# 資金決済に関する法律 / Payment Services Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - Law: 資金決済に関する法律 (Payment Services Act), 平成二十一年法律第五十九号 - English title "Payment Services 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（前払式支払手段発行者に係る経過措置） — address `suppl-4211-59/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（前払式支払手段発行者に係る経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Issuers of Prepaid Payment Instruments caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4211-59/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）前に前条の規定による廃止前の前払式証票の規制等に関する法律（以下「旧法」という。）第二条第一項に規定する前払式証票（以下単に「前払式証票」という。）以外の前払式支払手段（第三条第一項に規定する前払式支払手段をいう。以下同じ。）の発行の業務の全部を廃止した者（以下この条において「発行廃止者」という。）については、当該発行の業務の全部を廃止した前払式支払手段に関しては、この法律は、適用しない。ただし、発行廃止者が施行日以後再び当該前払式支払手段の発行の業務を開始したときは、その発行の業務を開始した日以後においては、この限りでない。 suppl-4211-59/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-3/par-1 This Act does not apply, with regard to the prepaid payment instruments for which the whole of the business of issuing has been discontinued, to a person who, before the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), has discontinued the whole of the business of issuing prepaid payment instruments (meaning prepaid payment instruments prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter) other than the prepaid certificates prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Regulation of Prepaid Certificates, etc. prior to its repeal under the provisions of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") (hereinafter simply referred to as "prepaid certificates") (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "person who has discontinued issuance"); provided, however, that where a person who has discontinued issuance restarts the business of issuing such prepaid payment instruments on or after the Effective Date, this does not apply on or after the day on which the person started the business of issuing. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4211-59/art-3/par-1: 前条 → 資金決済に関する法律 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4211-59/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-2 - suppl-4211-59/art-3/par-1: 第三条第一項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-3/par-1 - suppl-4211-59/art-3/par-1: この条 → 資金決済に関する法律 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4211-59/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 資金決済に関する法律 附則第三条第一項（前払式支払手段発行者に係る経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 資金決済に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421AC0000000059/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-12 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Payment Services Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4477/tb), retrieved 2026-10-12 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch payment-services-act-20261012T054915-010, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 資金決済に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-12