Subsection 1 General Rules
第一款 通則
第二十八条
The term "type-I financial instruments business" as used in this Chapter means the performance of any of the following acts on a regular basis, as part of financial instruments business:
この章において「第一種金融商品取引業」とは、金融商品取引業のうち、次に掲げる行為のいずれかを業として行うことをいう。
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (i) through (iii), item (v), item (viii), or item (ix) with regard to securities (excluding rights set forth in the items of Article 2, paragraph (2) that are deemed to be securities pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph (excluding electronically recorded transferable rights; the same applies in item (ii) of the following paragraph and Article 64, paragraph (1), item (i)));
有価証券(第二条第二項の規定により有価証券とみなされる同項各号に掲げる権利(電子記録移転権利を除く。次項第二号及び第六十四条第一項第一号において同じ。)を除く。)についての第二条第八項第一号から第三号まで、第五号、第八号又は第九号に掲げる行為
acts listed in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (ii), (iii) or (v) with regard to commodity-related market derivatives transactions;
商品関連市場デリバティブ取引についての第二条第八項第二号、第三号又は第五号に掲げる行為
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (iv), or an act set forth in item (v) of that paragraph in relation to over-the-counter derivatives transactions;
第二条第八項第四号に掲げる行為又は店頭デリバティブ取引についての同項第五号に掲げる行為
an act falling under any of the following (a) through (c):
次のイからハまでのいずれかに該当する行為
the wholesale underwriting of securities that is specified by Cabinet Order as involving a high necessity to manage the risk of loss;
有価証券の元引受けであつて、損失の危険の管理の必要性の高いものとして政令で定めるもの
the wholesale underwriting of securities other than that which is set forth in (a); or
有価証券の元引受けであつて、イに掲げるもの以外のもの
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (vi) other than the wholesale underwriting of securities;
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (x); or
第二条第八項第十号に掲げる行為
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xvi) or (xvii).
第二条第八項第十六号又は第十七号に掲げる行為
The term "type-II financial instruments business" as used in this Chapter means the performance of any of the following acts on a regular basis, within the financial instruments business:
この章において「第二種金融商品取引業」とは、金融商品取引業のうち、次に掲げる行為のいずれかを業として行うことをいう。
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (vii);
第二条第八項第七号に掲げる行為
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (i) through (iii), item (v), item (viii), or item (ix) with regard to rights set forth in the items of Article 2, paragraph (2) that are deemed to be securities pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph;
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (i) through (iii) or item (v) (other than one that is set forth in item (i), (i)-2 or (ii) of the preceding paragraph or the preceding item); or
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xviii).
第二条第八項第十八号に掲げる行為
The term "investment advisory and agency business" as used in this Chapter means the performance of any of the following acts on a regular basis, within the financial instruments business:
この章において「投資助言・代理業」とは、金融商品取引業のうち、次に掲げる行為のいずれかを業として行うことをいう。
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xi); or
第二条第八項第十一号に掲げる行為
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xiii).
第二条第八項第十三号に掲げる行為
The term "investment management business" as used in this Chapter means the performance of any of the following acts on a regular basis, within the financial instruments business, and includes the performance of such an act by a bank, by a cooperative financial institution, or by any other financial institution specified by Cabinet Order, on a regular basis:
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xii);
第二条第八項第十二号に掲げる行為
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xiv); or
第二条第八項第十四号に掲げる行為
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xv).
第二条第八項第十五号に掲げる行為
The term "securities, etc. management" as used in this Chapter means services within the type-I financial instruments business which are connected with the act set forth in paragraph (1), item (v).
この章において「有価証券等管理業務」とは、第一種金融商品取引業に係る業務のうち、第一項第五号に掲げる行為に係る業務をいう。
The term "investment advisory business" as used in this Chapter means services within investment advisory and agency business which are connected with the act set forth in paragraph (3), item (i).
The term "wholesale underwriting of securities" as used in this Chapter means the underwriting of securities prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (vi) which falls under a category set forth in any of the following items:
the acquisition of all or part of the relevant securities from the issuer or holder (excluding financial instruments business operators and registered financial institutions; the same applies in the following item and item (iii)) with the aim of having other persons acquire those securities;
the conclusion of a contract stipulating that if no other person acquires all or part of the relevant securities, the underwriter will acquire those that remain from the issuer or holder;
the conclusion of a contract, if the relevant securities are share option certificates (including the securities specified by Cabinet Office Order as being equivalent to them; hereinafter the same applies in this item), stipulating that when the person that has acquired the share option certificates does not exercise the share options (including the rights specified by Cabinet Office Order as being equivalent to them; hereinafter the same applies in this item) associated with all or part of those share option certificates, the underwriter themselves or a third party will acquire the share option certificates associated with the unexercised share options from the issuer or the holder of those cerficates and will exercise them.
