A financial instruments business operator must obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister when it intends to conduct, as a business, the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (x); provided, however, that this does not apply in the case where it conducts those acts only with respect to the following securities, and the sum of the trading volume of the securities pertaining to those acts is equal to or less than the standard specified by Cabinet Order as a standard recognized as one under which, even if it became difficult to conduct those acts stably, it is unlikely to affect a large number of persons.
securities set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ix) (excluding securities listed on a financial instruments exchange, over-the-counter traded securities, and other securities specified by Cabinet Order);
securities set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xiv) (excluding securities listed on a financial instruments exchange, over-the-counter traded securities, and the securities specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in the preceding item);
第二条第一項第十四号に掲げる有価証券（金融商品取引所に上場されている有価証券、店頭売買有価証券及び前号に規定する政令で定める有価証券を除く。）
rights that are to be indicated on the securities set forth in the preceding two items and that are deemed to be securities pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (2);
securities specified by Cabinet Order, other than those set forth in the preceding three items, as securities recognized as ones for which, even if it became difficult to conduct those acts stably, it is unlikely to affect a large number of persons.
Upon granting the authorization referred to in the preceding paragraph to a financial instruments business operator, the Prime Minister must note this in the relevant financial instruments business operator's registration.
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beneficiary certificates of beneficiary certificate-issuing trusts prescribed in the Trust Act (Act No. 108 of 2006);
信託法（平成十八年法律第百八号）に規定する受益証券発行信託の受益証券
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share certificates and share option certificates;
株券又は新株予約権証券
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The rights that must be indicated on securities set forth in items (i) through (xv) of the preceding paragraph, on securities set forth in item (xvii) of that paragraph…
前項第一号から第十五号までに掲げる有価証券、同項第十七号に掲げる有価証券（同項第十六号に掲げる有価証券の性質を有するものを除く。）及び同項第十八号に掲げる有価証券に表示されるべき権利（同項第十四号に掲げる有価証券及び同項第十七号に掲げる有価証券（同項第十四号に掲げる有価証券の性質を有するものに限る。）に表示されるべき…
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the purchase and sale of securities or intermediation, brokerage, or agency for it, using an electronic data processing system, conducted through any of the following methods for deciding the trading…
有価証券の売買又はその媒介、取次ぎ若しくは代理であつて、電子情報処理組織を使用して、同時に多数の者を一方の当事者又は各当事者として次に掲げる売買価格の決定方法又はこれに類似する方法により行うもの（取り扱う有価証券の種類等に照らして取引所金融商品市場又は店頭売買有価証券市場（第六十七条第二項に規定する店頭売買有価証券市…
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A financial instruments business operator must obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister when it intends to conduct, as a business, the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (x)…
金融商品取引業者は、第二条第八項第十号に掲げる行為を業として行おうとするときは、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。ただし、当該行為を次に掲げる有価証券のみについて行う場合であつて、当該行為に係る有価証券の売買高の合計額が…
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securities set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ix) (excluding securities listed on a financial instruments exchange, over-the-counter traded securities, and other securities specified by…
第二条第一項第九号に掲げる有価証券（金融商品取引所に上場されている有価証券、店頭売買有価証券その他政令で定める有価証券を除く。）
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securities set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xiv) (excluding securities listed on a financial instruments exchange, over-the-counter traded securities, and the securities specified by…
第二条第一項第十四号に掲げる有価証券（金融商品取引所に上場されている有価証券、店頭売買有価証券及び前号に規定する政令で定める有価証券を除く。）
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rights that are to be indicated on the securities set forth in the preceding two items and that are deemed to be securities pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (2);
前二号に掲げる有価証券に表示されるべき権利であつて、第二条第二項の規定により有価証券とみなされるもの
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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
over-the-counter traded securities
「店頭売買有価証券」
Securities registered under Article 67-11, paragraph (1) by an authorized financial instruments firms association (認可金融商品取引業協会) for trading on the over-the-counter securities market it opens.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (8), item (x), (c)
financial instruments business operator
「金融商品取引業者」
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 29 to carry on financial instruments business (金融商品取引業).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (9)· applies throughout the law
financial instruments exchange
「金融商品取引所」
A membership corporation (金融商品会員制法人) or stock company (株式会社) licensed by the Prime Minister under Article 80, paragraph (1) to open a financial instruments market (金融商品市場).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (16)· applies throughout the law
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.