A financial instruments business operator (other than one that is engaged in type-I financial instruments business; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection) must prepare and preserve books and documents concerning its business pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.
金融商品取引業者（第一種金融商品取引業を行う者を除く。以下この款において同じ。）は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、その業務に関する帳簿書類を作成し、これを保存しなければならない。
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
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