If a financial instruments business operator, etc. conducts a transaction set forth in any of the following items, it must have the person prescribed in the relevant item bear its obligations and the counterparty's obligations from that transaction:

①A financial instruments clearing organization, etc. (meaning a financial instruments clearing organization or foreign financial instruments clearing organization; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, provide data on centrally cleared trades to a trade repository (meaning a person that has been designated under the provisions of Article 156-67, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter) or a designated foreign trade repository (meaning a person that conducts the same kind of business as a trade repository business (meaning a business concerning the collection and preservation of trade data; the same applies hereinafter) in a foreign country that is designated by the Prime Minister as a person from whom the Prime Minister expects to obtain trade data that has been collected and preserved by that person; the same applies in the following paragraph and the following Article).

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if a financial instruments clearing organization, etc. is unable to provide data on centrally cleared trades to a trade repository or designated foreign trade repository due to a disaster or other compelling reasons specified by Cabinet Office Order, the financial instruments clearing organization, etc. must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, prepare and preserve records concerning the particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order with regard to data on centrally cleared trades, and must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, report the data on centrally cleared trades it has preserved to the Prime Minister.

③The term "trade data" as used in paragraph (1) and this paragraph means data on trades specified by Cabinet Office Order as data for which the status of transactions by a financial instruments business operator, etc. is required to be made clear for the protection of investors, and the term "data on centrally cleared trades" as used in the preceding two paragraphs means trade data concerning transactions for which a financial instruments clearing organization, etc. bears obligations, which is related to the trade specified by Cabinet Office Order in consideration of the transactions set forth in the items of the preceding Article and the status of transactions, etc.

①A financial instruments business operator, etc. must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, provide data on non-centrally cleared trades (meaning trade data (meaning the trade data prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter), excluding data on centrally cleared trades (meaning the data on centrally cleared trades prescribed in that paragraph; the same applies in Article 198-6, item (xvii)-2-2); the same applies in the following paragraph and that item) to a trade repository or designated foreign trade repository.

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if a financial instruments business operator, etc. is unable to provide data on non-centrally cleared trades to a trade repository or designated foreign trade repository due to a disaster or other compelling reasons specified by Cabinet Office Order, the financial instruments business operator, etc. must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, prepare records on the particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order with regard to data on non-centrally cleared trades and preserve those records, and pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, report the data on non-centrally cleared trades it has preserved to the Prime Minister.

①A trade repository must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, prepare records on the particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order with regard to the trade data that has been provided based on the provisions of Article 156-63, paragraph (1) and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and preserve those records.

②A trade repository must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, report the trade data it has preserved based on the provisions of the preceding paragraph to the Prime Minister.

③If a trade repository, in lieu of making a report under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, takes measures to enable the Prime Minister to inspect the trade data that is subject to the report under the provisions of that paragraph by means of using an electronic data processing system which is specified by Cabinet Office Order, the trade repository is deemed to have made the report.

①A trade repository must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, publicize the size of the trade and other particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order with regard to the trades related to the trade data that is subject to the reporting under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article.

②The Prime Minister is to publicize the size of the transaction and other necessary particulars for making clear the outline of the transaction with regard to the transactions related to the trade data reported under the provisions of Article 156-63, paragraph (2) or Article 156-64, paragraph (2).

①At the application of an entity satisfying the following requirements, the Prime Minister may designate that entity as an entity that conducts trade repository business pursuant to the provisions of this Section:

②Upon making a designation under the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister must make public notice of the trade name or name and the location of the principal business office or office of the trade repository, and of the day on which the Prime Minister made that designation, in the Official Gazette.

①An entity seeking designation under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article must submit a written application for designation stating the following particulars to the Prime Minister:

②The following documents must be attached to the written application for designation referred to in the preceding paragraph:

③In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the articles of incorporation, inventory of property, balance sheet, profit and loss statement or income statement, or business report has been prepared as an electronic or magnetic record, the electronic or magnetic record may be attached to the written application for designation in lieu of a written document.