# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第三十六条 (Article 36) - 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: 第三十六条 (Article 36)（顧客の利益の保護のための体制整備） — address `art-36` - 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-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条（顧客の利益の保護のための体制整備） — Establishment of a System for Protecting the Customers' Interests caption: machine translation, not official art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36 **第一項** 特定金融商品取引業者等は、当該特定金融商品取引業者等又はその親金融機関等若しくは子金融機関等が行う取引に伴い、当該特定金融商品取引業者等又はその子金融機関等が行う金融商品関連業務（金融商品取引行為に係る業務その他の内閣府令で定める業務をいう。）に係る顧客の利益が不当に害されることのないよう、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該金融商品関連業務に関する情報を適正に管理し、かつ、当該金融商品関連業務の実施状況を適切に監視するための体制の整備その他必要な措置を講じなければならない。 art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36/par-1 A specified financial instruments business operator, etc., pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, must appropriately manage information connected with financial instruments services (meaning services entailing acts that constitute financial instruments transactions and any other services specified by Cabinet Office Order), and must establish a system for properly supervising the implementation status of financial instruments services and take any other measures as are necessary, in line with the transactions that the specified financial instruments business operator, etc. or its parent financial institution, etc. or subsidiary financial institution, etc. conducts, so that the interests of the customers of the financial instruments services that the specified financial instruments business operator, etc. or its subsidiary financial institution, etc. provides are not unjustly prejudiced. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** この条において「特定金融商品取引業者等」とは、金融商品取引業者等のうち、有価証券関連業を行う金融商品取引業者（第一種金融商品取引業を行うことにつき第二十九条の登録を受けた者に限る。）その他の政令で定める者をいう。 art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36/par-2 The term "specified financial instruments business operator, etc." as used in this Article means a financial instruments business operator, etc. that conducts securities services (limited to a person registered as referred to in Article 29 to engage in type-I financial instruments business), or that is specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の「親金融機関等」とは、特定金融商品取引業者等の総株主等の議決権の過半数を保有している者その他の当該特定金融商品取引業者等と密接な関係を有する者として政令で定める者のうち、金融商品取引業者、銀行、協同組織金融機関その他政令で定める金融業を行う者をいう。 art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36/par-3 The term "parent financial institution, etc." as used in paragraph (1) means, among persons that Cabinet Order specifies as persons that hold the majority of the voting rights held by all the shareholders, etc. in a specified financial instruments business operator, etc. or as persons otherwise closely related to the relevant specified financial instruments business operator, etc., a financial instruments business operator, a bank, a cooperative financial institution, or any other person engaged in a financial business specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official **第四項** 第一項の「子金融機関等」とは、特定金融商品取引業者等が総株主等の議決権の過半数を保有している者その他の当該特定金融商品取引業者等と密接な関係を有する者として政令で定める者のうち、金融商品取引業者、銀行、協同組織金融機関その他政令で定める金融業を行う者をいう。 art-36/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36/par-4 The term "subsidiary financial institution, etc." as used in paragraph (1) means, among persons that Cabinet Order specifies as persons in which a specified financial instruments business operator, etc. holds the majority of the voting rights held by all the shareholders, etc. or as persons otherwise closely related to the relevant specified financial instruments business operator, etc., a financial instruments business operator, a bank, a cooperative financial institution, or any other person engaged in a financial business specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-36/par-2: この条 → 金融商品取引法 第三十六条 (Article 36), art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36 - art-36/par-2: 第二十九条 → 金融商品取引法 第二十九条 (Article 29), art-29 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-29 - art-36/par-3: 第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36/par-1 - art-36/par-4: 第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 資金決済に関する法律 第六十二条の十七第一項（金融商品取引法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-62-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-62-17/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第三十六条第二項（顧客の利益の保護のための体制整備） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第三十六条第三項（顧客の利益の保護のための体制整備） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第三十六条第四項（顧客の利益の保護のための体制整備） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36/par-4 - 金融商品取引法 第五十条の二第四項（廃業等の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-50-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-50-2/par-4 - 金融商品取引法 第五十六条の二第三項（報告の徴取及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-56-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-56-2/par-3 - 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 - 銀行法 第十三条の四第一項（金融商品取引法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-13-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-13-4/par-1 - 銀行法 第五十二条の二の五第一項（外国銀行代理銀行についての金融商品取引法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-2-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-2-5/par-1 - 銀行法 第五十二条の四十五の二第一項（銀行代理業者についての金融商品取引法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-45-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-45-2/par-1 - 銀行法 第五十二条の六十の十七第一項（金融商品取引法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-60-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-60-17/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T035921-006, translated 2026-10-23 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T035921-006, 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