# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第十七条 (Article 17) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-17. 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: 第十七条 (Article 17) — address `art-17` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条 art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17 **第一項** 前条第一項の営業保証金の額は、主たる営業所につき十万円、その他の営業所又は代理店につき営業所又は代理店ごとに五万円の割合による金額の合計額とする。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17/par-1 The amount of the business security deposit referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is the sum total of 100,000 yen for the principal business office and 50,000 yen for each other business office or agency office. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The amount of the business security deposit referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is the sum total of 100,000 yen for the principal business office and 50,000 yen for each business office or agency office." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb **第二項** 前項の営業保証金は、経済産業省令で定めるところにより、国債証券、地方債証券その他の経済産業省令で定める有価証券（社債、株式等の振替に関する法律（平成十三年法律第七十五号）第二百七十八条第一項に規定する振替債を含む。）をもつて、これに充てることができる。 art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17/par-2 National and local government bonds and other securities specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (including book-entry transfer bonds prescribed in Article 278, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Book-Entry Transfer of Corporate Bonds and Shares (Act No. 75 of 2001)) may serve as the business security deposit referred to in the preceding paragraph, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-17/par-1: 前条第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-16/par-1 - art-17/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17/par-1 - art-17/par-2: 社債、株式等の振替に関する法律（平成十三年法律第七十五号）第二百七十八条第一項 → e-Gov law 413AC0000000075, 第二百七十八条第一項 (Article 278, paragraph (1)), art-278/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 14 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18/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 第十八条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第十八条の三第一項（前受金保全措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-3/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第十八条の三第二項（前受金保全措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-3/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 第十八条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-5/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第二十二条第一項（権利の実行があつた場合の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22/par-1 - 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 第二十二条の二第二項（営業保証金及び前受業務保証金の保管替え等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22-2/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第二十二条の二第三項（営業保証金及び前受業務保証金の保管替え等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22-2/par-3 - 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 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 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Installment Sales Act, written 2026-11-03 - 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 (割賦販売法), Article 17, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb), 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