Article 156-20-15Authorization to Discontinue Financial Instruments Obligation Assumption Services
第百五十六条の二十の十五（金融商品債務引受業の廃止の認可）
A foreign financial instruments clearing organization must obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister if it seeks to discontinue financial instruments obligation assumption service.
外国金融商品取引清算機関は、金融商品債務引受業を廃止しようとする場合には、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。
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financial instruments obligation assumption servicemachine translation
「金融商品債務引受業」
Carrying on as a business taking on, by assumption, novation or other means, the obligations under subject transactions (対象取引) of financial instruments business operators, registered financial institutions or securities finance companies, with them as counterparties; subject transactions are purchases and sales of securities and derivatives transactions, other than those a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes, and transactions incidental or related to them that a Cabinet Order specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (28)· applies throughout the law
foreign financial instruments clearing organization
「外国金融商品取引清算機関」
A foreign financial instruments clearing organization as defined in Article 2, paragraph (29) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act: one that carries on financial instruments obligation assumption business (金融商品債務引受業) under a licence from the Prime Minister under Article 156-20-2 of that Act.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (29)
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.