A person violates the preceding Article in causing securities to be acquired is liable to compensate the person that acquires the securities for damage arising from the violation.
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(Prohibition of Transactions in Securities Prior to a Notification Coming into Effect, and Delivery of Prospectus)
It is prohibited for an issuer, person that conducts a secondary distribution of securities, underwriter (including a person that, with regard to a general solicitation involving securities acquired…
発行者、有価証券の売出しをする者、引受人（適格機関投資家取得有価証券一般勧誘（開示が行われている場合における有価証券に係るものを除く。）又は特定投資家等取得有価証券一般勧誘（開示が行われている場合における有価証券に係るものを除く。）に際し、第二条第六項各号のいずれかを行う者を含む。以下この章において同じ。）…
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「有価証券」
Securities as this Act defines them: the instruments listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), among them national government and local government bonds, corporate bonds, share certificates and share option certificates, preferred equity investment certificates, beneficiary certificates of investment trusts and other trusts, investment securities, certain promissory notes, mortgage securities, option certificates and depositary receipts, foreign instruments of the same nature, and other instruments a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law