The term "securities services" as used in this Chapter means the performance of any of the following acts on a regular basis:
この章において「有価証券関連業」とは、次に掲げる行為のいずれかを業として行うことをいう。
the purchase and sale of securities, or intermediation, brokerage (excluding brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.), or agency for the same;
有価証券の売買又はその媒介、取次ぎ(有価証券等清算取次ぎを除く。)若しくは代理
intermediation, brokerage, or agency for entrustment of the purchase and sale of securities on a financial instruments exchange market or foreign financial instruments market;
the following transactions, among market derivatives transactions:
市場デリバティブ取引のうち、次に掲げる取引
a transaction comprising a purchase and sale in which the parties to the purchase and sale promise to deliver and take delivery of a security (including a standardized instrument as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (24), item (v) which is connected with a security, other than one that is specified by Cabinet Order; hereinafter the same applies in this item) and its value at a fixed time in the future, and which the parties may settle by delivering and taking delivery of the difference in values if they sell or buy back the underlying Security;
売買の当事者が将来の一定の時期において有価証券(有価証券に係る第二条第二十四項第五号に掲げる標準物を含み、政令で定めるものを除く。以下この号において同じ。)及びその対価の授受を約する売買であつて、当該売買の目的となつている有価証券の転売又は買戻しをしたときは差金の授受によつて決済することができる取引
a transaction comprising the parties' promises to pay and receive an amount of money calculated based on the difference between the numerical value of a securities indicator upon which the parties agree in advance (hereinafter referred to as the "agreed figure for the securities" in this Chapter) and the actual numerical value of the securities indicator at a fixed time in the future (hereinafter referred to as the "actual figure for the securities" in this Chapter);
当事者があらかじめ有価証券指標として約定する数値(以下この章において「有価証券約定数値」という。)と将来の一定の時期における現実の当該有価証券指標の数値(以下この章において「有価証券現実数値」という。)の差に基づいて算出される金銭の授受を約する取引
a transaction comprising the first party's promise to grant the second party the option of effecting any of the following transactions between them by a unilateral manifestation of the second party's intention alone, and the second party's promise to pay the value of that option:
当事者の一方の意思表示により当事者間において次に掲げる取引を成立させることができる権利を相手方が当事者の一方に付与し、当事者の一方がこれに対して対価を支払うことを約する取引
the purchase and sale of securities; or
有価証券の売買
the transactions set forth in (a), (b), (d), and (e) (including a transaction equivalent to the transaction set forth in (b) that is specified by a financial instruments exchange);
イ、ロ、ニ及びホに掲げる取引(ロに掲げる取引に準ずる取引で金融商品取引所の定めるものを含む。)
a transaction comprising the parties' mutual promise that, for the amount of money they have set as the principal, the first party will pay money to the second based on the interest rate, etc. of agreed-upon securities or based on the rate of change in an agreed-upon securities indicator (excluding the interest rate, etc. of securities and numerical values calculated based on them; the same applies in this (d) and (e) of the following item) during the period they have agreed to, and the second party will pay money to the first based on an agreed-upon money rate or the interest rate, etc. of agreed-upon securities, or based on the value of an agreed-upon currency or the rate of change in an agreed-upon securities indicator during the period they have agreed to (including transactions in which the parties promise that, in addition to paying such amounts, they will also deliver and take delivery of money or securities equivalent to the amount they have set as the principal); and
a transaction specified by Cabinet Order which is similar to any of the transactions set forth in (a) through (d);
イからニまでに掲げる取引に類似する取引であつて、政令で定めるもの
the following transactions, among over-the-counter derivatives transactions:
店頭デリバティブ取引のうち、次に掲げる取引
a transaction comprising a purchase and sale in which the parties to the purchase and sale promise to deliver and take delivery of a security (other than one specified by Cabinet Order; hereinafter the same applies in this item) and its value at a fixed time in the future, and which the parties may settle by delivering and taking delivery of the difference in values if they sell back or buy back the underlying security or if they take some other action that is specified by Cabinet Order;
