# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第十八条の四 (Article 18-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-4. 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: 第十八条の四 (Article 18-4) — address `art-18-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-4 - 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. --- ### 第十八条の四 art-18-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-4 **第一項** 前受金保全措置を講じた許可割賦販売業者は、基準日ごとに、当該基準日に係る基準額についての前受金保全措置につき、書面で、経済産業大臣に届け出なければならない。 art-18-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-4/par-1 A licensed installment seller that takes preservative measures for advances received must file a written notification with the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry on each base date, of the preservative measures for advances received in respect of that base amount, for that base date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 許可割賦販売業者が新たな前受金保全措置を講じて前項の規定による届出をする場合においては、当該前受金保全措置が、前受業務保証金の供託であるときは供託物受入れの記載のある供託書の写しを、供託委託契約の締結であるときは当該契約書の写しをそれぞれ同項の書面に添附しなければならない。 art-18-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-4/par-2 When a licensed installment seller takes a new preservative measure for advances received and files a notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the document referred to in that paragraph must be accompanied by a copy of the deposit statement showing the receipt of the deposit, if that preservative measure for advances received is the making of a business deposit for prepaid services, or by the copy of the contract, if that preservative measure for advances received is the conclusion of a contract on the entrustment of business deposits. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18-4/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第十八条の四第一項 (Article 18-4, paragraph (1)), art-18-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-4/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第十八条の三第三項（前受金保全措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-3/par-3 - 割賦販売法 第十八条の四第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-4/par-2 - 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 --- ## 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