# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-16. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 割賦販売法 (Installment Sales Act), 昭和三十六年法律第百五十九号 - English title "Installment Sales 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（営業保証金の供託等） — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（営業保証金の供託等） — (Making Business Security Deposits) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16 **第一項** 許可割賦販売業者は、営業保証金を主たる営業所のもよりの供託所に供託しなければならない。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16/par-1 A licensed installment seller must make a business security deposit with the closest official depository to its principal business office. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 許可割賦販売業者は、営業保証金を供託したときは、供託物受入れの記載のある供託書の写しを添附して、その旨を経済産業大臣に届け出なければならない。 art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16/par-2 Once a licensed installment seller makes a business security deposit, it must file a notification of this with the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, accompanied by a copy of the deposit statement showing receipt of the deposit. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 許可割賦販売業者は、前項の規定による届出をした後でなければ、前払式割賦販売の営業を開始してはならない。 art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16/par-3 A licensed installment seller must not commence prepaid installment sale operations until after it files the notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16/par-3: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第十六条第二項 (Article 16, paragraph (2)), art-16/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16/par-2 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第十六条第三項（営業保証金の供託等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16/par-3 - 割賦販売法 第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第十八条の三第五項（前受金保全措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-3/par-5 - 割賦販売法 第二十条の三第六項（供託委託契約の受託者の供託等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-20-3/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-20-3/par-6 - 割賦販売法 第二十二条第三項（権利の実行があつた場合の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22/par-3 - 割賦販売法 第二十三条第二項第一号（許可の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-23/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-23/par-2/item-1 - 割賦販売法 第三十五条の三の六十二第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-35-3-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-35-3-62/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五十二条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-52/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-52/par-1/item-1 - 割賦販売法 附則第五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-5/par-2 - 割賦販売法 附則第七条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-7/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 割賦販売法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000159/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Installment Sales Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 222 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02