# 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 / Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment — 第十条 (Article 10) - Law: 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 (Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment), 昭和三十一年法律第百二十号 - English title "Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment": 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: 第十条 (Article 10)（勧告） — address `art-10` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-10 - 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. --- ### 第十条（勧告） — (Recommendations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-10 **第一項** 公正取引委員会は、第五条の規定に違反する行為があると認めるときは、当該行為をした委託事業者（委託事業者が合併により消滅した場合にあつては合併後存続し、又は合併により設立された法人、委託事業者の分割により当該行為に係る事業の全部又は一部の承継があつた場合にあつては当該事業の全部又は一部を承継した法人、委託事業者の当該行為に係る事業の全部又は一部の譲渡があつた場合にあつては当該事業の全部又は一部を譲り受けた事業者。次項及び次条において「違反委託事業者」という。）に対し、速やかにその中小受託事業者の給付を受領し、その製造委託等代金若しくはその減じた額若しくは第六条の規定による遅延利息を支払い、その給付に係る物を再び引き取り、その製造委託等代金の額を引き上げ、若しくはその購入させた物を引き取るべきこと若しくはその不利益な取扱いをやめるべきこと又はその中小受託事業者の利益を保護するための措置をとるべきことその他必要な措置をとるべきことを勧告するものとする。 art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-10/par-1 If the Japan Fair Trade Commission finds that an act in violation of the provisions of Article 5 has taken place, the Japan Fair Trade Commission is to recommend the entrusting business operator (if the entrusting business operator has ceased to exist as a result of a merger, the corporation surviving after the merger or established as a result of the merger; if all or part of the business involved in the act has been succeeded to as a result of the split of the entrusting business operator, the corporation that has succeeded to all or part of the business; if all or part of the business involved in the act has been transferred by the entrusting business operator, the business operator that has acquired all or part of the business; referred to as the "violating entrusting business operator" in the following paragraph and the following Article) that has committed the act to promptly receive the performance of the small and medium-sized entrusted business operator, pay the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc. or any amount less or delay interest pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, take back the things related to the performance again, increase the amount of the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc. or take back the things that the entrusting business operator had them purchase, cease the disadvantageous treatment, or take measures to protect the interests of the small and medium-sized entrusted business operator, or take other necessary measures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公正取引委員会は、第五条の規定に違反する行為が既になくなつている場合においても、特に必要があると認めるときは、違反委託事業者に対し、当該行為が既になくなつている旨の周知措置その他当該行為が排除されたことを確保するために必要な措置をとるべきことを勧告することができる。 art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-10/par-2 Even if an act in violation of the provisions of Article 5 has already ceased to exist, the Japan Fair Trade Commission may, when it finds it particularly necessary, recommend that the violating entrusting business operator take measures to make it known to the public that the act has already ceased to exist, and take any other measures necessary to ensure that the act has been eliminated. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-10/par-1: 第五条 → 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-5 - art-10/par-1: 次項 → 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第十条第二項 (Article 10, paragraph (2)), art-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-10/par-2 - art-10/par-1: 次条 → 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-11 - art-10/par-1: 第六条 → 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-6 - art-10/par-2: 第五条 → 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-5 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第十条第一項（勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-10/par-1 - 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第十一条第一項（私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律との関係） — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-11/par-1 - 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 附則第二条第二項（下請代金支払遅延等防止法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/suppl-5071-41/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/suppl-5071-41/art-2/par-2 - 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 附則第二条第三項（下請代金支払遅延等防止法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/suppl-5071-41/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/suppl-5071-41/art-2/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/331AC0000000120/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5106/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11