# 資金決済に関する法律 / Payment Services Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-5011-28/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/suppl-5011-28/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-5011-28/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 suppl-5011-28/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/suppl-5011-28/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-5011-28/art-5 **第一項** 旧資金決済法第六十三条の二十一の規定により仮想通貨交換業者（旧資金決済法第二条第八項に規定する仮想通貨交換業者をいう。次条において同じ。）とみなされていた者は、その行う仮想通貨の交換等（旧資金決済法第二条第七項に規定する仮想通貨の交換等をいう。）に関し負担する債務の履行を完了し、かつ、その行う仮想通貨交換業（同項に規定する仮想通貨交換業をいう。）に関し管理する利用者の財産を返還し、又は利用者に移転する目的の範囲内においては、暗号資産交換業者とみなして、新資金決済法の規定を適用する。 suppl-5011-28/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/suppl-5011-28/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-5011-28/art-5/par-1 A person who had been deemed to be a virtual currency exchange service provider (meaning a virtual currency exchange service provider prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (8) of the Former Payment Services Act; the same applies in the following Article) pursuant to Article 63-21 of the Former Payment Services Act is deemed to be a cryptoasset exchange service provider for the purpose of applying the provisions of the New Payment Services Act, within the scope of the purpose of completing the performance of obligations borne by the person in relation to the exchange, etc. of virtual currencies that the person carries out (meaning the exchange, etc. of virtual currencies prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (7) of the Former Payment Services Act) and returning the property of users under management in relation to the virtual currency exchange services that the person carries out (meaning the virtual currency exchange services prescribed in that paragraph) or transferring that property to users. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5011-28/art-5/par-1: 次条 → 資金決済に関する法律 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-5011-28/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/suppl-5011-28/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-5011-28/art-6 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 資金決済に関する法律 附則第二条第三項（資金決済に関する法律の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/suppl-5011-28/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-5011-28/art-2/par-3 --- ## 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-20261012T054915-013, 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