# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百九十四条 (Article 194) - 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: 第百九十四条 (Article 194)（議決権の代理行使の勧誘の禁止） — address `art-194` - 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-194 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194 - 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. --- ### 第百九十四条（議決権の代理行使の勧誘の禁止） — (Prohibition on Soliciting Exercise of Voting Rights by Proxy) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-194 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194 **第一項** 何人も、政令で定めるところに違反して、金融商品取引所に上場されている株式の発行会社の株式につき、自己又は第三者に議決権の行使を代理させることを勧誘してはならない。 art-194/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194/par-1 It is prohibited for any person to solicit to have a person to act as a proxy in exercising the person's or a third party's voting rights for the shares in a company issuing shares that are listed on a financial instruments exchange, in violation of the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二百五条の二の三第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-205-2-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-205-2-3/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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