# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の二十の十四 (Article 156-20-14) - 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: 第百五十六条の二十の十四 (Article 156-20-14)（免許の取消し等） — address `art-156-20-14` - 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-156-20-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-14 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条の二十の十四（免許の取消し等） — (Rescission of Licenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-20-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-14 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、外国金融商品取引清算機関がその免許を受けた当時既に第百五十六条の二十の四第二項各号のいずれかに該当していたことが判明したときは、その免許を取り消すことができる。 art-156-20-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-14/par-1 If a foreign financial instruments clearing organization is discovered to have fallen under any of the categories in the items of Article 156-20-4, paragraph (2) at the time it was licensed, the Prime Minister may rescind the license. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 内閣総理大臣は、外国金融商品取引清算機関が法令又は法令に基づく行政官庁の処分に違反したときは、第百五十六条の二十の二の免許を取り消し、六月以内の期間を定めてその業務の全部若しくは一部の停止を命じ、又はその国内における代表者（国内に事務所がある場合にあつては、当該事務所に駐在する役員を含む。）の解任を命ずることができる。 art-156-20-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-14/par-2 If a foreign financial instruments clearing organization violates a law or regulation or a disposition by a government agency which is based on a law or regulation, the Prime Minister may rescind the license referred to in Article 156-20-2, order the suspension of all or part of its business during a fixed period of no longer than six months, or order the dismissal of its domestic representative (if a foreign financial instruments clearing organization has a domestic office, this includes any officer stationed there). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-156-20-14/par-1: 第百五十六条の二十の四第二項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十の四第二項 (Article 156-20-4, paragraph (2)), art-156-20-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-4/par-2 - art-156-20-14/par-2: 第百五十六条の二十の二 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十の二 (Article 156-20-2), art-156-20-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-2 ## Cited by 14 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第八十二条第二項第三号ロ（免許審査基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-82/par-2/item-3/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-82/par-2/item-3/sub-2 - 金融商品取引法 第八十二条第二項第三号ホ（免許審査基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-82/par-2/item-3/sub-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-82/par-2/item-3/sub-5 - 金融商品取引法 第百六条の四第二項（認可基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-106-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-106-4/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百六条の十八第二項（主要株主に係る認可基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-106-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-106-18/par-2 - 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 第百五十六条の五の六第二項（主要株主に係る認可基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-5-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-5-6/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十の四第二項第三号（免許審査基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-4/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-4/par-2/item-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十の十八第二項第三号（認可審査基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-18/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-18/par-2/item-3 - 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 第百九十四条の三第一項第十四号の二（財務大臣への協議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-3/par-1/item-14-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-3/par-1/item-14-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の三第一項第十四号の三（財務大臣への協議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-3/par-1/item-14-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-3/par-1/item-14-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の四第一項第三十八号の三（財務大臣への通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-4/par-1/item-38-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-4/par-1/item-38-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の四第一項第三十八号の四（財務大臣への通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-4/par-1/item-38-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-4/par-1/item-38-4 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の五第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-5/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-5/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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