# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

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- 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-3471-72/art-8`
- 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-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-8
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### 第八条
<sup>suppl-3471-72/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  前条第二項の規定による届出をせず、又は虚偽の届出をした者は、三万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-1 · 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</sup>
A person who fails to make the notification under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article or makes a false notification is subject to punishment by a fine of not more than 30,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  法人の代表者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前項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同項の刑を科する。
<sup>suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-2</sup>
If the representative of a corporation, or the agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or individual, commits the violation referred to in the preceding paragraph 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 that paragraph.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-1: 前条第二項 → 割賦販売法 附則第七条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (2)), 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
- suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-1 — 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

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 割賦販売法 附則第八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-8/par-2

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## 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
