# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二百九条の三 (Article 209-3) - 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: 第二百九条の三 (Article 209-3)（没収の要件等） — address `art-209-3` - 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-209-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-209-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百九条の三（没収の要件等） — (Requirements for Confiscation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-209-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-209-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-209-3 **第一項** 第百九十八条の二第一項の規定による没収は、不法財産又は混和財産が犯人以外の者に帰属しない場合に限る。ただし、犯人以外の者が、犯罪の後情を知つて当該不法財産又は混和財産を取得した場合（法令上の義務の履行として提供されたものを収受した場合又は契約（債権者において相当の財産上の利益を提供すべきものに限る。）の時に当該契約に係る債務の履行が不法財産若しくは混和財産によつて行われることの情を知らないでした当該契約に係る債務の履行として提供されたものを収受した場合を除く。）は、当該不法財産又は混和財産が犯人以外の者に帰属する場合であつても、これを没収することができる。 art-209-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-209-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-209-3/par-1 Confiscation under the provisions of Article 198-2, paragraph (1) is limited to the case in which the illegal property or the mixed property does not belong to any person other than the perpetrator; provided, however, that if a person other than the perpetrator acquires the illegal property or the mixed property by coming to know the circumstances of the crime after the crime has been committed (excluding the case in which property that has been provided as performance of legal obligation has been received or the case in which property that has been provided as performance of obligation related to a contract (limited to a contract under which the creditor is to provide a considerable amount of economic benefit) that has been concluded without knowing that obligations under the contract are to be performed by illegal property or mixed property, at the time of concluding the contract), the illegal property or mixed property may be confiscated even when the property belongs to a person other than the perpetrator. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Confiscation under the provisions of Article 198-2, paragraph (2) is limited to the case in which the illegal property or the mixed property does not belong to any person other than the perpetrator; provided, however, that if a person other than the perpetrator acquires the illegal property or the mixed property by coming to know the circumstances of the crime after the crime has been committed (excluding the case in which property that has been provided as performance of legal obligation has been received or the case in which property that has been provided as performance of obligation related to a contract (limited to a contract under which the creditor is to provide a considerable amount of economic benefit) that has been concluded without knowing that obligations under the contract are to be performed by illegal property or mixed property, at the time of concluding the contract), the illegal property or mixed property may be confiscated even when the property belongs to a person other than the perpetrator." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb **第二項** 地上権、抵当権その他の権利がその上に存在する財産を第百九十八条の二第一項又は第二百条の二の規定により没収する場合において、犯人以外の者が犯罪の前に当該権利を取得したとき、又は犯人以外の者が犯罪の後情を知らないで当該権利を取得したときは、これを存続させるものとする。 art-209-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-209-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-209-3/par-2 If property on which a superficies right, a mortgage, or any other right exists is to be confiscated pursuant to the provisions of Article 198-2, paragraph (1) or Article 200-2, and a person other than the perpetrator has acquired the right before the crime or a person other than the perpetrator acquires the right after the crime without knowledge of the circumstances, the right is to be kept in existence. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-209-3/par-1: 第百九十八条の二第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の二第一項 (Article 198-2, paragraph (1)), art-198-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-2/par-1 - art-209-3/par-2: 第百九十八条の二第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の二第一項 (Article 198-2, paragraph (1)), art-198-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-2/par-1 - art-209-3/par-2: 第二百条の二 → 金融商品取引法 第二百条の二 (Article 200-2), art-200-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-200-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-200-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二百九条の二第一項（混和した財産の没収等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-209-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-209-2/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二百九条の四第三項（第三者の財産の没収手続等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-209-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-209-4/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第二百九条の四第四項（第三者の財産の没収手続等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-209-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-209-4/par-4 - 銀行法 第六十三条の二の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-63-2-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-63-2-3/par-2 - 銀行法 第六十八条第三項（第三者の財産の没収手続等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-68/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-23 - 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 (金融商品取引法), Article 209-3, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb), 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