# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-4. 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 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-3471-72/art-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-4 - 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 suppl-3471-72/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-4 **第一項** 新法第四条の三（新法第二十九条の四において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、この法律の施行前に締結した割賦販売若しくはローン提携販売の契約又はこの法律の施行前に割賦販売業者若しくはローン提携販売業者が受けた割賦販売若しくはローン提携販売の契約の申込み（この法律の施行後当該申込みに係る契約が締結された場合における当該契約を含む。）については、適用しない。 suppl-3471-72/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 4-3 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4 of the New Act) do not apply to a contract for an installment sale or a loan-affiliated installment sale concluded before this Act comes into effect, or to an offer for a contract for an installment sale or a loan-affiliated installment sale that an installment seller or a loan-affiliated installment seller received before this Act comes into effect (including, in the case where a contract pertaining to that offer is concluded after this Act comes into effect, that contract). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3471-72/art-4/par-1: 新法第二十九条の四 → 割賦販売法 第二十九条の四 (Article 29-4), art-29-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-29-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29-4 --- ## 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 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch installment-sales-act-20261102T230407-003, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 222 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02