# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二百五条の二 (Article 205-2) - 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: 第二百五条の二 (Article 205-2) — address `art-205-2` - 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-205-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-205-2 - 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. --- ### 第二百五条の二 art-205-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-205-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-205-2 **第一項** 第百五十六条の四十八若しくは第百五十六条の五十第九項の規定による記録の作成若しくは保存をせず、又は虚偽の記録を作成したときは、当該違反行為をした者は、百万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-205-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-205-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-205-2/par-1 If there is a failure to prepare or preserve the records under Article 156-48 or Article 156-50, paragraph (9), or a false record is prepared, the person who committed the violation is subject to punishment by a fine of not more than one million yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-205-2/par-1: 第百五十六条の四十八 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の四十八 (Article 156-48), art-156-48 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-48 - art-205-2/par-1: 第百五十六条の五十第九項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の五十第九項 (Article 156-50, paragraph (9)), art-156-50/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-50/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-50/par-9 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二百七条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-207/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-207/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T035921-020, translated 2026-10-23 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22