Article 79-7Purpose and Services of Certified Investor Protection Organizations
第七十九条の七（認定投資者保護団体の目的及び業務）
A corporation (including an organization without legal personality for which a representative or administrator has been designated, and excluding an authorized association or a certified association; hereinafter the same applies in item (iii), (b) of the following Article) that seeks to provide the services set forth in each of the following items with the aim of ensuring fair and smooth purchase and sales and other transactions of securities and of ensuring fair and smooth derivatives transactions, etc. as well as contributing to the sound development of the financial instruments business and to the protection of investors, may obtain the certification of the Prime Minister:
resolution of complaints about financial instruments business that a financial instruments business operator or a financial instruments intermediary service provider engages in;
mediation in the event of a dispute about financial instruments business that a financial instruments business operator or a financial instruments intermediary service provider engages in; and
services beyond what is set forth in the preceding two items, which contribute to the sound development of the financial instruments business and to the protection of investors.
A person seeking to obtain the certification referred to in the preceding paragraph must file an application with the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order.
前項の認定を受けようとする者は、政令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣に対し申請をしなければならない。
Upon granting the certification referred to in paragraph (1), the Prime Minister must issue public notice of this.
内閣総理大臣は、第一項の認定をしたときは、その旨を公示しなければならない。
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A corporation (including an organization without legal personality for which a representative or administrator has been designated, and excluding an authorized association or a certified association…
有価証券の売買その他の取引及びデリバティブ取引等を公正かつ円滑にし、並びに金融商品取引業の健全な発展及び投資者の保護に資することを目的として、次の各号に掲げる業務を行おうとする法人（法人でない団体で代表者又は管理人の定めのあるものを含み、認可協会及び認定協会を除く。次条第三号ロにおいて同じ。）は…
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resolution of complaints about financial instruments business that a financial instruments business operator or a financial instruments intermediary service provider engages in;
金融商品取引業者又は金融商品仲介業者の行う金融商品取引業に対する苦情の解決
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mediation in the event of a dispute about financial instruments business that a financial instruments business operator or a financial instruments intermediary service provider engages in; and
金融商品取引業者又は金融商品仲介業者の行う金融商品取引業に争いがある場合のあつせん
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a person that has a person falling under any of the following as an officer that conducts its business (including the representative or administrator of an organization without legal personality for…
その業務を行う役員（法人でない団体で代表者又は管理人の定めのあるものの代表者又は管理人を含む。以下この条において同じ。）のうちに、次のいずれかに該当する者があるもの
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「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
financial instruments business
「金融商品取引業」
Carrying on as a business any of the acts listed in Article 2, paragraph (8) — such as trading and brokering securities and derivatives, underwriting, handling public offerings and private placements, giving investment advice, managing investments and holding customers' money or securities — other than acts a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes as posing no risk to investor protection, and certain of those acts when banks, cooperative financial institutions (協同組織金融機関) and other financial institutions a Cabinet Order specifies carry them out.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (8)· applies throughout the law
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
financial instruments intermediary service provider
「金融商品仲介業者」
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 66 to carry on financial instruments intermediary service (金融商品仲介業).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (12)· applies throughout the law
derivatives transactions, etc.machine translation
「デリバティブ取引等」
In Article 33, the acts its paragraph (3) lists: market derivatives transactions (市場デリバティブ取引) and the intermediation, brokerage or agency in them (or in entrusting them) listed in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (ii) and (iii); over-the-counter derivatives transactions, etc. (店頭デリバティブ取引等); and foreign market derivatives transactions (外国市場デリバティブ取引) together with the same acts in relation to them.
Short name set inArticle 33, paragraph (3)
authorized association
「認可協会」
In Chapter IV, short for authorized financial instruments firms association (認可金融商品取引業協会): an association established under Subsection 1 of Section 1 of that Chapter, whose purpose is to make the trading of securities and derivatives transactions, etc. fair and smooth and to contribute to the sound development of financial instruments business and to investor protection.
Short name set inArticle 67, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
certified association
「認定協会」
In Chapter IV, short for certified financial instruments business association (認定金融商品取引業協会): a general incorporated association (一般社団法人) set up by financial instruments business operators that the Prime Minister has certified under Article 78, paragraph (1).
Short name set inArticle 78-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.