Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act
外国為替及び外国貿易法
Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 137 terms: 50 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 87 in our translation, marked as such.
居住者
A natural person with a domicile or residence in Japan, or a corporation with its principal office in Japan; a Japanese branch, sales office or other office of a non-resident is also treated as a resident, even if its principal office is in a foreign country and whether or not it has legal authority to act for it.
本邦内に住所又は居所を有する自然人及び本邦内に主たる事務所を有する法人
非居住者
A natural person or corporation other than a resident (居住者).
居住者以外の自然人及び法人
貨物
Movable property other than precious metals (貴金属), means of payment (支払手段), and securities (証券) and other certificates embodying claims.
貴金属、支払手段及び証券その他債権を化体する証書以外の動産
An inward direct investment or equivalent action as defined in Article 26, paragraph (2) — an act of a foreign investor such as acquiring shares or equity in an unlisted company, acquiring shares or voting rights in a listed or equivalent company (上場会社等) that bring a holding to at least a percentage a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, consenting to a major change in a company's business, setting up a branch in Japan, lending a large sum for more than a year to a corporation with its principal office in Japan, or taking over a business from a Japanese corporation — other than one a Cabinet Order excludes in view of inheritance, bequest, corporate merger or other circumstances.
前条第二項に規定する対内直接投資等をいい、相続、遺贈、法人の合併その他の事情を勘案して政令で定めるものを除く
A specified acquisition as defined in Article 26, paragraph (3) — acquiring shares or equity in a company other than a listed or equivalent company (上場会社等) by transfer from a non-resident individual, a foreign corporation or another of the persons listed in Article 26, paragraph (1) — other than one a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes in view of inheritance, bequest, corporate merger or other circumstances.
第二十六条第三項に規定する特定取得をいい、相続、遺贈、法人の合併その他の事情を勘案して政令で定めるものを除く
本邦
Japan for the purposes of this Act and the orders under it: Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu and the islands attached to them that an Order of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (財務省令・経済産業省令) sets.
本州、北海道、四国、九州及び財務省令・経済産業省令で定めるその附属の島
In Article 21, Article 22, paragraph (1), Article 55-3 and Article 70, paragraph (1), a capital transaction as defined in Article 20 — such as claims arising under deposit, loan or guarantee contracts between a resident and a non-resident, buying or selling securities between them, issuing securities across borders, and acquiring real estate across borders — other than a specified capital transaction (特定資本取引) under Article 24, paragraph (1).
第二十条に規定する資本取引をいい、第二十四条第一項に規定する特定資本取引に該当するものを除く
A bank (銀行) or another financial institution a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
A resident's conclusion or renewal of, or other change to the terms of, a contract with a non-resident for the non-resident's transfer of industrial property rights or other rights relating to technology, grant of a right to use them, or guidance on technology for running a business.
外国投資家
A foreign investor as defined in Article 26, paragraph (1): a non-resident individual, a corporation or other body set up under foreign law or with its principal office abroad, or a company, partnership or other body controlled by such persons as that paragraph sets out, that makes an inward direct investment or equivalent action (対内直接投資等) or a specified acquisition (特定取得).
前条第一項に規定する外国投資家
証券
Public bonds, corporate bonds, shares, equity interests, certificates giving rights to public bonds or shares, debentures, treasury securities, mortgage securities, profit certificates, coupons, dividend receipts, coupon exchange tickets and other similar securities or certificates a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, whether or not a certificate has been issued.
券面が発行されていると否とを問わず、公債、社債、株式、出資の持分、公債又は株式に関する権利を与える証書、債券、国庫証券、抵当証券、利潤証券、利札、配当金受領証、利札引換券その他これらに類する証券又は証書として政令で定めるもの
Technology for designing, manufacturing or using particular kinds of goods, which a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as technology whose provision is found to interfere with the maintenance of international peace and security.
A capital transaction of the kind in Article 20, item (ii) — a transaction under a money loan or debt guarantee contract between a resident and a non-resident, including one a Cabinet Order (政令) treats as equivalent under item (xii) — that a Cabinet Order specifies as made by an exporter or importer directly in connection with exporting or importing goods, or as connected with transferring, or granting a right to use, a mining right, industrial property right or similar right, other than one a Cabinet Order specifies as settling a short-term international commercial transaction.
