An authorized financial instruments firms association (hereinafter referred to as an "authorized association" in this Chapter) aims to ensure fair and smooth purchase and sales and other transactions of securities and to ensure fair and smooth derivatives transactions, etc., as well as to contribute to the sound development of the financial instruments business and to the protection of investors.
認可金融商品取引業協会（以下この章において「認可協会」という。）は、有価証券の売買その他の取引及びデリバティブ取引等を公正かつ円滑にし、並びに金融商品取引業の健全な発展及び投資者の保護に資することを目的とする。
An authorized association may operate a market in which over-the-counter traded securities are traded (but only if the association members (meaning the members of an authorized association; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) conduct the transactions on their own accounts, and if association members provide intermediation, brokerage, or agency; the same applies in Article 67-11, paragraph (1)) (hereinafter referred to as an "over-the-counter securities market"), in order to facilitate the distribution of securities (limited to securities not listed on a financial instruments exchange; the same applies in Article 67-11, paragraph (1)), to ensure fairness in purchase and sales and other transactions of securities, and to contribute to the protection of investors.
For each over-the-counter securities market an authorized association operates, it may prohibit association members from making a purchase of securities as requested by a person other than a professional investor, etc. (excluding the issuer of the securities or any other person specified by Cabinet Office Order) (such a purchase is referred to as a "purchase for a general investor" in Article 67-12, item (v)), as prescribed in its articles of incorporation.
認可協会は、定款の定めるところにより、その開設する店頭売買有価証券市場ごとに、協会員が特定投資家等以外の者（当該有価証券の発行者その他の内閣府令で定める者を除く。）の委託を受けて行う有価証券の買付け（第六十七条の十二第五号において「一般投資家等買付け」という。）を禁止することができる。
An authorized association is to be a corporation.
認可協会は、法人とする。
A person that is not an authorized association must not use a word in its name which could give rise to the misconception that it is an authorized financial instruments firms association.
認可協会でない者は、その名称中に、認可金融商品取引業協会であると誤認されるおそれのある文字を用いてはならない。
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(Registration in the Over-the-Counter Traded Securities Register)
An authorized association that operates an over-the-counter securities market must register the class and issues of securities to be sold and purchased on that over-the-counter securities market in…
店頭売買有価証券市場を開設する認可協会は、当該店頭売買有価証券市場において売買を行わせようとする有価証券の種類及び銘柄を当該認可協会に備える店頭売買有価証券登録原簿に登録しなければならない。
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if the authorized association prohibits purchases for general investors pursuant to the provisions of Article 67, paragraph (3), the following matters…
第六十七条第三項の規定により一般投資家等買付けを禁止する場合にあつては、前各号に掲げるもののほか、次に掲げる事項
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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
professional investor, etc.machine translation
「特定投資家等」
A professional investor (特定投資家), or a non-resident (非居住者) as defined in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act who is of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3), item (ii), (b), (2)
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)
financial instruments business
「金融商品取引業」
Carrying on as a business any of the acts listed in Article 2, paragraph (8) — such as trading and brokering securities and derivatives, underwriting, handling public offerings and private placements, giving investment advice, managing investments and holding customers' money or securities — other than acts a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes as posing no risk to investor protection, and certain of those acts when banks, cooperative financial institutions (協同組織金融機関) and other financial institutions a Cabinet Order specifies carry them out.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (8)· applies throughout the law
over-the-counter traded securities
「店頭売買有価証券」
Securities registered under Article 67-11, paragraph (1) by an authorized financial instruments firms association (認可金融商品取引業協会) for trading on the over-the-counter securities market it opens.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (8), item (x), (c)
authorized financial instruments firms association
「認可金融商品取引業協会」
An association established under Subsection 1 of Section 1 of Chapter IV, whose purpose is to make the trading of securities and derivatives transactions, etc. fair and smooth and to contribute to the sound development of financial instruments business and to investor protection (Article 67).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (13)· applies throughout the law
financial instruments exchange
「金融商品取引所」
A membership corporation (金融商品会員制法人) or stock company (株式会社) licensed by the Prime Minister under Article 80, paragraph (1) to open a financial instruments market (金融商品市場).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (16)· applies throughout the law
derivatives transactions, etc.machine translation
「デリバティブ取引等」
In Article 33, the acts its paragraph (3) lists: market derivatives transactions (市場デリバティブ取引) and the intermediation, brokerage or agency in them (or in entrusting them) listed in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (ii) and (iii); over-the-counter derivatives transactions, etc. (店頭デリバティブ取引等); and foreign market derivatives transactions (外国市場デリバティブ取引) together with the same acts in relation to them.
Short name set inArticle 33, paragraph (3)
authorized association
「認可協会」
In Chapter IV, short for authorized financial instruments firms association (認可金融商品取引業協会): an association established under Subsection 1 of Section 1 of that Chapter, whose purpose is to make the trading of securities and derivatives transactions, etc. fair and smooth and to contribute to the sound development of financial instruments business and to investor protection.
Short name set inArticle 67, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
association membermachine translation
「協会員」
In Section 1 of Chapter 4, a member of an authorized association (認可協会).
Defined inArticle 67, paragraph (2)· applies only in this section
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)
purchase for a general investor
「一般投資家等買付け」
In Article 67, paragraph (3) and Article 67-12, item (v), a purchase of securities that an association member (協会員) of an authorized association (認可協会) makes on the order of someone other than a professional investor, etc. (特定投資家等) (or the issuer of the securities and others a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies), which the association may prohibit, under its articles of incorporation, for each over-the-counter securities market (店頭売買有価証券市場) it opens.
Short name set inArticle 67, paragraph (3)· applies only in this provision and in Article 67-12, paragraph (1), item (v)
articles of incorporation
定款
A company's own basic rules, written by its founders when it is formed: at least its purpose, its trade name, where its head office is, the value of the property contributed at incorporation and who the founders are (Companies Act, Article 27). A stock company's must be certified by a notary before it takes effect (Article 30, paragraph (1)), and can later be changed by a resolution of the shareholders meeting (Article 466). Many rules in the Act apply "unless the articles of incorporation provide otherwise", so a company's articles decide a great deal of how the Act applies to it.
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 26, 27, 30, 466, 575 as a reference.