①An incorporated financial instruments exchange disappearing in a consolidation-type merger must notify its shareholders and registered pledgees of shares as well as the holders of share options and registered pledgees of share options that a consolidation-type merger is to be implemented, and must indicate the names or trade names and addresses of any other financial instruments exchange disappearing in the consolidation-type merger and of the incorporated financial instruments exchange incorporated in the consolidation-type merger, within two weeks from the day of the resolution at the shareholders meeting set forth in Article 139-15, paragraph (1).

②Public notice may be given in lieu of the notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

③The provisions of Article 940, paragraph (1) (limited to the part that involves item (i)) and paragraph (3) of the Companies Act apply mutatis mutandis if an incorporated financial instruments exchange disappearing in a consolidation-type merger makes the public notice referred to in the preceding paragraph through an electronic public notice. In such a case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

①In implementing a consolidation-type merger, the following shareholders may demand an incorporated financial instruments exchange disappearing in the consolidation-type merger to purchase its shares at a fair price:

②The provisions of Article 806, paragraphs (5) through (9); Article 807; Article 868, paragraph (1); Article 870, paragraph (2) (limited to the part that involves item (ii)); Article 870-2; the main clause of Article 871; Article 872 (limited to the part that involves item (v)); Article 872-2; the main clause of Article 873; Article 875; and Article 876 of the Companies Act apply mutatis mutandis to a demand under the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

①In implementing a consolidation-type merger, a holder of share options in an incorporated financial instruments exchange disappearing in a consolidation-type merger may demand the incorporated financial instruments exchange disappearing in the consolidation-type merger to purchase its share options at a fair price.

②The provisions of Article 808, paragraphs (5) through (10); Article 809; Article 868, paragraph (1); Article 870, paragraph (2) (limited to the part that involves item (ii)); Article 870-2; the main clause of Article 871; Article 872 (limited to the part that involves item (v)); Article 872-2; the main clause of Article 873; Article 875; and Article 876 of the Companies Act apply mutatis mutandis to a demand under the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

The provisions of Article 139-12 apply mutatis mutandis to an incorporated financial instruments exchange disappearing in a consolidation-type merger.

①The provisions of Part II, Chapter I (excluding Article 27 (excluding items (iv) and (v)); Article 29; Article 31; Article 37, paragraph (3); Article 39; Section 6; and Article 49) of the Companies Act do not apply to the incorporation of an incorporated financial instruments exchange incorporated in a consolidation-type merger.

②The financial instruments exchanges disappearing in a consolidation-type merger prepares the articles of incorporation of the incorporated financial instruments exchange established in the consolidation-type merger.

①The incorporated financial instruments exchange incorporated in a consolidation-type merger must prepare documents or electronic or magnetic records in which the rights and obligations of the financial instruments exchanges disappearing in the consolidation-type merger to which the incorporated financial instruments exchange incorporated in the consolidation-type merger has succeeded as a result of the consolidation-type merger are stated or recorded, and other particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order as pertinent to the consolidation-type merger are stated or recorded, after the day of its establishment without delay.

②During the six-month period starting from the day of its establishment, the incorporated financial instruments exchange incorporated in a consolidation-type merger must keep the documents or electronic or magnetic records referred to in the preceding paragraph at its head office.

③The shareholder or creditor of an incorporated financial instruments exchange incorporated in a consolidation-type merger may make the following requests to the incorporated financial instruments exchange incorporated in the consolidation-type merger at any time during its business hours; provided, however, that in making the request set forth in item (ii) or (iv), the shareholder or creditor must pay the cost specified by the incorporated financial instruments exchange incorporated in the consolidation-type merger:

①A merger in which financial instruments exchanges constitute all or part of the parties (limited to a merger in which the person surviving the merger or the person incorporated in the merger is a financial instruments exchange) does not become effective without the authorization of the Prime Minister.

②A person seeking the authorization referred to in the preceding paragraph must submit a written application for authorization of a merger to the Prime Minister, in which it states the following particulars with regard to the financial instruments exchange surviving the merger or the financial instruments exchange incorporated in the merger (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "financial instruments exchange resulting from a merger" in this Division):

③Documents or electronic or magnetic records in which the content of a merger agreement (limited to those specified by Cabinet Office Order; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) are stated or recorded, and the articles of incorporation, operational rules, brokerage contract rules, and other documents or electronic or magnetic records specified by Cabinet Office Order with regard to the financial instruments exchange resulting from a merger must be attached to the written application for authorization of a merger referred to in the preceding paragraph.

