# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第四十条の三の四 (Article 40-3-4)

- 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: 第四十条の三の四 (Article 40-3-4)（出資対象事業の状況に係る情報が提供されていない場合の募集等の禁止） — address `art-40-3-4`
- 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-40-3-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-40-3-4
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### 第四十条の三の四（出資対象事業の状況に係る情報が提供されていない場合の募集等の禁止） — Prohibition of Public Offering If Information on the Status of Business Subject to Investment Has Not Been Provided
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-40-3-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-40-3-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-40-3-4</sup>

    **第一項**  金融商品取引業者等は、貸付事業等権利については、当該貸付事業等権利を有する者に前条に規定する契約その他の法律行為に基づき提供されるべき情報が提供されていないことを知りながら、第二条第八項第七号から第九号までに掲げる行為をしてはならない。
    <sup>art-40-3-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-40-3-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-40-3-4/par-1</sup>
    With regard to rights in a lending business, etc., a financial instruments business operator, etc. must not perform the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (vii) through (ix) knowing that the information that should be provided to the person who holds those rights based on the contract or other juridical act prescribed in the preceding Article has not been provided.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-40-3-4/par-1: 前条 → 金融商品取引法 第四十条の三の三 (Article 40-3-3), art-40-3-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-40-3-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-40-3-3
- art-40-3-4/par-1: 第二条第八項第七号から第九号まで → 金融商品取引法 第二条第八項第七号 (Article 2, paragraph (8), item (vii)), art-2/par-8/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-2/par-8/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-2/par-8/item-7
- art-40-3-4/par-1: 第二条第八項第七号から第九号まで → 金融商品取引法 第二条第八項第八号 (Article 2, paragraph (8), item (viii)), art-2/par-8/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-2/par-8/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-2/par-8/item-8
- art-40-3-4/par-1: 第二条第八項第七号から第九号まで → 金融商品取引法 第二条第八項第九号 (Article 2, paragraph (8), item (ix)), art-2/par-8/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-2/par-8/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-2/par-8/item-9

## Cited by

6 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

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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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T035921-007, 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