第二十条第二号に掲げる資本取引（同条第十二号の規定により同条第二号に準ずる取引として政令で定めるものを含む。）のうち、貨物を輸出し、又は輸入する者が貨物の輸出又は輸入に直接伴つてする取引又は行為として政令で定めるもの及び鉱業権、工業所有権その他これらに類する権利の移転又はこれらの権利の使用権の設定に係る取引又は行為として政令で定めるもの（短期の国際商業取引の決済のための取引として政令で定めるものを除く。）
This Act as it stood before Act No. 59 of 1997 amended it.
Any of the businesses in the left-hand column of the table in Article 16-2, paragraph (1): electronic payment instruments service providers (電子決済手段等取引業者), electronic payment handling service providers (電子決済等取扱業者) and their counterparts for shinkin banks and credit cooperatives, and cryptoasset exchange service providers (暗号資産交換業者).
次の表の上欄に掲げる者
A resident's acquisition of securities issued by, or loan of money to, a corporation set up under foreign law that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as made to establish a lasting economic relationship with that corporation, or a resident's payment of funds to set up or expand a branch, factory or other place of business in a foreign country.
居住者による外国法令に基づいて設立された法人の発行に係る証券の取得若しくは当該法人に対する金銭の貸付けであつて当該法人との間に永続的な経済関係を樹立するために行われるものとして政令で定めるもの又は外国における支店、工場その他の事業所（以下「支店等」という。）の設置若しくは拡張に係る資金の支払
This Act as amended by Act No. 59 of 1997.
財産
Assets, including means of payment (支払手段), electronic payment instruments (電子決済手段等), precious metals (貴金属), securities (証券), claims (債権) and goods (貨物).
第七号、第九号から第十一号まで、第十三号及び前号に規定するものを含む財産
A funds transfer transaction (為替取引) a bank or other prescribed financial institution (銀行等) carries out for a customer's payment from Japan to a foreign country or for a payment between the customer and a non-resident (unless the customer is itself a non-resident), other than one for a small payment of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) sets.
A transaction by which a claim (債権) arises, is altered or is extinguished: in Article 20, item (i), one under a deposit contract (預金契約) or trust contract between a resident and a non-resident, and in later provisions, one under the contracts they name.
国の安全等に係る対内直接投資等
An inward direct investment or equivalent action (対内直接投資等) of any of the kinds Article 27, paragraph (3) lists: one likely to harm national security, disturb public order or hinder public safety, or to seriously harm the smooth running of Japan's economy, where no treaty obligation to remove restrictions covers it; one by an investor from a country with no investment treaty with Japan that must be changed or stopped to match the treatment Japanese investors receive there; or one that must be changed or stopped because it amounts, in whole or part, to a capital transaction (資本取引) requiring permission under Article 21.
This Act as it stood before Act No. 40 of 1991 amended it.
外国通貨
A funds transfer service provider as defined in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Payment Services Act, including a person deemed one under Article 37-2, paragraph (2) of that Act.
資金決済に関する法律第二条第三項に規定する資金移動業者をいい、同法第三十七条の二第二項の規定により資金移動業者とみなされる者を含む
The act the table in Article 16-2, paragraph (1) sets against each kind of electronic payment instruments service provider, etc. (電子決済手段等取引業者等): for an electronic payment instruments service provider, a transfer of electronic payment instruments (電子決済手段) for certain payments between its customers and customers of itself or of another provider at home or abroad, or in other cases a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, or the act in Article 2, paragraph (10), item (iv) of the Payment Services Act; for an electronic payment handling service provider and its counterparts for shinkin banks and credit cooperatives, the act in item (i) of the provision of the Banking Act, Shinkin Bank Act or Act on Financial Businesses by Cooperative that lists their business; and for a cryptoasset exchange service provider, a transfer of cryptoassets (暗号資産) for such payments or in other cases a Cabinet Order sets.
同表の上欄に掲げる者の区分に応じそれぞれ同表の下欄に定める行為
A specified acquisition (特定取得) highly likely to harm national security, limited to one made by a foreign investor from a country party to a multilateral treaty or other international agreement on specified acquisitions that Japan has joined and a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, where that agreement imposes no obligation to remove restrictions on it, or by a foreign investor from another country where there would be no such obligation if that country were a party.
支払手段
Banknotes, government notes and coins; cheques (including traveller's cheques), bills of exchange, postal money orders and letters of credit; property value recorded electronically on a voucher, device or other object that can be used to pay unspecified or many persons and that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as used much as currency is; and other things a Cabinet Order treats as equivalent to the first two groups.
