# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第十八条の六 (Article 18-6) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-6. 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: 第十八条の六 (Article 18-6)（承継） — address `art-18-6` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-6 - 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. --- ### 第十八条の六（承継） — (Succession) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-6 **第一項** 許可割賦販売業者が事業の全部を譲渡し、又は許可割賦販売業者について合併若しくは分割（当該事業の全部を承継させるものに限る。）があつたときは、当該事業の全部を譲り受けた法人又は合併後存続する法人若しくは合併により設立した法人若しくは分割により当該事業の全部を承継した法人は、その許可割賦販売業者の地位を承継する。ただし、当該事業の全部を譲り受けた法人又は合併後存続する法人若しくは合併により設立した法人若しくは分割により当該事業の全部を承継した法人が第十五条第一項第二号又は同項第六号から第八号までのいずれかに該当するときは、この限りでない。 art-18-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-6/par-1 If a licensed installment seller transfers all of its business or if a licensed installment seller merges or undergoes a company split (limited to when all of its business is succeeded to), the corporation succeeding to all of its business, the corporation surviving the merger, the corporation incorporated in the merger, or the corporation succeeding to the whole of business in the company split, succeeds to the status of licensed installment seller; provided, however, that this does not apply if the corporation succeeding to the whole of the business, the corporation surviving the merger, the corporation incorporated in the merger, or the corporation succeeding to the whole of business in the company split falls under one of the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1), item (ii) or items (vi) through (viii) inclusive. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により許可割賦販売業者の地位を承継した者は、遅滞なく、その事実を証する書面を添附して、その旨を経済産業大臣に届け出なければならない。 art-18-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-6/par-2 A person that succeeds to the status of licensed installment seller pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must file a notification of this, accompanied by documents evidencing that fact, with the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18-6/par-1: 第十五条第一項第二号 → 割賦販売法 第十五条第一項第二号 (Article 15, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-15/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-15/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-15/par-1/item-2 - art-18-6/par-1: 同項第六号から第八号まで → 割賦販売法 第十五条第一項第六号 (Article 15, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-15/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-15/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-15/par-1/item-6 - art-18-6/par-1: 同項第六号から第八号まで → 割賦販売法 第十五条第一項第七号 (Article 15, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-15/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-15/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-15/par-1/item-7 - art-18-6/par-1: 同項第六号から第八号まで → 割賦販売法 第十五条第一項第八号 (Article 15, paragraph (1), item (viii)), art-15/par-1/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-15/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-15/par-1/item-8 - art-18-6/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第十八条の六第一項 (Article 18-6, paragraph (1)), art-18-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-6/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第十八条の六第二項（承継） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-18-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-18-6/par-2 - 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 第五十五条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-55/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-55/par-1/item-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