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従前の適格消費者団体
In Article 35, the qualified consumer organization (適格消費者団体) that held a right to demand an injunction (差止請求権) before a designated qualified consumer organization (指定適格消費者団体) took that right over.
An International Strategic Comprehensive Special Zone as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Comprehensive Special Zones Act.
高額電子移転可能型前払式支払手段発行者
In Article 27, paragraph (1) and Article 32, paragraph (4), item (i)(b), the specified business operators (特定事業者) listed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (xxx-2): issuers of prepaid payment instruments (前払式支払手段発行者) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Payment Services Act that have made the notification under Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of that Act.
In Article 55, paragraph (2), the authorization under Article 52-9, paragraph (1) or the proviso to paragraph (2) of that Article to hold voting rights at or above a bank's major shareholder threshold (主要株主基準値); it ceases to have effect when the bank's major shareholder (銀行主要株主) no longer holds that many voting rights, or obtains authorization under Article 52-17 or Article 52-23 to make the bank its subsidiary company (子会社).
The document setting out the explanation (弁明) that a person who is to receive a payment order for an administrative monetary penalty (課徴金納付命令) gives in their defence; the explanation is given by submitting it unless the Prime Minister allows it to be given orally.
提出者
In Article 27-14, a person who has submitted a tender offer document that the Prime Minister makes available for public inspection under paragraph (1) of that Article — a tender offer statement, notice of withdrawal, tender offer report, target company's position statement or tender offeror's answer — and who must keep a copy at its head or principal office for public inspection for as long as the Prime Minister does.
In Article 54, an authorization, approval or certification under this Act, to which the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) may attach conditions and later change them.
The particulars made public when the person who is to receive a payment order for an administrative monetary penalty (課徴金納付命令) cannot be found: that person's name (for a corporation, its name and its representative's name), where and by when to submit the written explanation (弁明書) (or, where the explanation is to be given orally, that fact and when and where to appear), and that the Prime Minister will hand the person at any time a document setting out what the notice under Article 15, paragraph (1) must state.
契約金額
In Article 31-2, the amount that, under a contract a financial instruments business operator has concluded and notified to the Prime Minister, is to be deposited for it as business security deposit (営業保証金) on the Prime Minister's order; while the contract is in effect, the operator need not itself deposit that amount.
In the section on foreign securities firms, the part of a foreign securities firm's (外国証券業者) underwriting business that it may carry on in Japan with the Prime Minister's permission: taking part in an underwriting contract (元引受契約) and other acts a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
申請者等
In Article 52-18, a company that has applied for authorization under Article 52-17, paragraph (1) or the proviso to paragraph (3) of that Article, or the company to be incorporated with that authorization.
A person the Prime Minister appoints, where needed, to act for the time being in place of the representative in Japan of a foreign corporation — a specified non-financial information audit certification provider (特定非財務情報監査証明業者), an authorized firm for on-exchange transactions (取引所取引許可業者), a financial instruments business operator, etc. (金融商品取引業者等), a credit rating agency (信用格付業者) or an investment management-related business trustee (投資運用関係業務受託業者) — when that representative is absent.
A foreign authority that enforces foreign laws and regulations equivalent to this Act, to which the Prime Minister may give information that helps it perform duties equivalent to those under this Act.
In Article 28, paragraph (1) and Article 32, paragraph (4), item (i), the specified business operators (特定事業者) listed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (xxxi): funds transfer service providers as defined in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Payment Services Act, that is, persons registered under Article 37 of that Act.
認定区域計画
A certified zone plan as defined in Article 11, paragraph (1) of the National Strategic Special Zones Act, which names a corporation as the body carrying out a specified project (特定事業) in a national strategic special zone (国家戦略特別区域).
認定地方公共団体
A certified local government as defined in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Local Revitalization Act, which has drawn up a certified regional revitalization plan (認定地域再生計画) and carries out a town, people and job creation donation project (まち・ひと・しごと創生寄附活用事業) to which a corporation's donation earns the tax credit in Article 42-12-2.
商品市場開設業務
The business of operating a market needed for commodity futures transactions (商品先物取引), including business incidental to it.
対象議決権保有者
In Article 103-3, paragraph (1), a person holding subject voting rights (対象議決権) of more than 5 percent of all shareholders' voting rights in an incorporated financial instruments exchange (株式会社金融商品取引所).
The input and output devices of financial instruments business operators or registered financial institutions that an operator of a foreign financial instruments market, with the Prime Minister's authorization under Article 155, paragraph (1), connects to its electronic data processing system so they can trade on its market.
期間
In Article 53, paragraph (2), the period, of no more than six months, that a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) sets, for each of which a funds transfer service provider must prepare and submit to the Prime Minister the reports that paragraph lists.