# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-3471-72/art-5` - 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-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 suppl-3471-72/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-5 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に許可割賦販売業者である者で、第一条の規定による改正前の割賦販売法（以下「旧法」という。）の規定により営業保証金を供託しているものは、新法第十八条の三第一項に規定する基準日でこの法律の施行後第一番目に到来するものの翌日から起算して五十日を経過する日までは、従前の例により前払式割賦販売の契約を締結することができる。 suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-1 A person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually a licensed installment seller and that has made a business security deposit pursuant to the provisions of the Installment Sales Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") may conclude contracts for prepaid installment sales in accordance with the provisions then in force until the day on which 50 days have passed counting from the day following the first base date prescribed in Article 18-3, paragraph (1) of the New Act to arrive after this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行の際現に許可割賦販売業者である者が旧法の規定により供託した営業保証金のうち、新法第十七条第一項に規定する額に相当する額の営業保証金は新法第十六条第一項の規定により供託した営業保証金と、新法第十七条第一項に規定する額をこえる額の営業保証金は新法第十八条の三第二項の前受金保全措置として供託した前受業務保証金とみなす。 suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-2 Of the business security deposit that a person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually a licensed installment seller has made pursuant to the provisions of the Former Act, the business security deposit of an amount equivalent to the amount prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1) of the New Act is deemed to be a business security deposit made pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the New Act, and the business security deposit of an amount exceeding the amount prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1) of the New Act is deemed to be a business deposit for prepaid services made as the preservative measures for advances received referred to in Article 18-3, paragraph (2) of the New Act. machine translation, not official **第三項** この法律の施行の際現に許可割賦販売業者である者については、新法第十八条の三第一項及び第二項中「二分の一」とあるのは、同条第一項に規定する基準日でこの法律の施行後第一番目に到来するものについて、「十二分の五」と読み替えるものとする。 suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-3 With regard to a person that, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually a licensed installment seller, the phrase "one-half" in Article 18-3, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "five-twelfths" with respect to the first base date prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article to arrive after this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-1: 新法第十八条の三第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十八条の三第一項 (Article 18-3, paragraph (1)), art-18-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-3/par-1 - suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-2: 新法第十七条第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17/par-1 - suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-2: 新法第十六条第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16/par-1 - suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-2: 新法第十八条の三第二項 → 割賦販売法 第十八条の三第二項 (Article 18-3, paragraph (2)), art-18-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-3/par-2 - suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-3: 新法第十八条の三第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十八条の三第一項 (Article 18-3, paragraph (1)), art-18-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-3/par-1 - suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-3: 第二項 → 割賦販売法 第十八条の三第二項 (Article 18-3, paragraph (2)), art-18-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-3/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 - 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