a transaction comprising the parties' promises to pay and receive an amount of money calculated based on the difference between the agreed figure for the securities and the actual figure for the securities, or a transaction similar thereto;
a transaction comprising the first party's promise to grant the second party the option of effecting any of the following transactions between them by a unilateral manifestation of the second party's intention alone, and the other party's promise to pay the value of that option, or any transaction similar thereto:
当事者の一方の意思表示により当事者間において次に掲げる取引を成立させることができる権利を相手方が当事者の一方に付与し、当事者の一方がこれに対して対価を支払うことを約する取引又はこれに類似する取引
the purchase and sale of securities; or
有価証券の売買
the transactions set forth in (a), (b), (e), and (f);
イ、ロ、ホ及びヘに掲げる取引
a transaction comprising, on one side, the first party's promise to grant the second party the option of effecting a transaction by a unilateral manifestation of the second party's intention alone, in which the parties pay and receive the amount of money calculated based on the difference between the numerical value that they have agreed in advance to use as the agreed figure for the relevant securities indicator if the second party manifests the intention to effect the transaction, and the actual figure of the securities indicator at the time the second party manifests that intention, and, on the other side, the second party's promise to pay the value of that option, or any transaction similar thereto;
当事者の一方の意思表示により当事者間において当該意思表示を行う場合の有価証券指標としてあらかじめ約定する数値と現に当該意思表示を行つた時期における現実の当該有価証券指標の数値の差に基づいて算出される金銭を授受することとなる取引を成立させることができる権利を相手方が当事者の一方に付与し、当事者の一方がこれに対して対価を支払うことを約する取引又はこれに類似する取引
a transaction comprising the parties' mutual promise that, for the amount of money they have set as the principal, the first party will pay money to the second based on the interest rate, etc. of agreed-upon securities or based on the rate of change in an agreed-upon securities indicator during the period they have agreed to, and the second party will pay money to the first based on an agreed-upon money rate or the interest rate, etc. of agreed-upon securities, or based on the value of agreed-upon currencies or the rate of change in an agreed-upon securities indicator during the period they have agreed to (including transactions comprising the parties' promise that, in addition to paying such amounts, they will also deliver and take delivery of money or securities equivalent to the amount they have set as the principal), or any transaction similar thereto; and
a transaction, other than what is set forth in (a) through (e), that has an economic nature similar to these, and that is specified by Cabinet Order as a transaction regarding which it is found to be necessary to ensure the public interest or the protection of investors;
イからホまでに掲げるもののほか、これらと同様の経済的性質を有する取引であつて、公益又は投資者の保護を確保することが必要と認められるものとして政令で定める取引
a transaction conducted on a foreign financial instruments market that is similar to a transaction set forth in item (iii);
intermediation, brokerage (excluding brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.), or agency for a transaction set forth in any of the preceding three items (hereinafter referred to as a "securities-related derivatives transactions") or intermediation, brokerage, or agency for the entrustment of a transaction set forth in item (iii) or the preceding item;
前三号に掲げる取引(以下「有価証券関連デリバティブ取引」という。)の媒介、取次ぎ(有価証券等清算取次ぎを除く。)若しくは代理又は第三号若しくは前号に掲げる取引の委託の媒介、取次ぎ若しくは代理
an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (v) that is connected with the purchase and sale of a security, securities-related derivatives transactions, or any other transaction specified by Cabinet Order; or
第二条第八項第五号に掲げる行為であつて、有価証券の売買、有価証券関連デリバティブ取引その他政令で定める取引に係るもの
Subsection 2 Financial Instruments Business Operators
第二款 金融商品取引業者
第二十九条(登録)
A person may not engage in financial instruments business if that person has not been registered by the Prime Minister.
