# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)

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- 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4121-120/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-4
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### 第四条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4121-120/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前にした行為及び附則第二条第一項の規定により従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4121-120/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-4/par-1</sup>
The provisions then in force continue to govern the applicability of penal provisions to conduct in which a person engages before this Act comes into effect and to conduct in which a person engages after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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
- claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch installment-sales-act-20261102T230407-005, translated 2026-11-03
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch installment-sales-act-20261102T230407-006, translated 2026-11-03
- This site's parser, version 222 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02
