# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百三十九条の七 (Article 139-7) - Law: 金融商品取引法 (Financial Instruments and Exchange Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二十五号 - English title "Financial Instruments and Exchange Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百三十九条の七 (Article 139-7)（吸収合併契約に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — address `art-139-7` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百三十九条の七（吸収合併契約に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — (Keeping and Inspection of Absorption-Type Merger Agreement Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-139-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7 **第一項** 吸収合併存続株式会社金融商品取引所（会員金融商品取引所と株式会社金融商品取引所とが吸収合併をする場合における当該吸収合併存続株式会社金融商品取引所に限る。以下この目において同じ。）は、次に掲げる日のいずれか早い日から効力発生日後六月を経過する日までの間、吸収合併契約の内容その他内閣府令で定める事項を記載し、又は記録した書面又は電磁的記録をその本店に備え置かなければならない。 art-139-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-1 During the period from any of the following days, whichever comes the earliest, until the day on which six months have elapsed since the effective date, an incorporated financial instruments exchange surviving an absorption-type merger (limited to the incorporated financial instruments exchange surviving the absorption-type merger in an absorption-type merger between an incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange and an incorporated financial instruments exchange; hereinafter the same applies in this Division) must keep documents or electronic or magnetic records in which the content of the absorption-type merger agreement and other particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order are stated or recorded, at its head office: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 吸収合併契約について株主総会（種類株主総会を含む。以下この号において同じ。）の決議によつてその承認を受けなければならないときは、当該株主総会の日の二週間前の日 art-139-7/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-1/item-1 if approval for the absorption-type merger agreement must be obtained by a shareholders resolution (including a class shareholders resolution; hereinafter the same applies in this item): the day two weeks prior to the day of the relevant shareholders meeting; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第百三十九条の十第一項の規定による通知の日又は同条第二項の公告の日のいずれか早い日 art-139-7/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-1/item-2 the day of the notice under the provisions of Article 139-10, paragraph (1) or the day of the public notice under Article 139-10, paragraph (2), whichever comes earlier; or Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the day of the notice under the provsions of Article 139-10, paragraph (1) or the day of the public notice under Article 139-10, paragraph (2), whichever comes earlier; or" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb **三** 第百三十九条の十二の規定による手続をしなければならないときは、同条第二項の規定による公告の日又は同項の規定による催告の日のいずれか早い日 art-139-7/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-1/item-3 if the procedures under Article 139-12 are required: the day of the public notice under Article 139-12, paragraph (2) or the day of the notice under that paragraph, whichever comes earlier. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 吸収合併存続株式会社金融商品取引所の株主及び債権者は、吸収合併存続株式会社金融商品取引所に対して、その営業時間内は、いつでも、次に掲げる請求をすることができる。ただし、第二号又は第四号に掲げる請求をするには、当該吸収合併存続株式会社金融商品取引所の定めた費用を支払わなければならない。 art-139-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2 The shareholder or creditor of an incorporated financial instruments exchange surviving an absorption-type merger may make the following requests of the incorporated financial instruments exchange surviving the absorption-type merger at any time during business hours; provided, however, that in making the request set forth in item (ii) or (iv), the shareholder or creditor must pay the cost determined by the incorporated financial instruments exchange surviving the absorption-type merger: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 前項の書面の閲覧の請求 art-139-7/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2/item-1 a request to inspect a document referred to in the preceding paragraph; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 前項の書面の謄本又は抄本の交付の請求 art-139-7/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2/item-2 a request to be issued a certified copy or extract of a document referred to in the preceding paragraph; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前項の電磁的記録に記録された事項を内閣府令で定める方法により表示したものの閲覧の請求 art-139-7/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2/item-3 a request to inspect a thing that displays the particulars that have been recorded in the electronic or magnetic records referred to in the preceding paragraph, through a means specified by Cabinet Office Order; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 前項の電磁的記録に記録された事項を電磁的方法であつて内閣府令で定めるものにより提供することの請求又はその事項を記載した書面の交付の請求 art-139-7/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2/item-4 a request to be provided with the particulars that have been recorded in the electronic or magnetic records referred to in the preceding paragraph by an electronic or magnetic means specified by Cabinet Office Order, or a request to be issued a document that states those particulars. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-139-7/par-1/item-1: この号 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第一項第一号 (Article 139-7, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-139-7/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-1/item-1 - art-139-7/par-1/item-2: 第百三十九条の十第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十第一項 (Article 139-10, paragraph (1)), art-139-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-10/par-1 - art-139-7/par-1/item-2: 同条第二項 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十第二項 (Article 139-10, paragraph (2)), art-139-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-10/par-2 - art-139-7/par-1/item-3: 第百三十九条の十二 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十二 (Article 139-12), art-139-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-12 - art-139-7/par-1/item-3: 同条第二項 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十二第二項 (Article 139-12, paragraph (2)), art-139-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-12/par-2 - art-139-7/par-2: 第二号 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第二項第二号 (Article 139-7, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-139-7/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2/item-2 - art-139-7/par-2: 第四号 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第二項第四号 (Article 139-7, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-139-7/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2/item-4 - art-139-7/par-2/item-1: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第一項 (Article 139-7, paragraph (1)), art-139-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-1 - art-139-7/par-2/item-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第一項 (Article 139-7, paragraph (1)), art-139-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-1 - art-139-7/par-2/item-3: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第一項 (Article 139-7, paragraph (1)), art-139-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-1 - art-139-7/par-2/item-4: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第一項 (Article 139-7, paragraph (1)), art-139-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第一項第一号（吸収合併契約に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-1/item-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第二項（吸収合併契約に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第二項第一号（吸収合併契約に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2/item-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第二項第二号（吸収合併契約に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2/item-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第二項第三号（吸収合併契約に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2/item-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の七第二項第四号（吸収合併契約に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-7/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-7/par-2/item-4 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十四条の二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-154-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-154-2/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二百八条第一項第二十号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-208/par-1/item-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-208/par-1/item-20 - 金融商品取引法 第二百八条第一項第二十五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-208/par-1/item-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-208/par-1/item-25 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-23 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 金融商品取引法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000025/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-22 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (金融商品取引法), Article 139-7, paragraph (1), item (ii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb), retrieved 2026-10-22 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb), retrieved 2026-10-22 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22