Article 43-2Separate Management

①A financial instruments business operator, etc. must manage the following securities (excluding the securities to be managed under the following paragraph) in the way specified by Cabinet Office Order as a reliable and orderly way of managing property, and must do so separately from its own property:

②As regards the money or securities set forth in the following items, a financial instruments business operator, etc. must manage the amount of money calculated pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order as the amount to be refunded to the customer in the event that the financial instruments business operator, etc. discontinues its financial instruments business (including services of a registered financial institution; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) or otherwise ceases to operate in the financial instruments business, separately from its own assets, and must establish a trust with a trust company, etc. in Japan, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, for the purpose of managing the amount of money to be refunded to the customer in the event that the relevant financial instruments business operator, etc. discontinues its financial instruments business or otherwise ceases to operate in the financial instruments business:

③A financial instruments business operator, etc. must periodically undergo an audit by a certified public accountant (this includes a foreign certified public accountant as prescribed in Article 16-2, paragraph (5) of the Certified Public Accountants Act (Act No. 103 of 1948); the same applies in Article 193-2 and Article 193-3) or audit by an audit corporation, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, as regards the management conditions under the preceding two paragraphs.