# 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 / Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment — 第十五条 (Article 15) - Law: 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 (Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment), 昭和三十一年法律第百二十号 - English title "Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment": 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: 第十五条 (Article 15) — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条 art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-15 **第一項** 第十二条第一項から第三項までの規定による報告をせず、若しくは虚偽の報告をし、又はこれらの規定による検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避したときは、その違反行為をした者は、五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-15/par-1 If a person has failed to make a report under the provisions of Article 12, paragraphs (1) through (3) or has made a false report, or has refused, obstructed or evaded an inspection under these provisions, the person who has committed the violation is punished by a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15/par-1: 第十二条第一項から第三項まで → 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-12/par-1 - art-15/par-1: 第十二条第一項から第三項まで → 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-12/par-2 - art-15/par-1: 第十二条第一項から第三項まで → 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第十二条第三項 (Article 12, paragraph (3)), art-12/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-12/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 第十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-16/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/331AC0000000120/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5106/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11