# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百六十一条の二 (Article 161-2) - 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: 第百六十一条の二 (Article 161-2)（信用取引等における金銭の預託） — address `art-161-2` - 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-161-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-161-2 - 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. --- ### 第百六十一条の二（信用取引等における金銭の預託） — (Depositing Money for Margin Transactions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-161-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-161-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-161-2 **第一項** 信用取引その他の内閣府令で定める取引については、金融商品取引業者は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、顧客から、当該取引に係る有価証券の時価に内閣総理大臣が有価証券の売買その他の取引の公正を確保することを考慮して定める率を乗じた額を下らない額の金銭の預託を受けなければならない。 art-161-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-161-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-161-2/par-1 In a margin transaction or other transaction specified by Cabinet Office Order, a financial instruments business operator, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, must receive money that a customer deposits with it in an amount not less than that arrived at by multiplying the market value of the securities for which the transaction is to be conducted by the rate decided by the Prime Minister with a view to ensuring fairness in purchase and sales and other transactions of securities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の金銭は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、有価証券をもつて充てることができる。 art-161-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-161-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-161-2/par-2 Securities may serve as the money referred to in the preceding paragraph, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-161-2/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百六十一条の二第一項 (Article 161-2, paragraph (1)), art-161-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-161-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-161-2/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の二十三第四項（大量保有報告書の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-23/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-23/par-4 - 金融商品取引法 第四十三条の二第一項第一号（分別管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-43-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-43-2/par-1/item-1 - 金融商品取引法 第四十三条の二第二項第一号（分別管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-43-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-43-2/par-2/item-1 - 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の二十第三項第一号（一般顧客等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-20/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-20/par-3/item-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百六十一条の二第二項（信用取引等における金銭の預託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-161-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-161-2/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第二百八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-208/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-208/par-1/item-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