# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第八十八条の四 (Article 88-4) - 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: 第八十八条の四 (Article 88-4)（創立総会） — address `art-88-4` - 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-88-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4 - 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. --- ### 第八十八条の四（創立総会） — (Organizational Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-88-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4 **第一項** 発起人は、定款を作成した後、会員になろうとする者を募り、これを会議の日時及び場所とともにその会議開催日の二週間前までに公告して、創立総会を開かなければならない。 art-88-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4/par-1 After preparing the articles of incorporation, the founders must solicit persons seeking to become members, and hold an organizational meeting, giving public notice of those articles of incorporation, together with the date, time, and place of the meeting, by two weeks prior to the day of the meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 設立を予定する金融商品会員制法人の会員となる予定の者（以下この条、次条及び第八十八条の六において「加入予定者」という。）は、創立総会の開会までに、出資の全額を払い込まなければならない。 art-88-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4/par-2 A person planning to become a member of a financial instruments membership corporation whose incorporation is planned (hereinafter referred to as the "expected member" in this Article, the following Article and Article 88-6) must pay the full amount of the contribution before the opening of the organizational meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 定款の承認その他設立に必要な事項の決定は、創立総会の議決によらなければならない。 art-88-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4/par-3 Approval of the articles of incorporation and decisions about particulars that are necessary for incorporation must be decided by a resolution of the organizational meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 創立総会では、定款を修正することができる。 art-88-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4/par-4 The articles of incorporation may be revised at an organizational meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第三項の創立総会の議事は、加入予定者であつてその開会までに出資の全額の払込みをした者の二分の一以上が出席し、その出席者の議決権の三分の二以上で決する。 art-88-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4/par-5 The items of organizational meeting business that are referred to in paragraph (3) are decided with at least a two-thirds majority of the votes of the attendees, at a meeting where at least half of the expected members that have paid the full amount of the contribution by the opening of that meeting, are present. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 加入予定者で、金融商品会員制法人の成立の時までに出資の全額を払い込まない者は、金融商品会員制法人の成立の時に加入の申込みを取り消したものとみなす。 art-88-4/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4/par-6 An expected member that does not pay the full amount of the contribution by the time of the establishment of a financial instruments membership corporation is deemed to have rescinded its application for membership at the time of the establishment of the financial instruments membership corporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-88-4/par-2: この条 → 金融商品取引法 第八十八条の四 (Article 88-4), art-88-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4 - art-88-4/par-2: 次条 → 金融商品取引法 第八十八条の五 (Article 88-5), art-88-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-5 - art-88-4/par-2: 第八十八条の六 → 金融商品取引法 第八十八条の六 (Article 88-6), art-88-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-6 - art-88-4/par-5: 第三項 → 金融商品取引法 第八十八条の四第三項 (Article 88-4, paragraph (3)), art-88-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4/par-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第八十八条の四第二項（創立総会） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第八十八条の四第五項（創立総会） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-4/par-5 - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の六第一項（新設合併設立会員金融商品取引所の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-6/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十四条の二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-154-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-154-2/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