Article 57-2Notifications for Special Financial Instruments Business Operators

①If the total asset value (meaning the total monetary value of assets calculated pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) of a financial instruments business operator (limited to one engaged in type-I financial instruments business, excluding foreign corporations; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection) exceeds the amount of money specified by Cabinet Order as representing the scope of all assets required for ensuring the sound and appropriate operation of the business of the group consisting of the financial instruments business operator and its subsidiary corporations, etc. (hereinafter referred to as the "total asset value threshold" in this Article), the financial instruments business operator must notify the Prime Minister of this, of the total asset value, and of the basis for its calculation within two weeks from the day on which that value is exceeded; provided, however, that if the total asset value comes to be equal to or lower than the total asset value threshold after the financial instruments business operator has made the notification under the main clause of this paragraph, but the total asset value of the financial instruments business operator again comes to exceed the total asset value threshold by the time that two years have elapsed counting from the day on which the total asset value came to be equal to or lower than the total asset value threshold, the financial instruments business operator is not required to submit notification of this or of the total asset value and the basis for its calculation.

③If a special financial instruments business operator comes to have a parent company on or after the notification date, the special financial instruments business operator must submit the documents set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph to the Prime Minister within the period specified by Cabinet Order, as calculated beginning from the day on which it came to have that parent company.

④If a particular stated in a document set forth in paragraph (2), item (i), (iii) or (iv) changes (excluding a document specified by Cabinet Office Order which concerns a designated parent company as prescribed in Article 57-12, paragraph (3) or its subsidiary corporation, etc.), the special financial instruments business operator (limited to one with a parent company) that has submitted the document set forth in the relevant item of paragraph (2) pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs must notify the Prime Minister of this without delay, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

⑤For each quarter, a special financial instruments business operator (limited to one with a parent company) that has submitted the documents set forth in the items of paragraph (2) pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) or (3), must submit documents in which it describes the state of the business and assets of the parent company of the special financial instruments business operator and its subsidiary corporations, etc. pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order (excluding documents specified by Cabinet Office Order which concern the highest designated parent company provided for in Article 57-12, paragraph (3) or its subsidiary corporations, etc.), to the Prime Minister within the period specified by Cabinet Order after the end of the quarter.

⑥If a special financial instruments business operator comes to fall under any of the following items, it must notify the Prime Minister of this without delay:

⑦If the Prime Minister accepts a notification under paragraph (1), the Prime Minister must note that the financial instruments business operator that has made such notification is a special financial instruments business operator in that financial instruments business operator's registration.

⑧The term "parent company" as used in paragraphs (2) through (6) means a first company that has a second company as its subsidiary company (meaning a subsidiary company as prescribed in Article 29-4, paragraph (4); hereinafter the same applies in the following paragraph).

⑨The term "subsidiary corporation, etc." as used in paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5) means the subsidiary company of another company or any other person that falls under the requirements specified by Cabinet Order as a corporation or other organization that is closely related to that other company.