# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-19-2. 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: 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2)（帳簿の備付け） — address `art-19-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-19-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19-2 - 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). 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. --- ### 第十九条の二（帳簿の備付け） — (Keeping of Books) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19-2 **第一項** 許可割賦販売業者は、経済産業省令で定めるところにより、帳簿を備え、前払式割賦販売の契約について経済産業省令で定める事項を記載し、これを保存しなければならない。 art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-19-2/par-1 A licensed installment seller must keep books, enter in them the matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry concerning contracts for prepaid installment sales, and archive them, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-52/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-52/par-1/item-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