Article 161Restriction on Transactions by a Financial Instruments Business Operator on Its Own Account
第百六十一条（金融商品取引業者の自己計算取引等の制限）
The Prime Minister may specify, in Cabinet Office Order, matters that the Prime Minister finds to be necessary and appropriate for ensuring the public interest or the protection of investors, in order to restrict the purchase and sale of the securities that a financial instruments business operator, etc. or authorized firm for on-exchange transactions conducts on its own account, or restrict a financial instruments business operator, etc. or authorized firm for on-exchange transactions from conducting excessive volumes of purchase and sales which are found to be detrimental to the order of the financial instruments exchange market or the over-the-counter securities market.
内閣総理大臣は、金融商品取引業者等若しくは取引所取引許可業者が自己の計算において行う有価証券の売買を制限し、又は金融商品取引業者等若しくは取引所取引許可業者の行う過当な数量の売買であつて取引所金融商品市場若しくは店頭売買有価証券市場の秩序を害すると認められるものを制限するため、公益又は投資者保護のため必要かつ適当であると認める事項を内閣府令で定めることができる。
The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to market derivatives transactions and over-the-counter derivatives transactions.
前項の規定は、市場デリバティブ取引及び店頭デリバティブ取引について準用する。
The Prime Minister may specify the matters by Cabinet Office Order, which are found to be necessary and appropriate to secure the public interest or protection of investors, in order to restrict commodity-related market derivatives transactions to be conducted by a commodity trading participant on its own account, or restrict excessive volumes of transactions to be conducted by a commodity trading participant if such transactions are found to disturb the order of a financial instruments exchange market.
内閣総理大臣は、商品取引参加者が自己の計算において行う商品関連市場デリバティブ取引を制限し、又はその行う過当な数量の取引であつて取引所金融商品市場の秩序を害すると認められるものを制限するため、公益又は投資者保護のため必要かつ適当であると認める事項を内閣府令で定めることができる。
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The Prime Minister may specify, in Cabinet Office Order, matters that the Prime Minister finds to be necessary and appropriate for ensuring the public interest or the protection of investors…
内閣総理大臣は、金融商品取引業者等若しくは取引所取引許可業者が自己の計算において行う有価証券の売買を制限し、又は金融商品取引業者等若しくは取引所取引許可業者の行う過当な数量の売買であつて取引所金融商品市場若しくは店頭売買有価証券市場の秩序を害すると認められるものを制限するため…
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「有価証券」
Securities as this Act defines them: the instruments listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), among them national government and local government bonds, corporate bonds, share certificates and share option certificates, preferred equity investment certificates, beneficiary certificates of investment trusts and other trusts, investment securities, certain promissory notes, mortgage securities, option certificates and depositary receipts, foreign instruments of the same nature, and other instruments a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
commodity-related market derivatives transactions
「商品関連市場デリバティブ取引」
A market derivatives transaction (市場デリバティブ取引) on the commodities listed in Article 2, paragraph (24), item (iii)-3, or on financial indicators limited to their prices and figures calculated from them.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (8), item (i)
financial instruments exchange market
「取引所金融商品市場」
A financial instruments market (金融商品市場) opened by a financial instruments exchange (金融商品取引所).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (17)· applies throughout the law
market derivatives transactions
「市場デリバティブ取引」
A transaction listed in Article 2, paragraph (21) — such as futures, index and option transactions on financial instruments or financial indicators — carried out on a financial instruments market under the standards and methods set by the person that operates that market.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (21)· applies throughout the law
over-the-counter derivatives transactions
「店頭デリバティブ取引」
A transaction listed in Article 2, paragraph (22) — such as forward, index, option and swap transactions on financial instruments or financial indicators — carried out outside financial instruments markets and foreign financial instruments markets, other than those a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes as posing no risk to the public interest or the protection of investors.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (22)· applies throughout the law
financial instruments business operator, etc.machine translation
「金融商品取引業者等」
A financial instruments business operator (金融商品取引業者) or a registered financial institution (登録金融機関).
Defined inArticle 34, paragraph (1)
authorized firm for on-exchange transactions
「取引所取引許可業者」
A foreign securities firm (外国証券業者) that holds the Prime Minister's permission under Article 60, paragraph (1) to carry on on-exchange transaction services (取引所取引業務).
Short name set inArticle 60-4, paragraph (1)
over-the-counter securities marketmachine translation
「店頭売買有価証券市場」
The market an authorized financial instruments firms association (認可金融商品取引業協会) may open for purchases and sales of over-the-counter traded securities (店頭売買有価証券) that its members make on their own account or as intermediary, broker or agent.
Short name set inArticle 67, paragraph (2)
commodity trading participant
「商品取引参加者」
A person to whom a financial instruments exchange (金融商品取引所) has given, under Article 112, paragraph (2) or Article 113, paragraph (2), a trading qualification to carry out only commodity-related market derivatives transactions (商品関連市場デリバティブ取引) on its financial instruments exchange market.
Defined inArticle 151, paragraph (1)
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.