# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第九条 (Article 9) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-9. 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（標準条件の公示） — address `art-9` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条（標準条件の公示） — (Public Notice of Standard Terms and Conditions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-9 **第一項** 主務大臣は、第二条第一項第一号に規定する割賦販売（第十一条に規定する前払式割賦販売を除く。以下次条において同じ。）について、その健全な発達を図るため必要があるときは、指定商品ごとに、割賦販売価格に対する第一回の賦払金の額の標準となるべき割合及び第二条第一項第一号に規定する割賦販売に係る代金の支払の標準となるべき期間を定め、これを告示するものとする。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-9/par-1 When necessary in order to promote the sound development of installment sales as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) (excluding prepaid installment sales as prescribed in Article 11; the same applies below in the following Article), the competent minister is to specify the percentage of the installment price to be used as the standards for the amount of the initial installment for each designated good and the term to be used as the standards for the payment of the cost in an installment sale as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i), and to give public notice of these. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-9/par-1: 第二条第一項第一号 → 割賦販売法 第二条第一項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-2/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-1/item-1 - art-9/par-1: 第十一条 → 割賦販売法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-11 - art-9/par-1: 次条 → 割賦販売法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-10 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第十条第一項（勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-10/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 --- ## 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