Article 156-63Provision of Data on Centrally Cleared Trades by Financial Instruments Clearing Organizations

①A financial instruments clearing organization, etc. (meaning a financial instruments clearing organization or foreign financial instruments clearing organization; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, provide data on centrally cleared trades to a trade repository (meaning a person that has been designated under the provisions of Article 156-67, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter) or a designated foreign trade repository (meaning a person that conducts the same kind of business as a trade repository business (meaning a business concerning the collection and preservation of trade data; the same applies hereinafter) in a foreign country that is designated by the Prime Minister as a person from whom the Prime Minister expects to obtain trade data that has been collected and preserved by that person; the same applies in the following paragraph and the following Article).

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if a financial instruments clearing organization, etc. is unable to provide data on centrally cleared trades to a trade repository or designated foreign trade repository due to a disaster or other compelling reasons specified by Cabinet Office Order, the financial instruments clearing organization, etc. must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, prepare and preserve records concerning the particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order with regard to data on centrally cleared trades, and must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, report the data on centrally cleared trades it has preserved to the Prime Minister.

③The term "trade data" as used in paragraph (1) and this paragraph means data on trades specified by Cabinet Office Order as data for which the status of transactions by a financial instruments business operator, etc. is required to be made clear for the protection of investors, and the term "data on centrally cleared trades" as used in the preceding two paragraphs means trade data concerning transactions for which a financial instruments clearing organization, etc. bears obligations, which is related to the trade specified by Cabinet Office Order in consideration of the transactions set forth in the items of the preceding Article and the status of transactions, etc.