金融商品取引業は、内閣総理大臣の登録を受けた者でなければ、行うことができない。
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The rights that must be indicated on securities set forth in items (i) through (xv) of the preceding paragraph, on securities set forth in item (xvii) of that paragraph…
前項第一号から第十五号までに掲げる有価証券、同項第十七号に掲げる有価証券(同項第十六号に掲げる有価証券の性質を有するものを除く。)及び同項第十八号に掲げる有価証券に表示されるべき権利(同項第十四号に掲げる有価証券及び同項第十七号に掲げる有価証券(同項第十四号に掲げる有価証券の性質を有するものに限る。)に表示されるべき…
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standardized instruments used by a financial instruments exchange for the purpose of facilitating market derivatives transactions by standardizing interest rates, the maturity period…
第一号、第二号若しくは第三号の二に掲げるもの又は前号に掲げるもののうち内閣府令で定めるものについて、金融商品取引所が、市場デリバティブ取引を円滑化するため、利率、償還期限その他の条件を標準化して設定した標準物
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the purchase and sale of securities (excluding those falling under the category of derivatives transactions; the same applies hereinafter), market derivatives transactions…
有価証券の売買(デリバティブ取引に該当するものを除く。以下同じ。)、市場デリバティブ取引(金融商品(第二十四項第三号の三に掲げるものに限る。)又は金融指標(当該金融商品の価格及びこれに基づいて算出した数値に限る。)に係る市場デリバティブ取引(以下「商品関連市場デリバティブ取引」という。)を除く。)又は外国市場デリバテ…
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the purchase and sale of securities or intermediation, brokerage, or agency for it, using an electronic data processing system, conducted through any of the following methods for deciding the trading…
有価証券の売買又はその媒介、取次ぎ若しくは代理であつて、電子情報処理組織を使用して、同時に多数の者を一方の当事者又は各当事者として次に掲げる売買価格の決定方法又はこれに類似する方法により行うもの(取り扱う有価証券の種類等に照らして取引所金融商品市場又は店頭売買有価証券市場(第六十七条第二項に規定する店頭売買有価証券市…
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conclusion of a contract in which one of the parties promises to provide the other party with oral, written (excluding newspapers, magazines, books, or any other written work that is issued for sale…
当事者の一方が相手方に対して次に掲げるものに関し、口頭、文書(新聞、雑誌、書籍その他不特定多数の者に販売することを目的として発行されるもので、不特定多数の者により随時に購入可能なものを除く。)その他の方法により助言を行うことを約し、相手方がそれに対し報酬を支払うことを約する契約(以下「投資顧問契約」という。)を締結し…
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conclusion of the following contracts, and the management of money or any other property (including instructions for that management; the same applies hereinafter), based on such contract…
次に掲げる契約を締結し、当該契約に基づき、金融商品の価値等の分析に基づく投資判断に基づいて有価証券又はデリバティブ取引に係る権利に対する投資として、金銭その他の財産の運用(その指図を含む。以下同じ。)を行うこと。
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agency or intermediation for the conclusion of an investment advisory contract or a discretionary investment contract;
投資顧問契約又は投資一任契約の締結の代理又は媒介
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the management (excluding management that falls under the category of act set forth in item (xii)) of money or other property contributed by a person that holds rights indicated on the securities…
金融商品の価値等の分析に基づく投資判断に基づいて有価証券又はデリバティブ取引に係る権利に対する投資として、第一項第十号に掲げる有価証券に表示される権利その他の政令で定める権利を有する者から拠出を受けた金銭その他の財産の運用を行うこと(第十二号に掲げる行為に該当するものを除く。)。
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the management (excluding management that falls under the category of act set forth in item (xii) or the preceding item) of money or other property invested or contributed by a person that holds the…
金融商品の価値等の分析に基づく投資判断に基づいて主として有価証券又はデリバティブ取引に係る権利に対する投資として、次に掲げる権利その他政令で定める権利を有する者から出資又は拠出を受けた金銭その他の財産の運用を行うこと(第十二号及び前号に掲げる行為に該当するものを除く。)。
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the acceptance of deposits of money, the instruments or certificates set forth in the items of paragraph (1), or electronically recorded transferable rights from customers…
その行う第一号から第十号までに掲げる行為に関して、顧客から金銭、第一項各号に掲げる証券若しくは証書又は電子記録移転権利の預託を受けること(商品関連市場デリバティブ取引についての第二号、第三号又は第五号に掲げる行為を行う場合にあつては、これらの行為に関して、顧客から商品(第二十四項第三号の三に掲げるものをいう。以下この…
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the transfer of bonds, shares, etc. in response to the opening of an account in order to carry out a transfer of the bonds, shares, etc. defined in Article 2…
社債、株式等の振替に関する法律(平成十三年法律第七十五号)第二条第一項に規定する社債等の振替を行うために口座の開設を受けて社債等の振替を行うこと。
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acts specified by Cabinet Order as being similar to the acts set forth in the preceding items.