次に掲げるもの
A particular foreign country in which providing specified technology (特定技術), or providing it to that country's non-residents, requires permission from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry under Article 25, paragraph (1), as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides.
A partnership — a voluntary partnership (任意組合), an investment limited partnership (投資事業有限責任組合) or a similar organization set up under foreign law — in which non-resident individuals or others a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies contribute 50% or more of the total contributions, or make up a majority of the managing partners.
Short name for the law on foreign capital (外資に関する法律) that Act No. 65 of 1979 abolished, as it stood before that abolition.
The date Act No. 40 of 1991, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Gold bullion, bullion of gold alloys, gold coins not in circulation, and other things made mainly of gold.
金の地金、金の合金の地金、流通していない金貨その他金を主たる材料とする物
債権
Time deposits, current deposits, special current deposits, deposits at notice, insurance policies and current account balances, and other monetary claims arising from loans, tenders or otherwise that are not covered by the earlier items of Article 6, paragraph (1).
定期預金、当座預金、特別当座預金、通知預金、保険証券及び当座勘定残高並びに貸借、入札その他により生ずる金銭債権で前各号に掲げられていないもの
A bank or other prescribed financial institution's (銀行等) check of a customer's identifying information (本人特定事項) by having a driver's licence shown or by another method a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) sets.
A branch, factory or other place of business, as Article 23, paragraph (2) names them for those in a foreign country.
A company that has issued shares listed on a financial instruments exchange (金融商品取引所) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (16) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, or shares a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as equivalent to listed shares.
This Act as it stood before Act No. 89 of 1987 amended it.
対外支払手段
A means of payment (支払手段), other than Japanese currency, that is denominated in a foreign currency or can be used for payment in a foreign country, whatever its currency unit.
外国通貨その他通貨の単位のいかんにかかわらず、外国通貨をもつて表示され、又は外国において支払のために使用することのできる支払手段（本邦通貨を除く。）
In Article 22-2 and Article 55-3, a financial instruments business operator as defined in Article 2, paragraph (9) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act that carries on Type I Financial Instruments Business (第一種金融商品取引業) under Article 28, paragraph (1) of that Act or Type II Financial Instruments Business (第二種金融商品取引業) under paragraph (2) of that Article.
金融商品取引法第二条第九項に規定する金融商品取引業者であつて、同法第二十八条第一項に規定する第一種金融商品取引業を行う者及び同条第二項に規定する第二種金融商品取引業を行う者
A service transaction (役務取引) a resident carries out with a non-resident, other than one relating to specified technology (特定技術) or amounting to an entry into, renewal or modification of a technology introduction contract (技術導入契約の締結等), or a transaction for the sale, lease or gift of goods that involves moving goods between foreign countries, other than one under Article 25, paragraph (4).
外国投資家
In Article 28-2, a foreign investor as defined in Article 26, paragraph (1) — a non-resident individual, a corporation or other body set up under foreign law or with its principal office abroad, or a company, partnership or other body controlled by such persons as that paragraph sets out — other than one that has violated this Act, an order under it or a disposition under either, or another a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as having a high need to be examined under Article 28, paragraph (3).
第二十六条第一項に規定する外国投資家をいい、この法律、この法律に基づく命令又はこれらに基づく処分に違反したものその他の前条第三項の規定による審査を行う必要性が高いものとして政令で定めるものを除く
A resident's acquisition of securities issued by, or loan of money to, a corporation set up under foreign law that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as made to establish a lasting economic relationship with that corporation, or a resident's payment of funds to set up or expand a branch, factory or other place of business in a foreign country.
第二十三条第二項に規定する対外直接投資
The standards an order of the competent ministry (主務省令) sets under Article 55-9-2, paragraph (1) for foreign exchange transactions service providers (外国為替取引等取扱業者) to follow when carrying out payments, funds transfer transactions, capital transactions and specified capital transactions, covering what they need to check whether these are ones that require permission under this Act.
The standards an Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業省令) sets under Article 55-10, paragraph (1) for exporters and persons conducting similar transactions (輸出者等) to follow when they carry out those exports and transactions.
外国執行当局
In Article 69-5, a foreign authority that enforces foreign laws and regulations equivalent to this Act's rules in Articles 27 and 28 on prior notification of inward direct investment and specified acquisitions, to which the Minister of Finance and the competent minister for the business (事業所管大臣) may give information that helps it carry out duties equivalent to theirs under those Articles.
