Article 156-20-16Authorization When Interoperating with Other Financial Instruments Clearing Organizations

①With the authorization of the Prime Minister, a financial instruments clearing organization may conclude a contract for collaborating financial instruments obligation assumption services (meaning the performance, on a regular basis, of an act specified by Cabinet Office Order as the act of having a third party bear the obligations of a clearing member related to a subject transaction that is other than a transaction set forth in Article 156-62, item (i), and to personally bear the obligations of the other party to the subject transaction with that clearing member; the same applies hereinafter) with a collaborating clearing organization, etc. (meaning another financial instruments clearing organization, foreign financial instruments clearing organization, or corporation incorporated based on foreign laws and regulations that performs services of the same type as financial instruments obligation assumption services in a foreign country; the same applies hereinafter) and may perform collaborative financial instruments obligation assumption services.

②A financial instruments clearing organization must receive the authorization referred to in the preceding paragraph for each collaborating clearing organization, etc. with which it concludes a contract for collaborative financial instruments obligation assumption services.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two Sections, the collaborating clearing organization, etc. (limited to those other than financial instruments clearing organization or foreign financial instruments clearing organization) that concluded a contract for collaborative financial instruments obligation assumption services with a financial instruments clearing organization that has obtained the authorization under paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "authorized financial instruments clearing organization" in this Section) may conduct a financial instruments obligation assumption service relating to the collaborative financial instruments obligation assumption services.