前各号に掲げる行為に類するものとして政令で定める行為
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intermediation, brokerage (excluding brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.), or agency for the purchase and sale of securities, market derivatives transactions…
有価証券の売買、市場デリバティブ取引又は外国市場デリバティブ取引の媒介、取次ぎ(有価証券等清算取次ぎを除く。)又は代理(有価証券の売買の媒介、取次ぎ又は代理にあつては、第十号に掲げるものを除く。)
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intermediation, brokerage, or agency for entrustment of the following transactions:
次に掲げる取引の委託の媒介、取次ぎ又は代理
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over-the-counter derivatives transactions or intermediation, brokerage (excluding brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.), or agency for them…
店頭デリバティブ取引又はその媒介、取次ぎ(有価証券等清算取次ぎを除く。)若しくは代理(以下「店頭デリバティブ取引等」という。)
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brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.;
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the underwriting of securities (meaning doing any of the things set forth in an item of paragraph (6) at the time of a public offering, secondary distribution, private placement of securities, or…
有価証券の引受け(有価証券の募集若しくは売出し又は私募若しくは特定投資家向け売付け勧誘等に際し、第六項各号に掲げるもののいずれかを行うことをいう。)
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the public offering or private placement of securities (limited to those set forth in the following items):
有価証券(次に掲げるものに限る。)の募集又は私募
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secondary distribution of securities or solicitation for selling, etc. only for professional investors;
有価証券の売出し又は特定投資家向け売付け勧誘等
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the handling of a public offering or secondary distribution of securities, or the handling of a private placement of securities or solicitation for selling, etc. only for professional investors;
有価証券の募集若しくは売出しの取扱い又は私募若しくは特定投資家向け売付け勧誘等の取扱い
Open this provisionan act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (i) through (iii), item (v), item (viii), or item (ix) with regard to securities…
有価証券(第二条第二項の規定により有価証券とみなされる同項各号に掲げる権利(電子記録移転権利を除く。次項第二号及び第六十四条第一項第一号において同じ。)を除く。)についての第二条第八項第一号から第三号まで、第五号、第八号又は第九号に掲げる行為
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商品関連市場デリバティブ取引についての第二条第八項第二号、第三号又は第五号に掲げる行為
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第二条第八項第四号に掲げる行為又は店頭デリバティブ取引についての同項第五号に掲げる行為
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第二条第八項第十六号又は第十七号に掲げる行為
Open this provisionan act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (i) through (iii), item (v), item (viii), or item (ix) with regard to rights set forth in the items of Article 2…
第二条第二項の規定により有価証券とみなされる同項各号に掲げる権利についての同条第八項第一号から第三号まで、第五号、第八号又は第九号に掲げる行為
Open this provisionan act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xi); or
第二条第八項第十一号に掲げる行為
Open this provisionthe conclusion of a contract stipulating that if no other person acquires all or part of the relevant securities, the underwriter will acquire those that remain from the issuer or holder;
当該有価証券の全部又は一部につき他にこれを取得する者がない場合にその残部を発行者又は所有者から取得することを内容とする契約をすること。
Open this provisionthe conclusion of a contract, if the relevant securities are share option certificates (including the securities specified by Cabinet Office Order as being equivalent to them; hereinafter the same…
当該有価証券が新株予約権証券(これに準ずるものとして内閣府令で定める有価証券を含む。以下この号において同じ。)である場合において、当該新株予約権証券を取得した者が当該新株予約権証券の全部又は一部につき新株予約権(これに準ずるものとして内閣府令で定める権利を含む。以下この号において同じ。)を行使しないときに当該行使しな…
Open this provisionthe following transactions, among market derivatives transactions:
市場デリバティブ取引のうち、次に掲げる取引
Open this provisionthe following transactions, among over-the-counter derivatives transactions:
店頭デリバティブ取引のうち、次に掲げる取引
Open this provisiona transaction conducted on a foreign financial instruments market that is similar to a transaction set forth in item (iii);
外国金融商品市場において行う取引であつて、第三号に掲げる取引と類似の取引
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the following acts involving securities (excluding rights set forth in the items of Article 2, paragraph (2) that are deemed to be securities pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph):
有価証券(第二条第二項の規定により有価証券とみなされる同項各号に掲げる権利を除く。)に係る次に掲げる行為
Open this provisionsecurities
「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
electronically recorded transferable rights
「電子記録移転権利」
Rights deemed to be securities under the items of Article 2, paragraph (2), such as beneficial interests in trusts and rights under partnership and similar contracts, where they are represented by property value that can be transferred using an electronic data processing system (limited to value recorded electronically on an electronic device or other object), except in cases a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) sets in view of their transferability and other circumstances.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (3)
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)
cooperative financial institution
「協同組織金融機関」
A cooperative financial institution as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Preferred Equity Investment by Cooperative Structured Financial Institution: the Norinchukin Bank (農林中央金庫), credit cooperatives (信用協同組合), shinkin banks (信用金庫) and labour banks (労働金庫), and agricultural, fishery and fishery processing cooperatives that carry on credit business, together with their federations.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (8)
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
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)
foreign financial instruments market
「外国金融商品市場」
A market located in a foreign state that is similar to a financial instruments exchange market (取引所金融商品市場).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (8), item (iii), (b)
