# 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 — 第六条 (Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（遅延利息） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（遅延利息） — (Delayed Interest) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-6 **第一項** 委託事業者は、製造委託等代金の支払期日までに製造委託等代金を支払わなかつたときは、中小受託事業者に対し、中小受託事業者の給付を受領した日から起算して六十日を経過した日から支払をする日までの期間について、その日数に応じ、当該未払金額に公正取引委員会規則で定める率を乗じて得た金額を遅延利息として支払わなければならない。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-6/par-1 If an entrusting business operator does not pay the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc. by the due date of the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc., the entrusting business operator must pay to a small or medium-sized entrusted business operator the amount obtained by multiplying the unpaid amount by a rate specified by Japan Fair Trade Commission Rules for the period from the day on which 60 days have elapsed from the day on which the entrusting business operator received the performance from the small or medium-sized entrusted business operator to the day on which the payment is made, in accordance with the number of days, as overdue interest. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 委託事業者は、中小受託事業者の責めに帰すべき理由がないのに製造委託等代金の額を減じたときは、中小受託事業者に対し、製造委託等代金の額を減じた日又は中小受託事業者の給付を受領した日から起算して六十日を経過した日のいずれか遅い日から当該減じた額の支払をする日までの期間について、その日数に応じ、当該減じた額に公正取引委員会規則で定める率を乗じて得た金額を遅延利息として支払わなければならない。 art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-6/par-2 If an entrusting business operator reduces the amount of the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc. without any reason attributable to the small and medium-sized entrusted business operator, the entrusting business operator must pay to the small and medium-sized entrusted business operator the amount obtained by multiplying the amount of the reduction by the rate specified by Japan Fair Trade Commission Rule in accordance with the number of days from the date on which the amount of the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc. is reduced or the date on which 60 days have elapsed from the date of receipt of the performance from the small and medium-sized entrusted business operator, whichever comes later, until the date on which the amount of the reduction is paid, as delayed interest. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite 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 第十条第一項（勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-10/par-1 - 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 附則第二条第二項（下請代金支払遅延等防止法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/suppl-5071-41/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/suppl-5071-41/art-2/par-2 --- ## 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