# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

- 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3461-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4
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## 附　則 昭和四六年三月三日法律第四号
<sup>suppl-3461-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、公布の日から起算して四月をこえない範囲内で政令で定める日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-3461-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding four months from the date of promulgation.
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**第二項**  この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）前に募集又は売出しを開始した改正前の証券取引法（以下「旧法」という。）第三条第二項に規定する有価証券については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3461-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-2</sup>
With regard to securities prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the Securities and Exchange Act before the amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") for which a public offering or secondary distribution was commenced before the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "effective date"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.
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**第三項**  改正後の証券取引法（以下「新法」という。）第四条から第十三条まで、第十五条、第十六条及び第十八条から第二十三条までの規定は、附則第五項に定めるものを除き、施行日以後に開始する有価証券の募集又は売出し（同日前にした旧法第四条第一項の規定による届出に係るものを除く。）及び当該募集又は売出しに係る有価証券の取引について適用し、同日前に開始した有価証券の募集又は売出し及び同日前にした旧法第四条第一項の規定による届出に係る有価証券の募集又は売出しで同日以後に開始するもの並びにこれらの募集又は売出しに係る有価証券の取引については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3461-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-3</sup>
The provisions of Article 4 through Article 13, Article 15, Article 16, and Article 18 through Article 23 of the Securities and Exchange Act after the amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") apply, except as provided for in paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions, to a public offering or secondary distribution of securities commenced on or after the effective date (excluding one pertaining to a notification made under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Former Act before the effective date) and to securities trading pertaining to that public offering or secondary distribution, and the provisions then in force continue to govern a public offering or secondary distribution of securities commenced before the effective date, a public offering or secondary distribution of securities pertaining to a notification made under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Former Act before the effective date that is commenced on or after the effective date, and securities trading pertaining to those public offerings or secondary distributions.
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**第四項**  新法第四条第二項の規定は、施行日から四十日を経過する日までの間における一定の日において株主名簿に記載されている株主に対し行なわれる有価証券の募集又は売出しについては、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-3461-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-4</sup>
The provisions of Article 4, paragraph (2) of the New Act do not apply to a public offering or secondary distribution of securities made to shareholders that are stated or recorded in the shareholder register as of a certain date within the period until the day on which 40 days have elapsed from the effective date.
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**第五項**  新法第二十四条から第二十四条の四までの規定は、施行日以後に終了する事業年度に係る新法第二十四条第一項の規定による有価証券報告書（その添附書類及びこれらの訂正報告書を含む。以下この項において同じ。）又は同日以後に同条第二項に規定する事実が生じた場合の同項の規定による有価証券報告書について適用し、同日前に終了した事業年度に係る旧法第二十四条第一項の規定による報告書（その訂正報告書を含む。以下「旧有価証券報告書」という。）については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3461-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-5</sup>
The provisions of Article 24 through Article 24-4 of the New Act apply to an annual securities report under the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) of the New Act for a business year ending on or after the effective date (including its attached documents and the amended reports of these; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) or an annual securities report under the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article in the case where a fact prescribed in that paragraph occurs on or after the effective date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern a report under the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Former Act for a business year that ended before the effective date (including its amended report; hereinafter referred to as a "former annual securities report").
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**第六項**  施行日前にその募集又は売出しにつき旧法第四条第一項の規定による届出があつた有価証券の発行者である会社は、同日において新法第四条第一項本文の規定の適用を受けた有価証券の発行者である会社とみなして、新法第二十四条第一項の規定を適用する。
<sup>suppl-3461-4/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-6</sup>
A company that is an issuer of securities for whose public offering or secondary distribution a notification under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Former Act was made before the effective date is deemed to be a company that is an issuer of securities to which the main clause of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the New Act applied on the effective date, and the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) of the New Act apply.
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**第七項**  新法第二十四条の五第一項に規定する会社は、施行日の属する事業年度については、同項の規定による半期報告書を提出することを要しない。
<sup>suppl-3461-4/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-7</sup>
A company prescribed in Article 24-5, paragraph (1) of the New Act is not required to submit a semiannual securities report under the provisions of that paragraph for the business year that includes the effective date.
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**第八項**  施行日前に終了した事業年度に係る旧法第百十八条第一項の規定による報告書（その訂正報告書を含む。以下「上場有価証券報告書」という。）については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3461-4/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-8</sup>
With regard to a report under the provisions of Article 118, paragraph (1) of the Former Act for a business year that ended before the effective date (including its amended report; hereinafter referred to as a "listed securities report"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.
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**第九項**  附則第三項及び第六項並びに前項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる有価証券の募集又は売出しに係る有価証券届出書、旧有価証券報告書及び上場有価証券報告書並びにこれらの書類の写しの公衆縦覧については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3461-4/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-9</sup>
With regard to a securities registration statement pertaining to a public offering or secondary distribution of securities for which the provisions then in force are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (3) and (6) of the Supplementary Provisions and the preceding paragraph, a former annual securities report and a listed securities report, and the public inspection of copies of these documents, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
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**第十項**  施行日前にした行為並びにこの附則の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる有価証券の募集又は売出し、当該募集又は売出しに係る有価証券の取引、旧有価証券報告書、上場有価証券報告書及び前項の公衆縦覧に係る同日以後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3461-4/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-10</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the effective date, and to acts committed on or after that date in relation to a public offering or secondary distribution of securities for which the provisions then in force are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, securities trading pertaining to that public offering or secondary distribution, a former annual securities report, a listed securities report, and the public inspection under the preceding paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
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## Cites
- suppl-3461-4/par-3: 附則第五項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第五項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (5)), suppl-3461-4/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-5
- suppl-3461-4/par-5: この項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第五項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (5)), suppl-3461-4/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-5
- suppl-3461-4/par-9: 附則第三項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (3)), suppl-3461-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-3
- suppl-3461-4/par-9: 第六項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第六項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (6)), suppl-3461-4/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-6
- suppl-3461-4/par-9: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第八項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (8)), suppl-3461-4/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-8
- suppl-3461-4/par-10: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第九項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (9)), suppl-3461-4/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-9

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 金融商品取引法 附則第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-3
- 金融商品取引法 附則第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-5
- 金融商品取引法 附則第九項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-9
- 金融商品取引法 附則第十項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3461-4/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-3461-4/par-10

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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-20261023T035921-023, 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
