It is prohibited for any person to issue public notice of a false quotation on the market price of securities, etc., to prepare documents that state a false quotation on the market price of securities, etc. for the purpose of issuing a public notice of or distributing them, or to distribute those documents.
何人も、有価証券等の相場を偽つて公示し、又は公示し若しくは頒布する目的をもつて有価証券等の相場を偽つて記載した文書を作成し、若しくは頒布してはならない。
It is prohibited for any person to accede to the request of the issuer, person making a secondary distribution of securities, person making a solicitation for selling, etc. only for professional investors, underwriter, or financial instruments business operator, etc., and prepare documents that state a false statement regarding a material particular in respect of securities issued by, apportioned to, or handled by that person, for the purpose of issuing a public notice of or distributing them, or to distribute those documents.
It is prohibited for an issuer, person making a secondary distribution of securities, person making a solicitation for selling, etc. only for professional investors, underwriter, or financial instruments business operator, etc. to make the request referred to in the preceding paragraph.
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(Prohibition of Issuing Public Notice of False Quotations)
It is prohibited for any person to accede to the request of the issuer, person making a secondary distribution of securities, person making a solicitation for selling…
何人も、発行者、有価証券の売出しをする者、特定投資家向け売付け勧誘等をする者、引受人又は金融商品取引業者等の請託を受けて、公示し又は頒布する目的をもつてこれらの者の発行、分担又は取扱いに係る有価証券に関し重要な事項について虚偽の記載をした文書を作成し、又は頒布してはならない。
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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
secondary distribution of securities
「有価証券の売出し」
A secondary distribution of securities: an offer to sell securities already issued, or a solicitation of offers to buy them (other than acts similar to solicitation for acquisition and acts a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) excludes), that, for paragraph (1) securities (第一項有価証券), is made to many persons as a Cabinet Order (政令) sets or falls under none of the exemptions for solicitations made only to qualified institutional investors, only to professional investors, or to a small number of persons, and that, for paragraph (2) securities (第二項有価証券), will lead a fairly large number of persons to hold them — not counting trades on a financial instruments exchange market and other transactions a Cabinet Order specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
issuer
「発行者」
A person who issues or intends to issue securities, or for securities a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies, the person it specifies; for rights treated as securities under Article 2, paragraph (2), the person a Cabinet Office Order specifies for each kind of right is treated as issuing them, at the time it specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)
underwriter
「引受人」
In this Act other than Chapter V, a person that, in a public offering or secondary distribution of securities, a private placement, or a solicitation for selling, etc. made only to professional investors, acquires all or part of the securities in order to have others acquire them, contracts to acquire whatever part no one else acquires, or, for share option certificates, contracts to acquire and exercise the options left unexercised.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)
solicitation for selling, etc. only for professional investorsmachine translation
「特定投資家向け売付け勧誘等」
A solicitation for selling, etc. (売付け勧誘等) of paragraph (1) securities (第一項有価証券) that falls under Article 2, paragraph (4), item (ii), (b) — one made only to professional investors (特定投資家) that meets the requirements listed there — other than one involving trades on a financial instruments exchange market and other securities transactions a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)
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)
securities, etc.
「有価証券等」
In Article 158, Article 168, paragraph (1), Article 173, paragraph (1) and Article 197, paragraph (2), item (i), securities, options, and financial instruments (other than securities) or financial indicators that derivatives transactions relate to.
Defined inArticle 158, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 168, paragraph (1); Article 173, paragraph (1); and Article 197, paragraph (2), item (i)