financial 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
registered financial institutionmachine translation
「登録金融機関」
A bank, cooperative financial institution (協同組織金融機関) or other financial institution a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies that is registered under Article 33-2.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (11)
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
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
interest rate, etc.machine translation
「利率等」
An interest rate, or another rate that a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies as equivalent to one.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (21), item (iv)
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
brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.machine translation
「有価証券等清算取次ぎ」
A subject transaction (対象取引) that a financial instruments business operator or registered financial institution carries out on a customer's entrustment and for the customer's account under the business rules of a financial instruments clearing organization or a foreign one, on condition that the clearing organization takes on the obligations arising from it, and in which either the customer concludes the transaction as the firm's agent or the customer specifies the counterparty and other matters a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) sets when entrusting it.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (27)· applies throughout the law
type-I financial instruments business
「第一種金融商品取引業」
The part of financial instruments business (金融商品取引業) that consists of carrying on, as a business, any of the acts listed in Article 28, paragraph (1), such as dealing in securities (other than most rights treated as securities) and brokerage for them, over-the-counter derivatives transactions, the underwriting of securities, and trading securities through an electronic system as Article 2, paragraph (8), item (x) describes.
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
type-II financial instruments business
「第二種金融商品取引業」
In Chapter III, the part of financial instruments business (金融商品取引業) that consists of carrying on, as a business, any of the acts listed in Article 28, paragraph (2), such as the public offering or private placement of the securities set out in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (vii), and dealing in and brokerage for rights treated as securities under Article 2, paragraph (2).
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (2)· applies only in this chapter
investment advisory and agency business
「投資助言・代理業」
In Chapter III, the part of financial instruments business (金融商品取引業) that consists in carrying on as a business either giving advice under an investment advisory contract (投資顧問契約) (Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xi)) or acting as agent or intermediary in concluding an investment advisory contract or a discretionary investment contract (投資一任契約) (item (xiii)).
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (3)· applies only in this chapter
investment management business
「投資運用業」
Investment management business as defined in Article 28, paragraph (4): the part of financial instruments business (金融商品取引業) that consists in carrying on as a business the acts in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (xii), (xiv) and (xv) — managing money or other property, on investment decisions (投資判断) based on an analysis of the value, etc. of financial instruments, as an investment in securities or in rights under derivatives transactions, whether under a discretionary investment contract (投資一任契約) or an asset management contract with a registered investment corporation (登録投資法人), or for the holders of the rights items (xiv) and (xv) list who contributed it — including where a bank, a cooperative financial institution or another financial institution a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies carries them on.
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (4)· applies only in this chapter
securities, etc. management
「有価証券等管理業務」
In Chapter III, the part of type-I financial instruments business made up of the acts in Article 28, paragraph (1), item (v): taking deposits of money, securities or electronically recorded transferable rights from customers in connection with one's dealings in securities and derivatives (Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xvi)), and transferring corporate bonds, shares and the like through book-entry accounts (item (xvii) of that paragraph).
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (5)· applies only in this chapter
investment advisory business
「投資助言業務」
Within investment advisory and agency business (投資助言・代理業), the services connected with giving advice under an investment advisory contract (投資顧問契約) — the act in Article 28, paragraph (3), item (i).
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (6)· applies only in this chapter
wholesale underwriting of securities
「有価証券の元引受け」
In Chapter III, an underwriting of securities (Article 2, paragraph (8), item (vi)) that takes one of these forms: acquiring all or part of the securities from their issuer or holder in order to have others acquire them; contracting with the issuer or holder to acquire whatever part of the securities no one else acquires; or, for share option certificates, contracting with the issuer or holder to acquire the certificates whose options their acquirers do not exercise and to exercise those options oneself or have a third party do so.