This Act as amended by Act No. 89 of 1987.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 59 of 1997, a capital transaction as defined in Article 20 of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act as it stood before that Act amended it.
旧法第二十条に規定する資本取引
Electronic payment instruments (電子決済手段) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Payment Services Act, and cryptoassets (暗号資産) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (14) of that Act.
次に掲げるもの
本人特定事項
The details a bank or other prescribed financial institution (銀行等) must verify about a customer: for a natural person, name, domicile or residence and date of birth — for a foreign national without a domicile or residence in Japan of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, the matters a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) sets in place of domicile or residence — and for a corporation, its name and the location of its principal office.
An account that a bank or other financial institution a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies sets up with the Minister of Finance's approval to keep the accounts of the transactions listed in Article 21, paragraph (3) — by which it raises funds from non-residents, such as deposits, and uses them with non-residents, such as loans to them or buying their securities — separately from its other accounts.
銀行その他の政令で定める金融機関が、非居住者（外国法令に基づいて設立された法人その他政令で定める者に限る。以下この項及び次項において同じ。）から受け入れた預金その他の非居住者から調達した資金を非居住者に対する金銭の貸付け、非居住者からの証券の取得その他の非居住者との間での運用に充てるために行う次に掲げる取引又は行為（前条の規定により資本取引とみなされるものを除く。）に係る資金の運用又は調達に関する経理をその他の取引又は行為に係る資金の運用又は調達に関する経理と区分して整理するため財務大臣の承認を受けて設ける勘定
A document, drawing or recording medium in which information on specified technology (特定技術) is written or recorded.
Sending, passing on or receiving signs, sounds or images by wire, radio or other electromagnetic means, as defined in Article 2(i) of the Telecommunications Business Act.
電気通信事業法（昭和五十九年法律第八十六号）第二条第一号に規定する電気通信
外国投資家
In Article 27-2, a foreign investor as defined in Article 26, paragraph (1) — a non-resident individual, a corporation or other body set up under foreign law or with its principal office abroad, or a company, partnership or other body controlled by such persons as that paragraph sets out — other than one that has violated this Act, an order under it or a disposition under either, or another a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as having a high need to be examined under Article 27, paragraph (3).
第二十六条第一項に規定する外国投資家をいい、この法律、この法律に基づく命令又はこれらに基づく処分に違反したものその他の前条第三項の規定による審査を行う必要性が高いものとして政令で定めるものを除く
違反者
In Article 53, paragraphs (3) and (4), a person who exported goods under Article 48, paragraph (1) without the permission it requires, or who violated this Act, an order under it or a disposition under either in relation to exporting or importing goods.
第一項に規定する第四十八条第一項の規定による許可を受けないで同項に規定する貨物の輸出をした者又は前項に規定する貨物の輸出若しくは輸入に関し、この法律、この法律に基づく命令若しくはこれらに基づく処分に違反した者
In Article 55-3, a resident that is a party to a capital transaction (資本取引) listed in Article 55-3, paragraph (1), item (iv) or (xi) and has notified the Minister of Finance, as a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) provides, that it wishes the other parties to such transactions with it to be spared the report under that paragraph, giving its name, address and other matters that Order sets.
第一項第四号又は第十一号に掲げる資本取引の当事者となる居住者であつて、財務省令で定めるところにより自己のこれらの資本取引の相手方となる者の同項の規定による報告を要しないこととしたい旨並びにその氏名又は名称及び住所その他の財務省令で定める事項を財務大臣に届け出たもの
A bank or other form of financial enterprise (銀行等その他の金融機関等), funds transfer service provider (資金移動業者) or currency exchange operator (両替業者) that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as having a particular need to set up systems for checking whether the payments and transactions it handles are among those Article 55-9-2, paragraph (2) lists, such as payments and capital transactions that require permission under this Act.
A person that carries out, as a business, the transactions under Article 25, paragraph (1) or the exports under Article 48, paragraph (1) (輸出等).
In Article 69-5, paragraph (4), criminal proceedings conducted by a court or judge in a foreign country.
旧法の規定による届出に係る技術導入契約の締結等
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 40 of 1991, an entry into, renewal or modification of a technology introduction contract notified before that Act came into effect under Article 29, paragraph (1) of this Act as it stood before that Act amended it.
