# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-3471-72/art-7` - 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-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条 suppl-3471-72/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-7 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に前払式特定取引の方法による取引を業として営んでいる者は、この法律の施行の日から一年間は、新法第二十九条の五の許可を受けたものとみなす。その者がその期間内に同条の許可の申請をした場合において、その申請について許可又は不許可の処分があるまでの間も、同様とする。 suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-1 A person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually engaged in transactions by the method of specified prepaid transactions as a business is deemed to have obtained the license referred to in Article 29-5 of the New Act for one year from the day on which this Act comes into effect. The same applies, in the case where that person files an application for the license referred to in that Article within that period, until the disposition to grant or not to grant the license is made on that application. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により新法第二十九条の五の許可を受けたものとみなされる者は、この法律の施行の日から三十日以内に、新法第二十九条の六において準用する新法第十二条第一項第一号、第二号及び第四号の事項を記載した書面に前払式特定取引契約約款を添附して、通商産業大臣に届け出なければならない。 suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-2 A person who is deemed to have obtained the license referred to in Article 29-5 of the New Act pursuant to the preceding paragraph must, within 30 days from the day on which this Act comes into effect, notify the Minister of International Trade and Industry by attaching the general conditions of the contract for specified prepaid transactions to a document stating the matters set out in Article 12, paragraph (1), items (i), (ii) and (iv) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-6 of the New Act. machine translation, not official **第三項** 新法第二十九条の六において準用する新法第十六条第三項の規定は、第一項の規定により新法第二十九条の五の許可を受けたものとみなされる者については、この法律の施行の日から三十日間は、適用しない。 suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-3 The provisions of Article 16, paragraph (3) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-6 of the New Act do not apply, for 30 days from the day on which this Act comes into effect, to a person who is deemed to have obtained the license referred to in Article 29-5 of the New Act pursuant to paragraph (1). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-1 - suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-2: 新法第十二条第一項第一号 → 割賦販売法 第十二条第一項第一号 (Article 12, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-12/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-12/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-12/par-1/item-1 - suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-2: 第二号 → 割賦販売法 第十二条第一項第二号 (Article 12, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-12/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-12/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-12/par-1/item-2 - suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-2: 第四号 → 割賦販売法 第十二条第一項第四号 (Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-12/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-12/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-12/par-1/item-4 - suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-3: 新法第十六条第三項 → 割賦販売法 第十六条第三項 (Article 16, paragraph (3)), art-16/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16/par-3 - suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-3: 第一項 → 割賦販売法 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 附則第七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-2 - 割賦販売法 附則第七条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-3 - 割賦販売法 附則第八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-1 - 割賦販売法 附則第九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-9/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch installment-sales-act-20261102T230407-004, translated 2026-11-03 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch installment-sales-act-20261102T230407-004, 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