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (7)· applies only in this chapter
securities services
「有価証券関連業」
In Chapter III, carrying on as a business any of these: buying and selling securities, or intermediating, brokering (other than brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.) or acting as agent in such trades; intermediating, brokering or acting as agent for entrustments of securities trades on a financial instruments exchange market or a foreign financial instruments market; securities-related market and over-the-counter derivatives transactions, similar transactions on foreign markets, and intermediation, brokerage or agency for them; brokerage for clearing of securities trades and securities-related derivatives transactions; and underwriting, secondary distributions, and handling public offerings, secondary distributions and private placements of securities (Article 28, paragraph (8), items (i) to (viii)).
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (8)· applies only in this chapter
actual figure for the securitiesmachine translation
「有価証券現実数値」
In Chapter III, the actual value of a securities indicator at a set time in the future, the difference between which and the agreed figure for the securities (有価証券約定数値) gives the money paid and received in a transaction under Article 28, paragraph (8), item (iii), (b).
Short name set inArticle 28, paragraph (8), item (iii), (b)· applies only in this chapter
agreed figure for the securitiesmachine translation
「有価証券約定数値」
In Chapter III, the value of a securities indicator that the parties agree on in advance, the difference between which and the actual figure for the securities (有価証券現実数値) at a set future time gives the money paid and received in a transaction under Article 28, paragraph (8), item (iii), (b).
Short name set inArticle 28, paragraph (8), item (iii), (b)· applies only in this chapter
securities-related derivatives transactions
「有価証券関連デリバティブ取引」
The transactions listed in Article 28, paragraph (8), items (iii) to (v): market derivatives transactions and over-the-counter derivatives transactions based on securities or securities indicators — futures, forwards, index-difference, option and swap transactions and similar ones a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies — and similar transactions on foreign financial instruments markets.
Short name set inArticle 28, paragraph (8), item (vi)
manifestation of intention
意思表示
A person's expression of an intention to which the law gives a legal effect, such as an offer to conclude a contract, which shows its terms and forms the contract once the other party accepts it (Civil Code, Article 522, paragraph (1)), the acceptance itself (Article 527), or the notice to the other party by which a party rescinds (取消し) an act or cancels (解除) a contract (Articles 123 and 540, paragraph (1)). One made to another person takes effect when notice of it reaches that person, or when it would normally have reached them if they blocked it without good reason (Article 97, paragraphs (1) and (2)), and does not lose its effect because the person who made it dies, loses mental capacity (意思能力) or comes under legal limits on what they can do alone after sending the notice (Article 97, paragraph (3)); where the person making it cannot find out who the other party is or where they are, it can be made by public notice (Article 98, paragraph (1)). It is not void just because the person making it knew it was not their true intention, unless the other party knew or could have known that (Article 93, paragraph (1)); a false one made in collusion with the other party is void (Article 94, paragraph (1)); and neither voidness can be asserted against a third party who did not know of it (善意) (Articles 93, paragraph (2), and 94, paragraph (2)). One based on a mistake that is material in light of the purpose of the juridical act (法律行為) and accepted views in dealings may be rescinded — one based on a mistaken view of the circumstances behind the act only if it had been shown that the act was based on them, and as a rule not where the mistake came from the gross negligence of the person who made it (Article 95, paragraphs (1) to (3)) — and so may one made under fraud or duress, though one induced by a third party's fraud only if the other party knew of the fraud or could have known of it (Article 96, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a rescission for mistake or fraud cannot be relied on against a third party who did not know and was not careless in not knowing (Article 95, paragraph (4), and Article 96, paragraph (3)). One that an agent makes within the agent's authority, showing that it is made for the principal, takes effect directly for the principal (Article 99, paragraph (1)). The Consumer Contract Act lets a consumer rescind an offer or acceptance of a consumer contract made because the business, when soliciting it, told them something untrue about an important matter and they believed it, among other grounds (Consumer Contract Act, Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)), and the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions does the same where, in a door-to-door sale, the seller or service provider told them something untrue about such matters as the goods or the price (Article 6, paragraph (1), and Article 9-3, paragraph (1), item (i)).
Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 123, 522, 527, 540, Consumer Contract Act, Art. 4 and Act on Specified Commercial Transactions, Arts. 6, 9-3 as a reference.
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.