# 資金決済に関する法律 / Payment Services Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

- 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-4211-59/art-7`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-7
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### 第七条
<sup>suppl-4211-59/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に自家型前払式支払手段（第三条第四項に規定する自家型前払式支払手段をいう。）のみの発行の業務を行っている者（附則第四条第一項の規定により自家型発行者となったものとみなされる者を除く。）に対する第五条第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「その発行を開始してから」とあるのは、「この法律の施行の日以後において」とする。
<sup>suppl-4211-59/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-7/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) to a person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually conducting the business of issuing only prepaid payment instruments for their own business (meaning the prepaid payment instruments for their own business prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (4)) (excluding a person deemed under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions to have become an issuer of prepaid payment instruments for its own business), the phrase "since the corporation commenced to issue prepaid payment instruments for their own business" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "on or after the day on which this Act comes into effect".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4211-59/art-7/par-1: 第三条第四項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第三条第四項 (Article 3, paragraph (4)), art-3/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-3/par-4
- suppl-4211-59/art-7/par-1: 附則第四条第一項 → 資金決済に関する法律 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1
- suppl-4211-59/art-7/par-1: 第五条第一項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-5/par-1

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch payment-services-act-20261012T054915-010, translated 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
