# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120. 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4121-120` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120 - 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. --- ## 附　則 平成一二年一一月一七日法律第一二〇号 suppl-4121-120 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4121-120/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成十三年六月一日から施行する。 suppl-4121-120/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of June 1, 2001. machine translation, not official ### 第三条（割賦販売法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Installment Sales Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4121-120/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-3 **第一項** 第二条の規定による改正後の割賦販売法（以下この条において「新割賦販売法」という。）第四条の二（新割賦販売法第二十九条の四第一項及び第三十条の六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割賦販売業者、ローン提携販売業者又は割賦購入あっせん関係販売業者が受けた申込みで、第二条の規定による改正前の割賦販売法（以下この条において「旧割賦販売法」という。）第二条第一項に規定する割賦販売の方法、同条第二項に規定するローン提携販売の方法又は同条第三項に規定する割賦購入あっせんに係る販売の方法（次項において「割賦販売等の方法」という。）により指定商品を販売する特定契約（特定商取引法第五十一条第一項に規定する業務提供誘引販売業に相当する事業を行う者が締結した同項に規定する業務提供誘引販売取引に相当する取引についての契約のうち、その業務提供誘引販売業に相当する事業に関して提供され、又はあっせんされる業務を事業所その他これに類似する施設によらないで行う個人との契約をいう。以下この条において同じ。）に係るものについては、適用しない。 suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-1 The provisions of Article 4-2 of the Installment Sales Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "New Installment Sales Act") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4, paragraph (1) and Article 30-6 of the New Installment Sales Act) do not apply to an offer received, before this Act comes into effect, by an installment seller, a loan-affiliated installment seller or a seller affiliated with the intermediation of installment purchases that relates to a specified contract (meaning, among contracts concerning a transaction equivalent to a business opportunity sales transaction prescribed in Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions that were concluded by a person who carries on a business equivalent to the business opportunity sales prescribed in that paragraph, a contract with an individual who performs, at a place other than a business establishment or other similar facility, services provided or arranged in connection with the business equivalent to those business opportunity sales; the same applies below in this Article) under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sales prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Installment Sales Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "Former Installment Sales Act"), the method of loan-affiliated installment sales prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article, or the method of sales pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article (referred to in the following paragraph as the "method of installment sales, etc."). machine translation, not official **第二項** 新割賦販売法第五条（新割賦販売法第三十条の六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特定契約で、割賦販売等の方法により指定商品を販売するものについては、適用しない。 suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 5 of the New Installment Sales Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 30-6 of the New Installment Sales Act) do not apply to a specified contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated goods are sold by the method of installment sales, etc. machine translation, not official **第三項** 新割賦販売法第八条（新割賦販売法第二十九条の四第一項及び第三十条の六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特定契約で、旧割賦販売法第二条第一項に規定する割賦販売の方法、同条第二項に規定するローン提携販売の方法又は同条第三項に規定する割賦購入あっせんに係る販売若しくは提供の方法により指定権利を販売し、又は指定役務を提供するものについては、適用しない。 suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-3 The provisions of Article 8 of the New Installment Sales Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 29-4, paragraph (1) and Article 30-6 of the New Installment Sales Act) do not apply to a specified contract concluded before this Act comes into effect under which designated rights are sold or designated services are provided by the method of installment sales prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Former Installment Sales Act, the method of loan-affiliated installment sales prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article, or the method of sales or provision pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article. machine translation, not official **第四項** 新割賦販売法第二十九条の四第二項及び第三項の規定は、この法律の施行前に購入者が旧割賦販売法第二条第二項第一号又は第二号に規定するローン提携販売の方法により購入する特定契約を締結した指定商品に係る分割返済金又は弁済金については、適用しない。 suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-4 The provisions of Article 29-4, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the New Installment Sales Act do not apply to amortized repayments or payment money concerning designated goods for which a purchaser, before this Act comes into effect, concluded a specified contract to purchase them by the method of loan-affiliated installment sales prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (i) or (ii) of the Former Installment Sales Act. machine translation, not official **第五項** 新割賦販売法第三十条の四及び第三十条の五の規定は、この法律の施行前に購入者が旧割賦販売法第二条第三項各号に規定する割賦購入あっせんに係る購入の方法により購入する特定契約を締結した指定商品に係る支払分又は弁済金については、適用しない。 suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-5 The provisions of Articles 30-4 and 30-5 of the New Installment Sales Act do not apply to the amount to be paid or payment money concerning designated goods for which a purchaser, before this Act comes into effect, concluded a specified contract to purchase them by the method of purchase pertaining to the intermediation of installment purchases prescribed in each item of Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Former Installment Sales Act. machine translation, not official ### 第四条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4121-120/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為及び附則第二条第一項の規定により従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4121-120/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-4/par-1 The provisions then in force continue to govern the applicability of penal provisions to conduct in which a person engages before this Act comes into effect and to conduct in which a person engages after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions. machine translation, not official ### 第五条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4121-120/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-5 **第一項** 前三条に定めるもののほか、この法律の施行に関して必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。 suppl-4121-120/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-5/par-1 Beyond what is provided in the preceding three Articles, the transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are provided by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official ### 第六条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4121-120/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-6 **第一項** 政府は、国民の日常生活に係る商取引に関する事情その他の経済的社会的環境の変化に応じ、特定商取引法の規定に検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4121-120/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-6/par-1 The government is to review the provisions of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions in response to any changes in the circumstances of the commercial transactions that arise in the everyday lives of the people and any other economic and social conditions, and is to take any necessary measures based on the results of its review. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-1: この条 → 割賦販売法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4121-120/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-3 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-1: 第四条の二 → 割賦販売法 第四条の二 (Article 4-2), art-4-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-4-2 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-1: 新割賦販売法第二十九条の四第一項 → 割賦販売法 第二十九条の四第一項 (Article 29-4, paragraph (1)), art-29-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-29-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29-4/par-1 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-1: 第三十条の六 → 割賦販売法 第三十条の六 (Article 30-6), art-30-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-6 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-1: 次項 → 割賦販売法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-2 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-2: 新割賦販売法第五条 → 割賦販売法 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-5 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-2: 新割賦販売法第三十条の六 → 割賦販売法 第三十条の六 (Article 30-6), art-30-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-6 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-3: 新割賦販売法第八条 → 割賦販売法 第八条 (Article 8), art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-8 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-3: 新割賦販売法第二十九条の四第一項 → 割賦販売法 第二十九条の四第一項 (Article 29-4, paragraph (1)), art-29-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-29-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29-4/par-1 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-3: 第三十条の六 → 割賦販売法 第三十条の六 (Article 30-6), art-30-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-6 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-4: 新割賦販売法第二十九条の四第二項 → 割賦販売法 第二十九条の四第二項 (Article 29-4, paragraph (2)), art-29-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-29-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29-4/par-2 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-4: 第三項 → 割賦販売法 第二十九条の四第三項 (Article 29-4, paragraph (3)), art-29-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-29-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29-4/par-3 - suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-5: 新割賦販売法第三十条の四 → 割賦販売法 第三十条の四 (Article 30-4), art-30-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-30-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-30-4 - 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