This Act as amended by Act No. 40 of 1991.
In Article 4, paragraph (2) and Article 5 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 59 of 1997, a capital transaction subject to prior review under the former Act (旧法事前審査対象資本取引) for which, before that Act came into effect, the period during which it could not be carried out under Article 23, paragraph (1) of this Act as it then stood had ended, notice had been given of accepting a recommendation to change its content under Article 23, paragraph (5) of that wording, or a change to its content had been ordered under paragraph (7) of that Article.
In Articles 4 and 5 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 59 of 1997, a capital transaction (資本取引) notified before that Act came into effect under Article 22, paragraph (1) of this Act as it stood before that Act amended it, to which Article 23, paragraph (1) of that former wording applied, and which had not yet been carried out when that Act came into effect.
This Act as amended by Act No. 60 of 2019.
A security (証券) that is payable in a foreign country or denominated in a foreign currency.
外国において支払を受けることができる証券又は外国通貨をもつて表示される証券
A contract for a market derivatives transaction or over-the-counter derivatives transaction under Article 2, paragraph (21) or (22) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (other than those a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes), for a transaction like a market derivatives transaction on a foreign financial instruments market, or for another similar transaction a Cabinet Order specifies.
金融商品取引法（昭和二十三年法律第二十五号）第二条第二十一項に規定する市場デリバティブ取引（政令で定めるものを除く。以下この号において同じ。）、同条第二十二項に規定する店頭デリバティブ取引（政令で定めるものを除く。）及び同条第八項第三号ロに規定する外国金融商品市場において行われる同条第二十一項に規定する市場デリバティブ取引に類する取引その他これらに類する取引として政令で定める取引に係る契約
An electronic payment instruments service provider as defined in Article 2, paragraph (12) of the Payment Services Act, including a person deemed one under Article 62-8, paragraph (2) of that Act.
資金決済に関する法律第二条第十二項に規定する電子決済手段等取引業者をいい、同法第六十二条の八第二項の規定により電子決済手段等取引業者とみなされる者を含む
In Articles 18 and 18-2, the natural person actually handling a specified funds transfer transaction (特定為替取引) with a bank or other prescribed financial institution (銀行等) where that person is not the customer itself, as when a company's representative carries out the transaction for the company.
電子決済手段等の移転を求める権利の発生等に係る取引
In Article 20-2, a transaction by which a right to request the transfer of electronic payment instruments (電子決済手段等) arises, is altered or is extinguished: in item (i), one under a contract between a resident and a non-resident for managing them, and in the later items, one under the contracts they name.
銀行等その他の金融機関等
In Article 22-2, paragraph (2) and Article 55-9-2, paragraph (1), banks or other prescribed financial institutions (銀行等), trust companies (信託会社), financial instruments business operators (金融商品取引業者) and electronic payment instruments service providers, etc. (電子決済手段等取引業者等), taken together.
A transaction whose purpose is to provide labour or a benefit.
労務又は便益の提供を目的とする取引
In Article 25-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 70, paragraph (1), item (xix), sending information on technology for designing, manufacturing or using goods (貨物設計等技術) by telecommunications (電気通信) to be received in a foreign country.
In Article 25-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 70, paragraph (1), item (xix), exporting a document, drawing or recording medium containing information on technology for designing, manufacturing or using goods (貨物設計等技術) in connection with a transaction to provide that technology in a foreign country or to a non-resident.
In Article 26, paragraph (1), item (iii) and paragraph (2), the voting rights of all the shareholders or members of a company.
In Article 29, paragraph (1), item (ii), the period after an inward direct investment or equivalent action is notified under Article 27 or a specified acquisition under Article 28 during which the foreign investor must not carry it out — 30 days from the day the notification is accepted — as extended or shortened under those Articles.
第二十七条第二項本文に規定する期間（同条第三項若しくは第六項の規定により延長され、又は同条第二項ただし書若しくは第四項の規定により短縮された場合には、当該延長され、又は短縮された期間）又は第二十八条第二項本文に規定する期間（同条第三項若しくは第六項の規定により延長され、又は同条第二項ただし書若しくは第四項の規定により短縮された場合には、当該延長され、又は短縮された期間）
国の安全等に係る技術導入契約の締結等
In Article 30, paragraphs (3) to (5), an entry into, renewal or modification of a technology introduction contract (技術導入契約の締結等) likely to harm national security, disturb public order or hinder public safety, or to seriously harm the smooth running of Japan's economy, limited to one with a non-resident from a country party to a multilateral treaty or other international agreement on such contracts that Japan has joined and a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, where that agreement imposes no obligation to remove restrictions on it, or with a non-resident from another country where there would be no such obligation if that country were a party.
