The term "foreign securities services provider" as used in this Section means a person other than a financial instruments business operator, bank, cooperative financial institution, or financial institution specified by Cabinet Order, which is governed by foreign laws and regulations, and which engages in securities services in a foreign country.
第五十八条の二
(外国証券業者が行うことのできる業務)Services in Which a Foreign Securities Services Provider May Engage
A foreign securities services provider must not perform any act set forth in the items of Article 28, paragraph (8) with a person in Japan as the counterparty; provided, however, that this does not apply if a foreign securities services provider performs such an act with a financial instruments business operator engaged in securities services as the counterparty (excluding cases where the relevant foreign securities broker conducts specified over-the-counter derivatives transactions, or intermediation, brokerage (excluding brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.), or agency therefor using the electronic data processing system used by the relevant foreign securities broker for its business of over-the-counter derivatives transactions, etc.), or if it does so in a case that is specified by Cabinet Order.
第二款 引受業務の一部の許可
第五十九条
(引受業務の一部の許可)Permission for Some Underwriting Activities
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 29 and the preceding Article, with the permission of the Prime Minister, a foreign securities services provider may participate in a wholesale underwriting contract (meaning a wholesale underwriting contract as prescribed in Article 21, paragraph (4); hereinafter the same applies in paragraph (1), item (vi), (f) of the following Article) and perform other acts specified by Cabinet Order in Japan, as a part of the underwriting of securities that it carries out (hereinafter referred to as the "underwriting activities" in this Section).
第二項
内閣総理大臣は、前項の許可に条件を付することができる。
The Prime Minister may attach conditions to the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph.
第三項
前項の条件は、公益又は投資者保護のため必要な最小限度のものでなければならない。
The conditions referred to in the preceding paragraph must constitute the minimum level of conditions that are necessary for the public interest and the protection of investors.
If the Prime Minister decides to attach conditions pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), the Prime Minister must notify the applicant for permission of this in writing.
第五十九条の二
(引受業務の一部の許可の申請)Application for Permission for Some Underwriting Activities
A person seeking to obtain the permission referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article must submit a written application for permission to the Prime Minister, in which the person states the following particulars (if the applicant for permission is an individual, the particulars set forth in items (iii) and (iv) are excluded):
一
商号又は氏名
its trade name or name;
二
本店又は主たる事務所の所在の場所
the location of its head office or principal office;
三
資本金の額又は出資の総額
the amount of stated capital or the total amount of contributions;
四
代表権を有する役員の役職名及び氏名
the title and the name of the officer that has the authority of representation;
五
当該申請に係る行為を行う者の氏名及び国内の住所又は居所その他の連絡場所
the name, and the address, residence, or other contact address in Japan, of the person that will perform the activities to which the application pertains;
六
当該申請に係る行為に係る有価証券に関し予定されている次に掲げる事項
the following particulars, as scheduled, of the securities that are connected with the activities to which the application pertains:
the other financial instruments business operator managing the underwriting (meaning the financial instruments business operator that holds discussions with the issuer or holder of the securities in order to fix the content of the wholesale underwriting contract, when a wholesale underwriting contract is being concluded); and
七
許可申請者が引き受けようとする額
the amount that the applicant for permission seeks to underwrite.
第二項
前項第三号に規定する資本金の額又は出資の総額の計算については、政令で定める。
The calculation of the amount of stated capital or the total amount of contributions as prescribed in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph is specified by Cabinet Order.
The following documents must accompany the written application for permission referred to in paragraph (1); provided, however, that if a document provided for in item (i) or (iv) has the same content as an accompanying document submitted within one year prior to the date on which the written application for permission provided for in paragraph (1) is submitted, a document stating the submission date of that document and indicating that reference should be made to that document may be used:
一
業務の内容を記載した書類
a document giving the business outline;
二
最近一年間における引受業務の概要を記載した書類
a document summarizing underwriting activities in the most recent one-year period;
a document in which the officer that has the authority of representation pledges that the applicant does not fall under the purview of Article 59-4, paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii), and that no officer falls under any of the categories in Article 29-4, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) through (i) (if the applicant for permission is an individual, a document in which the individual pledges that the relevant individual does not fall under the purview of Article 59-4, paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii) or under any of the categories in Article 29-4, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) through (i)); and
四
最近一年間に終了する各事業年度に関する貸借対照表及び損益計算書
the balance sheet and profit and loss statement for each business year ending in the most recent one-year period.
第五十九条の三
(引受業務の一部の許可の審査基準)Examination Criteria for Permission for Some Underwriting Activities
Before seeking to grant the permission referred to in Article 59, paragraph (1), the Prime Minister must examine whether there is compliance with the following criteria:
the applicant has been continuously engaged in the same type of business in a foreign country as the business for which it seeks to obtain permission, for a period longer than the period specified by Cabinet Order;
the applicant is a corporation whose stated capital or total contributions are not less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order as the amount necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors in light of the mode of business for which the applicant seeks to obtain permission; and
三
第二十九条の四第一項第五号ロに規定する純財産額が前号に規定する政令で定める金額以上であること。
the net assets provided for in Article 29-4, paragraph (1), item (v), (b) are not less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order as provided for in the preceding item.
