Article 102-31Minutes

①A self-regulatory organization must keep the minutes referred to in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article at its principal office for a ten-year period beginning from the day of the board meeting.

②If it is necessary in order for the member of a self-regulatory organization to exercise its rights, with the permission of the court, the member may request to inspect or copy the following things as respects the minutes referred to in the preceding paragraph:

③The court may not give the permission referred to in the preceding paragraph if it finds that the inspection or copying to which the request referred to in the preceding paragraph pertains is likely to cause substantial detriment to the relevant entrusting financial instruments exchange, to a person that has that entrusting financial instruments exchange as its subsidiary company, or to a subsidiary company of that entrusting financial instruments exchange.

④The provisions of Article 868, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act and of Article 869; Article 870, paragraph (2) (limited to the part that involves item (i)); Article 870-2; the main clause of Article 871; Article 872 (limited to the part that involves item (v)); Article 872-2; the main clause of Article 873; Article 875; and Article 876 of that Act apply mutatis mutandis to the permission referred to in paragraph (2). In such a case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.