The provisions of the proviso to Article 331, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 335, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act); Article 332, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 334, paragraph (1) of that Act); Article 336, paragraph (2); and the proviso to Article 402, paragraph (5) of that Act do not apply to financial instruments business operators (limited to those engaged in type-I financial instruments business or investment management business).
会社法第三百三十一条第二項ただし書（同法第三百三十五条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）、第三百三十二条第二項（同法第三百三十四条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）、第三百三十六条第二項及び第四百二条第五項ただし書の規定は、金融商品取引業者（第一種金融商品取引業又は投資運用業を行う者に限る。）については、適用しない。
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(Qualifications of Directors)
A stock company may not provide in the articles of incorporation that directors must be shareholders; provided, however, that this does not apply to a stock company that is not a public company.
株式会社は、取締役が株主でなければならない旨を定款で定めることができない。ただし、公開会社でない株式会社においては、この限りでない。
Open this provisionDirectors' Terms of Office
The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude a stock company which is not a public company (excluding a company with audit and supervisory committee and company with nominating…
前項の規定は、公開会社でない株式会社（監査等委員会設置会社及び指名委員会等設置会社を除く。）において、定款によって、同項の任期を選任後十年以内に終了する事業年度のうち最終のものに関する定時株主総会の終結の時まで伸長することを妨げない。
Open this provision(Accounting Advisors' Terms of Office)
The provisions of Article 332 (excluding paragraphs (4) and (5); the same applies in the following paragraph) apply mutatis mutandis to the accounting advisors' terms of office.
第三百三十二条（第四項及び第五項を除く。次項において同じ。）の規定は、会計参与の任期について準用する。
Open this provision(Qualifications of Company Auditors)
The provisions of Article 331, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) and Article 331-2 apply mutatis mutandis to company auditors.
第三百三十一条第一項及び第二項並びに第三百三十一条の二の規定は、監査役について準用する。
Open this provision(Company Auditors' Terms of Office)
The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude a stock company which is not a public company from extending, by the articles of incorporation…
前項の規定は、公開会社でない株式会社において、定款によって、同項の任期を選任後十年以内に終了する事業年度のうち最終のものに関する定時株主総会の終結の時まで伸長することを妨げない。
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A stock company may not provide in the articles of incorporation that the executive officers must be shareholders; provided, however, that this does not apply to a company with nominating committee…
株式会社は、執行役が株主でなければならない旨を定款で定めることができない。ただし、公開会社でない指名委員会等設置会社については、この限りでない。
Open this provisionfinancial 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
type-I financial instruments business
「第一種金融商品取引業」
The part of financial instruments business (金融商品取引業) that consists of carrying on, as a business, any of the acts listed in Article 28, paragraph (1), such as dealing in securities (other than most rights treated as securities) and brokerage for them, over-the-counter derivatives transactions, the underwriting of securities, and trading securities through an electronic system as Article 2, paragraph (8), item (x) describes.
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
investment management business
「投資運用業」
Investment management business as defined in Article 28, paragraph (4): the part of financial instruments business (金融商品取引業) that consists in carrying on as a business the acts in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (xii), (xiv) and (xv) — managing money or other property, on investment decisions (投資判断) based on an analysis of the value, etc. of financial instruments, as an investment in securities or in rights under derivatives transactions, whether under a discretionary investment contract (投資一任契約) or an asset management contract with a registered investment corporation (登録投資法人), or for the holders of the rights items (xiv) and (xv) list who contributed it — including where a bank, a cooperative financial institution or another financial institution a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies carries them on.
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (4)· applies only in this chapter