第五十九条の四
(引受業務の一部の許可の拒否要件)Requirement to Refuse Permission for Some Underwriting Activities
The Prime Minister must refuse permission if an applicant for permission falls under any of the following items, or if the written application for permission or an accompanying document contains a false statement or lacks a statement of a material fact:
the applicant is a person that has had the registration referred to in Article 29 rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 53, paragraph (3), has had the permission referred to in Article 59, paragraph (1) rescinded pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article, has had the registration referred to in Article 66 rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 66-20, paragraph (1), has had the registration referred to in Article 66-27 rescinded pursuant to Article 66-42, paragraph (1), has had the registration referred to in Article 66-50 rescinded pursuant to Article 66-63, paragraph (1), has had the registration referred to in Article 66-71 rescinded pursuant to Article 66-85, paragraph (1), or has had the registration referred to in Article 12 of the Act on the Provision of Financial Services and the Development of the Accessible Environment Thereto (limited to the registration related to the type of securities, etc. intermediary business operations; hereinafter the same applies in this item) rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) of that Act (excluding items (ii), (iii), and (v)); or a person that had a registration of the same kind as the registration referred to in Article 29, Article 66, Article 66-27, Article 66-50, or Article 66-71 or Article 12 of the Act on the Provision of Financial Services and the Development of the Accessible Environment Thereto obtained in the country where its head office is located (including permission or any other administrative disposition similar to such a registration) rescinded pursuant to a foreign law or regulation that is equivalent to this Act or the Act on the Provision of Financial Services and the Development of the Accessible Environment Thereto; and for whom five years have not passed since the day of the rescission;
the applicant has been sentenced to a fine (including an equivalent sentence under foreign laws and regulations) for violating the provisions of this Act, the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations, the Commodity Derivatives Transaction Act, the Act on Regulation of Commodity Investment, the Money Lending Business Act, the Act Regulating the Receipt of Contributions, the Receipt of Deposits, and Interest Rates, or the Act on the Provision of Financial Services and the Development of the Accessible Environment Thereto; or for violating the provisions of a foreign law or regulation that is equivalent to any of these Acts, and five years have not passed since the day on which the applicant finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its enforcement; and
the applicant is a corporation that has a person falling under any of the persons set forth in Article 29-4, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) through (i), as an officer (including a person that is found to have at least the same amount of authority as an officer over the corporation, irrespective of their title; hereinafter the same applies in paragraph (1), item (iii) of the following Article, Article 60-3, paragraph (1) and Article 60-8, paragraph (2)) or the domestic representative (meaning the representative in Japan of a foreign securities services provider prescribed in Article 817, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act; hereinafter the same applies in this Section).
Before seeking to refuse the permission referred to in Article 59, paragraph (1), the Prime Minister must notify the applicant for permission and have the relevant officials conduct a hearing regarding the applicant for permission.
Upon deciding to grant or not to grant the permission referred to in Article 59, paragraph (1), the Prime Minister must notify the applicant for permission of this in writing.
第五十九条の五
(引受業務の一部の許可の取消し)Rescission of Permission for Some Underwriting Activities
If a foreign securities services provider that has obtained the permission referred to in Article 59, paragraph (1) falls under any of the following items, the Prime Minister may rescind the permission:
一
前条第一項第一号又は第二号に該当することとなつたとき。
the foreign securities services provider comes to fall under paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii) of the preceding Article;
the foreign securities services provider violates a law or regulation (including a foreign law or regulation) or a disposition by a government agency which is based on a law or regulation, or violates a condition attached to its permission or to the registration, etc. it has obtained in the state where its head office is located (meaning a registration of the same kind as the registration referred to in Article 29 (including permission or any other administrative disposition similar to such a registration); hereinafter the same applies in Article 60-3, paragraph (1), item (i), (b)), and rescinding its permission is found to be necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors; or
the officer or the domestic representative of the foreign securities services provider (or, if the foreign securities services provider is an individual, that individual) comes to fall under any of the categories of persons set forth in Article 29-4, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) through (i), or has acted as set forth in the preceding item, and it is found to be likely that the activities subject to the permission will not be performed fairly.
Before seeking to rescind the permission referred to in Article 59, paragraph (1) pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister must notify the foreign securities services provider of this in writing.
If the Prime Minister rescinds the permission referred to in Article 59, paragraph (1) pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the Prime Minister must make a public notice of this, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.
The provisions of Article 36-3; Article 36-4, paragraph (1); Article 38 (limited to the part that involves items (i) through (iii) and (ix)); and Article 44-4 apply mutatis mutandis to the underwriting activities of the foreign securities services provider that has obtained the permission referred to in Article 59, paragraph (1).