# 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 — 第七条 (Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（書類等の作成及び保存） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（書類等の作成及び保存） — (Preparation and Preservation of Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-7 **第一項** 委託事業者は、中小受託事業者に対し製造委託等をした場合は、公正取引委員会規則で定めるところにより、中小受託事業者の給付、給付の受領（役務提供委託又は特定運送委託をした場合にあつては、中小受託事業者から役務の提供を受けたこと）、製造委託等代金の支払その他の事項について記載し又は記録した書類又は電磁的記録（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるものをいう。第十四条第三号において同じ。）を作成し、これを保存しなければならない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-7/par-1 If an entrusting business operator concludes a manufacturing consignment, etc. contract with a small or medium-sized entrusted business operator, the entrusting business operator must prepare and preserve a document or electronic or magnetic record (meaning records made in an electronic form, a magnetic form, or any other form that cannot be recognized by human perception, which are used in data processing by computers; the same applies in Article 14, item (iii)), pursuant to the provisions of Japan Fair Trade Commission Rules, in which the performance of the small or medium-sized entrusted business operator, the receipt of the performance (in the case of a service contract or specific transportation consignment, the fact that services have been received from the small or medium-sized entrusted business operator), the payment for manufacturing consignment, etc., and other matters are stated or recorded. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-7/par-1: 第十四条第三号 → 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 第十四条第一項第三号 (Article 14, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-14/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-14/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-14/par-1/item-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 第十四条第一項第三号（罰則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-contractor-payment-act/art-14/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-14/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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