# 資金決済に関する法律 / Payment Services Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4211-59/art-4` - 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-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4211-59/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に旧法第四条第一項の届出をしている者（旧法第五条第三項の規定による届出をした者で、施行日の直前の基準日（第三条第二項に規定する基準日をいう。以下同じ。）におけるその発行した自家発行型前払式証票（旧法第二条第四項に規定する自家発行型前払式証票をいう。）の基準日未使用残高（旧法第二条第二項に規定する基準日未使用残高をいう。）が基準額（第十四条第一項に規定する基準額をいう。以下同じ。）を超えるものを含む。）は、施行日において自家型発行者（第三条第六項に規定する自家型発行者をいう。以下同じ。）となったものとみなす。 suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1 A person who has actually filed the notification under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Former Act at the time this Act comes into effect (including a person who has made a notification under Article 5, paragraph (3) of the Former Act and whose unused balance on the base date (meaning the unused balance on the base date prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Former Act) of the self-issued prepaid certificates it issued (meaning the self-issued prepaid certificates prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Former Act) as of the base date immediately preceding the Effective Date (meaning the base date prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) exceeds the standard amount (meaning the standard amount prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter)) is deemed to have become an issuer of prepaid payment instruments for its own business (meaning the issuer of prepaid payment instruments for its own business prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (6); the same applies hereinafter) on the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により自家型発行者となったものとみなされる者は、施行日以後最初に到来する基準日から起算して内閣府令で定める期間を経過する日までに第五条第一項各号に掲げる事項を記載した書類及び同条第二項に規定する書類を内閣総理大臣に提出しなければならない。 suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-2 A person deemed under the provisions of the preceding paragraph to have become an issuer of prepaid payment instruments for its own business must submit to the Prime Minister a document stating the particulars set forth in the items of Article 5, paragraph (1) and the document prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article, by the day on which the period specified by Cabinet Office Order has elapsed from the first base date to arrive on or after the Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1: 第三条第二項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第三条第二項 (Article 3, paragraph (2)), art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-3/par-2 - suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1: 第十四条第一項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-14/par-1 - suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1: 第三条第六項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第三条第六項 (Article 3, paragraph (6)), art-3/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-3/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-3/par-6 - suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-2: 前項 → 資金決済に関する法律 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-1 - suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-2: 第五条第一項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-5/par-1 - suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-2: 同条第二項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第五条第二項 (Article 5, paragraph (2)), art-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-5/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 資金決済に関する法律 附則第四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-4/par-2 - 資金決済に関する法律 附則第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-7/par-1 - 資金決済に関する法律 附則第十三条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/suppl-4211-59/art-13/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/suppl-4211-59/art-13/par-1/item-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