# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第二十九条 (Article 29) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29. 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29) — address `art-29` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29 - 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. --- ### 第二十九条 art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29 **第一項** 許可割賦販売業者が第二十三条第一項若しくは第二項の規定により許可を取り消されたとき、又は第二十五条の規定により許可が効力を失つたときは、許可割賦販売業者であつた者又はその承継人（前条の規定により許可割賦販売業者とみなされる者を除く。）は、当該許可割賦販売業者であつた者が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-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29/par-1 If the license of a licensed installment seller is rescinded pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of Article 23 or loses validity pursuant to the provisions of Article 25, the person that was formerly that licensed installment seller or its successor (excluding a person that is deemed to be a licensed installment seller pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article) may recover the business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services that the person that was formerly that licensed installment seller has made. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の営業保証金又は前受業務保証金の取戻しは、当該営業保証金又は前受業務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、営業保証金又は前受業務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-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29/par-2 The recovery of a business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services 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 or business deposit for prepaid services 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 or business deposit for prepaid services. 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又は前受業務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-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29/par-3 The necessary matters of the public notice referred to in the preceding paragraph and those relevant to the recovery of the business security deposit or business deposit for prepaid services under 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-29/par-1: 第二十三条第一項 → 割賦販売法 第二十三条第一項 (Article 23, paragraph (1)), art-23/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-23/par-1 - art-29/par-1: 第二項 → 割賦販売法 第二十三条第二項 (Article 23, paragraph (2)), art-23/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-23/par-2 - art-29/par-1: 第二十五条 → 割賦販売法 第二十五条 (Article 25), art-25 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-25 - art-29/par-1: 前条 → 割賦販売法 第二十八条 (Article 28), art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-28 - art-29/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29/par-1 - art-29/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-29/par-3: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第二十九条第二項 (Article 29, paragraph (2)), art-29/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29/par-2 - art-29/par-3: 第一項 → 割賦販売法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第二十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29/par-2 - 割賦販売法 第二十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-29/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 附則第六条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/suppl-3471-72/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3471-72/art-6/par-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