# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第五十四条 (Article 54) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-54. 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: 第五十四条 (Article 54) — address `art-54` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-54 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-54 - 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. --- ### 第五十四条 art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-54 **第一項** 法人（人格のない社団又は財団で代表者又は管理人の定めのあるものを含む。以下この項において同じ。）の代表者若しくは管理人又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関し第四十九条又は第五十条から前条までの違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対して各本条の罰金刑を科する。 art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-54/par-1 If the representative or administrator of a corporation (including an association or a foundation that is without legal personality but that has a representative or administrator; the same applies below in this paragraph), or the agent, employee, or other worker of corporation or individual commits one of the violations referred to in Article 49 or Article 50 through the preceding Article in connection with the business of that corporation or individual, in addition to the offender being subject to punishment, the corporation or individual is subject to punishment by the fine prescribed in the respective Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 人格のない社団又は財団について前項の規定の適用がある場合には、その代表者又は管理人が、その訴訟行為につきその人格のない社団又は財団を代表するほか、法人を被告人又は被疑者とする場合の刑事訴訟に関する法律の規定を準用する。 art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-54/par-2 If the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply to an association or foundation without legal personality, its representative or its administrator represents the association or foundation without legal personality in procedural acts and the provisions of laws on criminal proceedings when a corporation stands as the accused or the suspect apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-54/par-1: この項 → 割賦販売法 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-54/par-1 - art-54/par-1: 第四十九条 → 割賦販売法 第四十九条 (Article 49), art-49 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-49 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十条 (Article 50), art-50 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-50 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十一条 (Article 51), art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十一条の二 (Article 51-2), art-51-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-51-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-2 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3), art-51-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-3 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十一条の四 (Article 51-4), art-51-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-51-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-4 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十一条の五 (Article 51-5), art-51-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-51-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-5 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十一条の六 (Article 51-6), art-51-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-51-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-51-6 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十二条 (Article 52), art-52 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-52 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十三条 (Article 53), art-53 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-53 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十三条の二 (Article 53-2), art-53-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-53-2 - art-54/par-1: 第五十条から前条まで → 割賦販売法 第五十三条の三 (Article 53-3), art-53-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-53-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-53-3 - art-54/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-54/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第五十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-54/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-54/par-2 --- ## 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