# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の十八 (Article 156-18) - 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: 第百五十六条の十八 (Article 156-18)（解散等の認可） — address `art-156-18` - 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-156-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-18 - 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. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百五十六条の十八（解散等の認可） — (Authorization for Dissolution) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-18 **第一項** 金融商品取引清算機関の金融商品債務引受業の廃止又は解散の決議は、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければ、その効力を生じない。 art-156-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-18/par-1 A resolution to discontinue the financial instruments obligation assumption services of a financial instruments clearing organization or a resolution to dissolve a financial instruments clearing organization does not become effective without the authorization of the Prime Minister. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-22/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の四第一項第三十八号（財務大臣への通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-4/par-1/item-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-4/par-1/item-38 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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