# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第二十二条の二 (Article 22-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22-2. 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: 第二十二条の二 (Article 22-2)（営業保証金及び前受業務保証金の保管替え等） — address `art-22-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十二条の二（営業保証金及び前受業務保証金の保管替え等） — (Change of Depository for a Business Security Deposit or Business Deposit for Prepaid Services) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-22-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22-2 **第一項** 許可割賦販売業者又は供託委託契約の受託者は、金銭のみをもつて営業保証金又は前受業務保証金を供託している場合において、許可割賦販売業者の主たる営業所の所在地について変更があつたためそのもよりの供託所が変更したときは、遅滞なく、営業保証金又は前受業務保証金を供託している供託所に対し、費用を予納して、所在地変更後の許可割賦販売業者の主たる営業所のもよりの供託所への営業保証金又は前受業務保証金の保管替えを請求しなければならない。 art-22-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22-2/par-1 If the business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services is made solely in cash and the nearest depository changes because the location of the principal business office of the licensed installment seller has changed, the licensed installment seller or the entrusted party under a contract on the entrustment of business deposits must pay the expenses in advance and request the depository with which the business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services has been made to transfer the business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services to the depository which is nearest to the principal business office of the licensed installment seller after the change, without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 許可割賦販売業者は、第十七条第二項に規定する有価証券又はその有価証券及び金銭をもつて営業保証金又は前受業務保証金を供託している場合において、主たる営業所の所在地について変更があつたためその最寄りの供託所が変更したときは、遅滞なく、当該営業保証金又は前受業務保証金の額と同額の営業保証金又は前受業務保証金を所在地変更後の主たる営業所の最寄りの供託所に供託しなければならない。その供託をしたときは、法務省令・経済産業省令で定めるところにより、所在地変更前の主たる営業所の最寄りの供託所に供託した営業保証金又は前受業務保証金を取り戻すことができる。 art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22-2/par-2 If a business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services is made in the form of securities provided for in Article 17, paragraph (2) or in those securities and cash, and the nearest depository changes because the location of the principal business office of a licensed installment seller has changed, the licensed installment seller must make a business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services in the same amount as that business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services with the depository which is nearest to its principal business office after the change, without delay. Once that deposit is made, the business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services that was made with the depository that was nearest to the principal business office before it changed location may be recovered pursuant to the provisions of 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 **第三項** 第十七条第二項の規定は、前項の規定により供託する場合に準用する。 art-22-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22-2/par-3 The provisions of Article 17, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis when a deposit is made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-22-2/par-2: 第十七条第二項 → 割賦販売法 第十七条第二項 (Article 17, paragraph (2)), art-17/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17/par-2 - art-22-2/par-3: 第十七条第二項 → 割賦販売法 第十七条第二項 (Article 17, paragraph (2)), art-17/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-17/par-2 - art-22-2/par-3: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第二十二条の二第二項 (Article 22-2, paragraph (2)), art-22-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-22-2/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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