# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第七十九条の二十六 (Article 79-26) - 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: 第七十九条の二十六 (Article 79-26)（会員の資格） — address `art-79-26` - 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-79-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-26 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条の二十六（会員の資格） — (Eligibility for Membership) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79-26 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-26 **第一項** 基金の会員の資格を有する者は、金融商品取引業者に限る。 art-79-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-26/par-1 The scope of persons eligible for membership in a fund is limited to financial instruments business operators. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 基金は、金融商品取引業者が当該基金に加入しようとするときは、業務の種類に関する特別の事由その他の正当な事由により加入を制限する場合を除き、その加入を拒み、又はその加入について不当な条件を付してはならない。 art-79-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-26/par-2 If a financial instruments business operator seeks to join a fund, the fund must not refuse it and must not attach unreasonable conditions to its joining the fund, unless entry into the fund is restricted for a special reason related to business type or for any other legitimate reason. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の四十九第二項（業務の範囲等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-49/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の四十九第四項（業務の範囲等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-49/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-49/par-4 - 金融商品取引法 第二百八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-208/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-208/par-1/item-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