A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not, for any reason, receive a deposit of money or Securities from a customer, or have a person specified by Cabinet Order as being closely related to the financial instruments business operator, etc. deposit a customer's money or securities, in connection with the investment advisory business it conducts, unless it does so as securities, etc. management, or unless it does so in a case that is specified by Cabinet Order.
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securities
「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
securities, etc. management
「有価証券等管理業務」
In Chapter III, the part of type-I financial instruments business made up of the acts in Article 28, paragraph (1), item (v): taking deposits of money, securities or electronically recorded transferable rights from customers in connection with one's dealings in securities and derivatives (Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xvi)), and transferring corporate bonds, shares and the like through book-entry accounts (item (xvii) of that paragraph).
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (5)· applies only in this chapter
investment advisory business
「投資助言業務」
Within investment advisory and agency business (投資助言・代理業), the services connected with giving advice under an investment advisory contract (投資顧問契約) — the act in Article 28, paragraph (3), item (i).
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (6)· applies only in this chapter
financial instruments business operator, etc.machine translation
「金融商品取引業者等」
A financial instruments business operator (金融商品取引業者) or a registered financial institution (登録金融機関).
Defined inArticle 34, paragraph (1)