①When an application for authorization under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article is filed, the Prime Minister must examine whether the application conforms to the following criteria:

②If, as a result of having conducted an examination pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister finds that an application conforms to the criteria in that paragraph, the Prime Minister must authorize the merger, except in a case that falls under any of the following items:

①A financial instruments exchange that is incorporated after obtaining the authorization referred to in Article 140, paragraph (1) is deemed to have obtained the licensed referred to in Article 80, paragraph (1) at the time of the incorporation.

②The financial instruments exchange surviving an absorption-type merger succeeds to the rights and obligations of the financial instruments exchange disappearing in the absorption-type merger (including the rights and obligations that the financial instruments exchange disappearing in the absorption-type merger has in connection with business it conducts based on the authorization or any other disposition of a government agency) on the effective date.

③The dissolution of a financial instruments exchange disappearing in an absorption-type merger as a result of the absorption-type merger may not be asserted against a third party until after the registration of the absorption-type merger.

④A financial instruments exchange incorporated in a consolidation-type merger succeeds to the rights and obligations of the financial instruments exchanges disappearing in the consolidation-type merger on the day of its establishment (including the rights and obligations that the financial instruments exchanges disappearing in the consolidation-type merger have in connection with business they conduct based on the authorization or any other disposition of a government agency).

⑤When a merger related to the authorization prescribed in Article 140, paragraph (1) is a merger where an incorporated commodity exchange (meaning the incorporated commodity exchange as defined in Article 2, paragraph (6) of the Commodity Derivatives Transaction Act; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) is part of the parties thereto and an incorporated financial instruments exchange is established as a result of the relevant merger, the relevant incorporated financial instruments exchange succeeds to the rights and obligations of the incorporated financial instruments exchange extinguished as a result of that merger (including the rights and obligations which that incorporated financial instruments exchange has in relation to its business, under authorization or any other disposition given by a government agency) on the day of the establishment.

⑥In the cases prescribed in the provisions that are set forth in the following items, the members of an incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange disappearing in an absorption-type merger, the members of an incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange operated disappearing in a consolidation-type merger, or the shareholders of an incorporated financial instruments exchange disappearing in a consolidation-type merger, become shareholders of the shares prescribed in the provisions that are set forth in the relevant item, in accordance with the provisions on the particulars provided for in that item:

⑦Share options in an incorporated financial instruments exchange that disappears as a result of a merger disappear on the effective date.

⑧The outstanding purchase and sales of securities and market derivatives transactions entered into on a financial instruments exchange market that was operated by a financial instruments exchange that has disappeared as a result of a merger are deemed to be transactions entered into on the financial instruments exchange market operated by the financial instruments exchange resulting from the merger, under the same conditions.

⑨When a merger related to the authorization referred to in Article 140, paragraph (1) is a merger in which an incorporated commodity exchange is part of the parties to the merger and an incorporated commodity exchange extinguishes as a result of that merger, the provisions of this Act apply to transactions closed on a commodity market (meaning commodity market as defined in Article 2, paragraph (9) of the Commodity Derivatives Transaction Act; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) established by the incorporated commodity exchange extinguished as a result of that merger for which settlement has not been completed (limited to transactions falling under futures trading prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of that Act concerning commodities or commodity index prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article (excluding commodity index calculated based on the prices of commodities prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article other than commodities)) by deeming the transactions as market derivatives transactions which have been closed on the financial instruments exchange market established by the financial instruments exchange resulting from a merger under the same conditions. In such a case, a commodity futures transactions dealer (meaning commodity futures transactions dealer as defined in Article 2, paragraph (23) of the Commodity Futures Trading Act; the same applies in Article 202, paragraph (2), item (iii)) that has conducted transactions which have been deemed to be the market derivatives transactions in that commodity market is deemed to be a financial instruments business operator that is a trading participant in the financial instruments exchange resulting from a merger within the scope of the purpose to complete the settlement of that transaction.

⑩The provisions of the preceding paragraphs do not apply to the following cases: