# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第五十六条の三 (Article 56-3) - 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: 第五十六条の三 (Article 56-3)（資産の国内保有） — address `art-56-3` - 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-56-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-56-3 - 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. 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. --- ### 第五十六条の三（資産の国内保有） — (Retention of Assets Within Japan) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-56-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-56-3 **第一項** 第四十九条の五に定めるもののほか、内閣総理大臣は、公益又は投資者保護のため必要かつ適当であると認める場合には、金融商品取引業者に対し、その資産のうち政令で定める部分を国内において保有することを命ずることができる。 art-56-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-56-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-56-3/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in Article 49-5, if the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors, the Prime Minister may order a financial instruments business operator to keep the portion of its assets that is specified by Cabinet Order within Japan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-56-3/par-1: 第四十九条の五 → 金融商品取引法 第四十九条の五 (Article 49-5), art-49-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-49-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-49-5 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第五十七条第二項（審問等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-57/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第五十七条第三項（審問等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-57/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-57/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 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の六第一項第十一号の二 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-6/par-1/item-11-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-6/par-1/item-11-2 - 金融商品取引法 附則第四十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4181-65/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-47/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