役員
In Article 53, paragraphs (3) and (4), a member executing the business, director, executive officer, representative, administrator or person of equivalent standing of a corporation, including anyone, whatever their title such as adviser or consultant, found to have control over the corporation at least equal to theirs.
業務を執行する社員、取締役、執行役、代表者、管理人又はこれらに準ずる者をいい、相談役、顧問その他いかなる名称を有する者であるかを問わず、法人に対し業務を執行する社員、取締役、執行役、代表者、管理人又はこれらに準ずる者と同等以上の支配力を有するものと認められる者を含む
In Article 55-9-2, paragraph (3) and Article 55-9-3, the payments, funds transfer transactions (為替取引) for customers' payments (including transfers of electronic payment instruments or other prescribed actions (電子決済手段等の移転等)), capital transactions (資本取引) and specified capital transactions (特定資本取引) that a foreign exchange transactions service provider (外国為替取引等取扱業者) carries out.
A transaction under Article 25, paragraph (1), to provide specified technology (特定技術) in a specified country (特定国) or to its non-residents, or an export under Article 48, paragraph (1).
A petition, request for examination, objection or other administrative appeal filed under the old appeal system.
This Act as it stood before Act No. 65 of 1979 amended it.
This Act as amended by Act No. 65 of 1979.
Short name for the Cabinet Order (政令) on the acquisition of property by foreign nationals (外国人の財産取得に関する政令) that Act No. 65 of 1979 abolished, as it stood before that abolition.
旧法の規定による届出に係る対内直接投資等
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 40 of 1991, an inward direct investment or equivalent action notified before that Act came into effect under Article 26, paragraph (3) of this Act as it stood before that Act amended it.
The date Act No. 59 of 1997, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Act as amended by Act No. 32 of 2009.
This Act as it stood before Act No. 32 of 2009 amended it.
The Act as amended by the amendment these supplementary provisions belong to.
The date the amending law or Ministerial Order these supplementary provisions belong to comes into effect.
In Article 19, paragraph (1), vouchers, electronic devices and other objects in which property value usable for payment is recorded by electronic, magnetic or other means people cannot perceive.
An electronic payment handling service provider for credit cooperatives (信用協同組合) as defined in Article 6-4-4, paragraph (1) of the Act on Financial Businesses by Cooperative.
協同組合による金融事業に関する法律（昭和二十四年法律第百八十三号）第六条の四の四第一項に規定する信用協同組合電子決済等取扱業者
An electronic payment handling service provider for shinkin banks (信用金庫) as defined in Article 85-3-2, paragraph (1) of the Shinkin Bank Act.
信用金庫法（昭和二十六年法律第二百三十八号）第八十五条の三の二第一項に規定する信用金庫電子決済等取扱業者
In Article 16-2 and Article 55-3, paragraph (2), a cryptoasset exchange service provider as defined in Article 2, paragraph (16) of the Payment Services Act.
資金決済に関する法律第二条第十六項に規定する暗号資産交換業者
銀行
In Article 16-2 and Article 21, paragraph (3), a bank as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act: a person that carries on banking business under a licence from the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) under Article 4, paragraph (1) of that Act.
銀行法（昭和五十六年法律第五十九号）第二条第一項に規定する銀行
An electronic payment handling service provider as defined in Article 2, paragraph (18) of the Banking Act.
銀行法第二条第十八項に規定する電子決済等取扱業者
In Article 18-3, paragraph (2), the record of a customer's identifying information (本人特定事項) and other matters relating to verifying a person's identity that a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) sets, which a bank or other prescribed financial institution (銀行等) must make immediately after verifying a person's identity.
An account that a bank or other financial institution a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies sets up with the Minister of Finance's approval to keep the accounts of the transactions listed in Article 21, paragraph (3) — by which it raises funds from non-residents, such as deposits, and uses them with non-residents, such as loans to them or buying their securities — separately from its other accounts.
資本取引に係る契約締結等行為
In Article 22-2, paragraph (2), entering into a contract for a capital transaction (資本取引) under Article 20, or another act a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, with a customer or equivalent person (顧客等).