# 資金決済に関する法律 / Payment Services Act — 第十七条 (Article 17) - Law: 資金決済に関する法律 (Payment Services Act), 平成二十一年法律第五十九号 - English title "Payment Services 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: 第十七条 (Article 17)（供託命令） — address `art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条（供託命令） — (Deposit Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-17 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、前払式支払手段の利用者の利益の保護のために必要があると認めるときは、発行保証金保全契約若しくは発行保証金信託契約を締結した前払式支払手段発行者又はこれらの契約の相手方に対し、保全金額又は信託財産を換価した額の全部又は一部を供託すべき旨を命ずることができる。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-17/par-1 If the Prime Minister finds it necessary for the protection of the interests of users of prepaid payment instruments, the Minister may order an issuer of prepaid payment instruments who has concluded a guarantee contract for security deposits for issuance or a trust agreement for security deposits for issuance or the counterparty thereto to deposit all or part of the secured amount or the amount of proceeds from the trust property that have been realized. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 資金決済に関する法律 第十五条第一項（発行保証金保全契約） — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-15/par-1 - 資金決済に関する法律 第百十二条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-112/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-112/par-1/item-4 - 資金決済に関する法律 附則第十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-11/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 資金決済に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421AC0000000059/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-12 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Payment Services Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4477/tb), retrieved 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 資金決済に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-12