# 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 — 第三条 (Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（製造委託等代金の支払期日） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（製造委託等代金の支払期日） — (Due Date of Payment for Manufacturing Consignment Proceeds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-3 **第一項** 製造委託等代金の支払期日は、委託事業者が中小受託事業者の給付の内容について検査をするかどうかを問わず、委託事業者が中小受託事業者の給付を受領した日（役務提供委託又は特定運送委託の場合にあつては、中小受託事業者からその委託に係る役務の提供を受けた日。以下同じ。）から起算して、六十日の期間内において、かつ、できる限り短い期間内において、定められなければならない。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-3/par-1 The due date of the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc. must be set within a period of 60 days, and within as short a period as possible, from the day on which the entrusting business operator receives the performance from the small or medium-sized entrusted business operator (in the case of service contract or specific transportation consignment, the day on which the entrusted services are received from the small or medium-sized entrusted business operator; the same applies below), regardless of whether or not the entrusting business operator inspects the content of the performance from the small or medium-sized entrusted business operator. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 製造委託等代金の支払期日が定められなかつたときは委託事業者が中小受託事業者の給付を受領した日が、前項の規定に違反して製造委託等代金の支払期日が定められたときは委託事業者が中小受託事業者の給付を受領した日から起算して六十日を経過した日の前日が、それぞれ製造委託等代金の支払期日と定められたものとみなす。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-3/par-2 If the due date of the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc. has not been specified, the day on which the entrusting business operator receives the performance from the small or medium-sized entrusted business operator is deemed to be specified as the due date of the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc., and if the due date of the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc. is specified in violation of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the day before the day on which 60 days have elapsed from the day on which the entrusting business operator receives the performance from the small or medium-sized entrusted business operator is deemed to be specified as the due date of the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc.. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-3/par-2: 前項 → 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 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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 第三条第二項（製造委託等代金の支払期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-3/par-2 --- ## 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