# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第三十一条の五 (Article 31-5) - 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: 第三十一条の五 (Article 31-5)（取締役等の適格性等） — address `art-31-5` - 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-31-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-5 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条の五（取締役等の適格性等） — (Eligibility as a Director) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-5 **第一項** 会社法第三百三十一条第二項ただし書（同法第三百三十五条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）、第三百三十二条第二項（同法第三百三十四条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）、第三百三十六条第二項及び第四百二条第五項ただし書の規定は、金融商品取引業者（第一種金融商品取引業又は投資運用業を行う者に限る。）については、適用しない。 art-31-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-5/par-1 The provisions of the proviso to Article 331, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 335, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act); Article 332, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 334, paragraph (1) of that Act); Article 336, paragraph (2); and the proviso to Article 402, paragraph (5) of that Act do not apply to financial instruments business operators (limited to those engaged in type-I financial instruments business or investment management business). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-31-5/par-1: 会社法第三百三十一条第二項 → 会社法 第三百三十一条第二項 (Article 331, paragraph (2)), art-331/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-331/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-331/par-2 - art-31-5/par-1: 同法第三百三十五条第一項 → 会社法 第三百三十五条第一項 (Article 335, paragraph (1)), art-335/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-335/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-335/par-1 - art-31-5/par-1: 第三百三十二条第二項 → 会社法 第三百三十二条第二項 (Article 332, paragraph (2)), art-332/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-332/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-332/par-2 - art-31-5/par-1: 同法第三百三十四条第一項 → 会社法 第三百三十四条第一項 (Article 334, paragraph (1)), art-334/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-334/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-334/par-1 - art-31-5/par-1: 第三百三十六条第二項 → 会社法 第三百三十六条第二項 (Article 336, paragraph (2)), art-336/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-336/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-336/par-2 - art-31-5/par-1: 第四百二条第五項 → 会社法 第四百二条第五項 (Article 402, paragraph (5)), art-402/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-402/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-402/par-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第六十五条の四第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-65-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-65-4/par-1 --- ## 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