# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二百条の三 (Article 200-3) - 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: 第二百条の三 (Article 200-3) — address `art-200-3` - 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-200-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-200-3 - 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. --- ### 第二百条の三 art-200-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-200-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-200-3 **第一項** 第百八十五条第二項又は第百八十五条の四第三項において準用する民事訴訟法第二百一条第一項の規定により宣誓した参考人又は鑑定人が虚偽の陳述又は鑑定をしたときは、三月以上十年以下の拘禁刑に処する。 art-200-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-200-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-200-3/par-1 If a witness or expert who has taken an oath pursuant to the provisions of Article 201, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 185, paragraph (2) or Article 185-4, paragraph (3), gives a false statement or presents a false expert opinion, that witness or expert is subject to imprisonment for not less than three months but not more than ten years. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の罪を犯した者が、審判手続終了前であつて、かつ、犯罪の発覚する前に自白したときは、その刑を減軽又は免除することができる。 art-200-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-200-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-200-3/par-2 If a person that commits the crime referred to in the preceding paragraph makes a voluntary confession prior to the completion of trial procedures and before the discovery of that crime, the sentence may be reduced or waived. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-200-3/par-1: 第百八十五条第二項 → 金融商品取引法 第百八十五条第二項 (Article 185, paragraph (2)), art-185/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-185/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-185/par-2 - art-200-3/par-1: 第百八十五条の四第三項 → 金融商品取引法 第百八十五条の四第三項 (Article 185-4, paragraph (3)), art-185-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-185-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-185-4/par-3 - art-200-3/par-1: 民事訴訟法第二百一条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百一条第一項 (Article 201, paragraph (1)), art-201/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-201/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-201/par-1 - art-200-3/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第二百条の三第一項 (Article 200-3, paragraph (1)), art-200-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-200-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-200-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二百条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-200-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-200-3/par-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