# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二百二十一条 (Article 221)

- 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: 第二百二十一条 (Article 221)（領置物件等の処置） — address `art-221`
- 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-221
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-221
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### 第二百二十一条（領置物件等の処置） — (Handling of Retained Objects)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-221 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-221 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-221</sup>

**第一項**  運搬又は保管に不便な領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件は、その所有者又は所持者その他委員会職員が適当と認める者に、その承諾を得て、保管証を徴して保管させることができる。
<sup>art-221/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-221/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-221/par-1</sup>
A Commission official may collect a storage certificate and have the owner or possessor of a retained object, seized object, or object seized with an order to produce a copy of records that is inconvenient to transport or store, or any other person that the Commission official finds to be appropriate, store that object, with the consent of the person in question.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 金融商品取引法 第二百二十四条第二項（財務局等職員の犯則調査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-224/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-224/par-2
- 金融商品取引法 第二百二十六条第二項（委員会の告発等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-226/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-226/par-2

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## 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
