# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の二 (Article 156-2) - 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: 第百五十六条の二 (Article 156-2)（免許） — address `art-156-2` - 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-156-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-2 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条の二（免許） — (License) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-2 **第一項** 金融商品債務引受業は、内閣総理大臣の免許を受けた者でなければ、行つてはならない。 art-156-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-2/par-1 A person not licensed by the Prime Minister must not perform financial instruments obligation assumption services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 18 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-1 - 租税特別措置法 第四十二条の二第七項第一号ロ（外国金融機関等の債券現先取引等に係る利子の課税の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-42-2/par-7/item-1/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-42-2/par-7/item-1/sub-2 - 金融商品取引法 第二条第二十九項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-2/par-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-2/par-29 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十五条の三第二項第三号（認可審査基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-155-3/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-155-3/par-2/item-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の三第一項（免許の申請） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-3/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の五第二項（免許の拒否等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-5/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の十七第二項（免許の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-17/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の十九第一項（金融商品取引所による金融商品債務引受業等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-19/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十の四第一項第一号（免許審査基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-4/par-1/item-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十の十八第一項第一号（認可審査基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-18/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-18/par-1/item-1 - 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 第百五十六条の二十五第二項第四号（免許審査基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-25/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-25/par-2/item-4 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の三第一項第十三号（財務大臣への協議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-3/par-1/item-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-3/par-1/item-13 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の四第一項第三十五号（財務大臣への通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-4/par-1/item-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-4/par-1/item-35 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の四第一項第三十六号（財務大臣への通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-4/par-1/item-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-4/par-1/item-36 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の六の二第一項第三号（商品市場所管大臣への協議等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-6-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-6-2/par-1/item-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198/par-1/item-6 - 金融商品取引法 附則第百三十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4181-65/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-135/par-1 --- ## 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