electronic or magnetic means"). In doing so, the installment seller is deemed to have delivered the relevant document. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-4-2/par-1: 第三条第二項 → 割賦販売法 第三条第二項 (Article 3, paragraph (2)), art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-3/par-2 - art-4-2/par-1: 第三項 → 割賦販売法 第三条第三項 (Article 3, paragraph (3)), art-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-3/par-3 - art-4-2/par-1: 前条 → 割賦販売法 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-4 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第二条第一項第二号（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-1/item-2 - 割賦販売法 第二十九条の四第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-29-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29-4/par-1 - 割賦販売法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-3/par-1 - 割賦販売法 附則第三条第一項（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-4121-120/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-3/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