# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百四十八条の三 (Article 548-3) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": 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: 第五百四十八条の三 (Article 548-3)（定型約款の内容の表示） — address `art-548-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-548-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-548-3 - 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. --- ### 第五百四十八条の三（定型約款の内容の表示） — (Disclosure of Details of Standard Terms and Conditions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-548-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-548-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-548-3 **第一項** 定型取引を行い、又は行おうとする定型約款準備者は、定型取引合意の前又は定型取引合意の後相当の期間内に相手方から請求があった場合には、遅滞なく、相当な方法でその定型約款の内容を示さなければならない。ただし、定型約款準備者が既に相手方に対して定型約款を記載した書面を交付し、又はこれを記録した電磁的記録を提供していたときは、この限りでない。 art-548-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-548-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-548-3/par-1 A preparer of the standard terms and conditions that conducts or seeks to conduct a standard transaction must disclose the details of the standard terms and conditions by a reasonable method without delay if the counterparty requests this within a reasonable period of time before or after an agreement on standard transaction is made; provided, however, that this does not apply if the preparer has already delivered to the counterparty a document that contains the standard terms and conditions or provided the other party with an electronic or magnetic record that contains the same. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 定型約款準備者が定型取引合意の前において前項の請求を拒んだときは、前条の規定は、適用しない。ただし、一時的な通信障害が発生した場合その他正当な事由がある場合は、この限りでない。 art-548-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-548-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-548-3/par-2 The provisions of the preceding Article do not apply if the preparer of the standard terms and conditions refuses the request referred to in the preceding paragraph before an agreement on standard transaction is made; provided, however, that this does not apply if a temporary communication failure takes place or the preparer has a legitimate reason to refuse it. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-548-3/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第五百四十八条の三第一項 (Article 548-3, paragraph (1)), art-548-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-548-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-548-3/par-1 - art-548-3/par-2: 前条 → 民法 第五百四十八条の二 (Article 548-2), art-548-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-548-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-548-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百四十八条の二第一項（定型約款の合意） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-548-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-548-2/par-1 - 民法 第五百四十八条の三第二項（定型約款の内容の表示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-548-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-548-3/par-2 - 民法 附則第三十三条第一項（定型約款に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-33/par-1 - 消費者契約法 第三条第一項第三号（事業者及び消費者の努力） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumer-contract-act/art-3/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/412AC0000000061/art-3/par-1/item-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11