A fund may entrust part of its services to a financial instruments firms association (meaning an authorized financial instruments firms association or certified financial instruments business association prescribed in Article 78, paragraph (2); the same applies in the following paragraph) or a financial instruments business operator with the advance authorization of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.
基金は、あらかじめ内閣総理大臣及び財務大臣の認可を受けて、金融商品取引業協会（認可金融商品取引業協会又は第七十八条第二項に規定する認定金融商品取引業協会をいう。次項において同じ。）又は金融商品取引業者に対し、その業務の一部を委託することができる。
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act or other laws and regulations, if the authorization prescribed in the preceding paragraph is granted, the financial instruments firms association or financial instruments business operator may be entrusted with the services to which that authorization pertains and perform those services.
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(Certification of Certified Financial Instruments Business Associations)
A general incorporated association certified pursuant to the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "certified financial instruments business association" in this paragraph and the…
前項の規定により認定された一般社団法人（以下この項及び次条において「認定金融商品取引業協会」という。）は、次に掲げる業務を行うものとする。
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A fund may entrust part of its services to a financial instruments firms association (meaning an authorized financial instruments firms association or certified financial instruments business…
基金は、あらかじめ内閣総理大臣及び財務大臣の認可を受けて、金融商品取引業協会（認可金融商品取引業協会又は第七十八条第二項に規定する認定金融商品取引業協会をいう。次項において同じ。）又は金融商品取引業者に対し、その業務の一部を委託することができる。
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Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act or other laws and regulations, if the authorization prescribed in the preceding paragraph is granted, the financial instruments firms association or…
前項に規定する認可があつたときは、金融商品取引業協会及び金融商品取引業者は、この法律又は他の法令の規定にかかわらず、当該認可に係る業務を受託し、当該業務を行うことができる。
Open this provisionfinancial instruments business operator
「金融商品取引業者」
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 29 to carry on financial instruments business (金融商品取引業).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (9)· applies throughout the law
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
certified financial instruments business association
「認定金融商品取引業協会」
A general incorporated association (一般社団法人) set up by financial instruments business operators that the Prime Minister has certified under Article 78, paragraph (1) to carry on the work listed in paragraph (2) of that Article for its members and the financial instruments intermediary service providers tied to them, such as guiding them to comply with the law, investigating them, resolving investors' complaints and disputes, registering sales representatives and making rules.
Short name set inArticle 78, paragraph (2)· applies only in this paragraph and in Article 78-2
fund
「基金」
An investor protection fund (投資者保護基金): a body that protects investors by making payments to general customers under Article 79-56, paragraph (1) and carrying on its other business, so as to maintain confidence in securities transactions and commodity-related market derivatives transactions.
Short name set inArticle 79-21, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
financial instruments firms association
「金融商品取引業協会」
In Article 79-50, paragraphs (1) and (2), an authorized financial instruments firms association (認可金融商品取引業協会) or a certified financial instruments business association (認定金融商品取引業協会), to which an investor protection fund (基金) may, with the authorization of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance, entrust part of its business.
Defined inArticle 79-50, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 79-50, paragraph (2)
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.