# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2. 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: 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2) — address `art-18-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十八条の二 art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2 **第一項** 許可割賦販売業者が一部の営業所又は代理店を廃止した場合において、営業保証金の額が第十七条第一項に規定する額をこえることとなつたときは、当該許可割賦販売業者は、そのこえる額を取り戻すことができる。 art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2/par-1 If a licensed installment seller closes some of its business offices or agency offices and the amount of the business security deposit exceeds the amount prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (1), the licensed installment seller may recover the excess amount. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の営業保証金の取戻しは、当該営業保証金につき第二十一条第一項の権利を有する者に対し、六月を下らない一定期間内に申し出るべき旨を公告し、その期間内にその申出がなかつた場合でなければ、することができない。ただし、営業保証金を取り戻すことができる理由が発生した時から十年を経過したときは、この限りでない。 art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2/par-2 The recovery of the excess business security deposit as referred to in the preceding paragraph is not permitted unless public notice is issued to the persons with the right to that business security deposit as referred to in Article 21, paragraph (1), indicating that those persons must make a filing within a fixed period of not less than six months, and no filing is made within that period; provided, however, that this does not apply once ten years have passed following the occurrence of grounds for the recovery of a business security deposit. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の公告その他第一項の規定による営業保証金の取戻しに関し必要な事項は、法務省令・経済産業省令で定める。 art-18-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2/par-3 The necessary matters of the public notice referred to in the preceding paragraph and other matters relevant to the recovery of the business security deposit as referred to in the provisions of paragraph (1) are specified by Order of the Ministry of Justice and Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18-2/par-1: 第十七条第一項 → 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-18-2/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第十八条の二第一項 (Article 18-2, paragraph (1)), art-18-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2/par-1 - art-18-2/par-2: 第二十一条第一項 → 割賦販売法 第二十一条第一項 (Article 21, paragraph (1)), art-21/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-21/par-1 - art-18-2/par-3: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第十八条の二第二項 (Article 18-2, paragraph (2)), art-18-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2/par-2 - art-18-2/par-3: 第一項 → 割賦販売法 第十八条の二第一項 (Article 18-2, paragraph (1)), art-18-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第十八条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第十八条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-2/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 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-6/par-1 --- ## 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