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Article 156-4Licensing Examination Criteria

第百五十六条の四（免許審査基準）

When a license application under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is filed, the Prime Minister must examine whether the application conforms to the following criteria:

内閣総理大臣は、前条第一項の規定による免許の申請があつた場合においては、その申請が次に掲げる基準に適合するかどうかを審査しなければならない。

the provisions of the articles of incorporation and business rules conform to laws and regulations and are sufficient to allow financial instruments obligation assumption services to be performed properly and reliably;

定款及び業務方法書の規定が法令に適合し、かつ、金融商品債務引受業を適正かつ確実に遂行するために十分であること。

the applicant has a sufficient financial basis to soundly perform financial instruments obligation assumption services, and has good prospects in terms of expected income and expenditures in connection with financial instruments obligation assumption services;

金融商品債務引受業を健全に遂行するに足りる財産的基礎を有し、かつ、金融商品債務引受業に係る収支の見込みが良好であること。

in light of its personnel structure, the applicant has sufficient knowledge and experience to perform financial instruments obligation assumption services properly and reliably, and has sufficient social credibility;

その人的構成に照らして、金融商品債務引受業を適正かつ確実に遂行することができる知識及び経験を有し、かつ、十分な社会的信用を有すること。

the applicant has an adequately developed structure and system for properly securing collateral to allocate for settling outstanding obligations, for managing highly reliable facilities in order to facilitate such settlement, and for otherwise executing such settlement properly and reliably.

未決済債務等の決済に充当する担保の適切な徴求、当該決済が円滑に行われるための信頼性の高い設備の運用その他当該決済が適正かつ確実に行われるための仕組み及び体制が十分に整備されていること。

If, as a result of having conducted an examination pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister finds that an application conforms to the criteria in that paragraph, the Prime Minister must grant the license, except in a case that falls under any of the following items:

内閣総理大臣は、前項の規定により審査した結果、その申請が同項の基準に適合していると認めたときは、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合を除いて、その免許を与えなければならない。

the license applicant is not a stock company (meaning a stock company that has the following organs):

免許申請者が株式会社（次に掲げる機関を置くものに限る。）でないとき。

a board of directors; or

取締役会

company auditors, a supervisory committee, or a nominating committee, etc.;

監査役、監査等委員会又は指名委員会等

the license applicant is a company that has been sentenced to a fine (including an equivalent sentence under foreign laws and regulations) for violating the provisions of this Act 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 one of these Acts, and five years have not passed since the day on which the company finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its enforcement;

免許申請者がこの法律若しくは金融サービスの提供及び利用環境の整備等に関する法律又はこれらに相当する外国の法令の規定に違反し、罰金の刑（これに相当する外国の法令による刑を含む。）に処せられ、その刑の執行を終わり、又はその刑の執行を受けることがなくなつた日から五年を経過するまでの会社であるとき。

the license applicant is a company that has had its license rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 148, Article 152, paragraph (1), Article 156-17, paragraph (1) or (2), Article 148 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 156-26, or Article 156-32, paragraph (1); a company that has had its registration rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1), Article 53, paragraph (3), Article 57-6, paragraph (3), Article 66-20, paragraph (1), Article 66-42, paragraph (1), Article 66-63, paragraph (1), or Article 66-85, paragraph (1); a company that has had its authorization rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 106-7, paragraph (1), Article 106-21, paragraph (1), Article 106-28, paragraph (1), or Article 156-5-9, paragraph (1); or a company that has had its 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) rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) of that Act (excluding items (ii), (iii), and (v)); or is a company that had a license or registration of the same kind obtained in a foreign country rescinded pursuant to the provisions of 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 (including permission or any other administrative disposition similar to such a license or registration); for which five years have not passed since the date of the rescission;

免許申請者が第百四十八条、第百五十二条第一項、第百五十六条の十七第一項若しくは第二項、第百五十六条の二十六において準用する第百四十八条若しくは第百五十六条の三十二第一項の規定により免許を取り消され、第五十二条第一項、第五十三条第三項、第五十七条の六第三項、第六十六条の二十第一項、第六十六条の四十二第一項、第六十六条の六十三第一項若しくは第六十六条の八十五第一項の規定により登録を取り消され、若しくは第百六条の七第一項、第百六条の二十一第一項、第百六条の二十八第一項若しくは第百五十六条の五の九第一項の規定により認可を取り消され、若しくは金融サービスの提供及び利用環境の整備等に関する法律第三十八条第一項（第二号、第三号及び第五号を除く。）の規定により同法第十二条の登録（有価証券等仲介業務の種別に係るものに限る。）を取り消され、又はこの法律若しくは金融サービスの提供及び利用環境の整備等に関する法律に相当する外国の法令の規定により当該外国において受けている同種類の免許若しくは登録（当該免許又は登録に類する許可その他の行政処分を含む。）を取り消され、その取消しの日から五年を経過するまでの会社であるとき。

the license applicant is a company that has a person falling under any of Article 82, paragraph (2), item (iii), (a) through (f) as a director, accounting advisor, company auditor, or executive officer; or

免許申請者の取締役、会計参与、監査役又は執行役のうちに第八十二条第二項第三号イからヘまでのいずれかに該当する者のある会社であるとき。

the written license application, or a document or electronic or magnetic record that is required to be attached to it contains a false statement or false record regarding a material particular.

免許申請書又はこれに添付すべき書類若しくは電磁的記録のうちに重要な事項について虚偽の記載又は記録があるとき。

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Article 156-4Licensing Examination Criteria