Service agreement with an individual freelance sole proprietor, plus the mandatory written notice of terms required under Article 3 of the Freelance Act (フリーランス保護法, formally 特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律), in force since 1 November 2024 — required for any business client ordering from an individual freelancer, even for a single, one-off job.
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FREELANCE SERVICE AGREEMENT AND ARTICLE 3 NOTICE OF TERMS (業務委託契約書・第3条通知)
Client: Freelancer: Order date:
This notice is issued under Article 3 of the Freelance Act (フリーランス保護法), in force since 1 November 2024, which requires any business ordering work from an individual freelance sole proprietor (特定受託事業者) to disclose the terms below in writing or by email, at the time of the order — even for a single, one-off engagement.
1. SCOPE OF WORK 1.1.
2. COMPENSATION AND PAYMENT 2.1. Compensation: 2.2. Acceptance of deliverables (検収): 2.3. Payment method: 2.4. Payment due date: — must be no later than 60 days after acceptance of the deliverables.
3. LONGER ENGAGEMENTS (6 MONTHS OR MORE) 3.1. Expected duration: months. 3.2. Termination notice: 3.3. Anti-harassment / pregnancy and childcare consideration:
SIGNATURES Client ______________ / on behalf of / Freelancer ______________ / /
This is a boilerplate template, not legal advice. Japan's employment, consumer, and food-safety regimes are subject to phased and periodic changes — including the April 2024 expansion of mandatory items in the 労働条件通知書 (Notice of Working Conditions) under the Labor Standards Act (労働基準法), the Freelance Act (フリーランス保護法, in force since 1 November 2024), the 2020 Civil Code (民法) reform requiring a stated liability cap (極度額) in guarantor agreements (身元保証書), the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (個人情報保護法, "APPI"), the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (特定商取引法), and the Food Sanitation Act (食品衛生法) HACCP-based sanitation management requirement — have this template reviewed and adapted by a bengoshi (弁護士) or shakai hoken rōmushi (社会保険労務士) before use, and confirm current rules at mhlw.go.jp and caa.go.jp on the date of use.
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