# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（外務員の登録に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4041-73/art-2`
- 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-4041-73/art-2
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### 第二条（外務員の登録に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Registration of Sales Representatives
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4041-73/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4041-73/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4041-73/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に第一条の規定による改正前の証券取引法（以下「旧証券取引法」という。）第六十五条の二第一項の認可を受けている銀行、信託会社その他同項の政令で定める金融機関は、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）から六月間は、第一条の規定による改正後の証券取引法（以下「新証券取引法」という。）第六十五条の二第三項において準用する新証券取引法第六十二条第二項の規定にかかわらず、同条第一項の規定により登録を受けた者以外の者に外務員の職務を行わせることができる。その者につきその期間内に同項の登録を申請した場合において、その申請について登録をする旨の通知を受ける日又はその申請についてその期間の経過後登録をしない旨の通知を受ける日までの間も、同様とする。
<sup>suppl-4041-73/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4041-73/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4041-73/art-2/par-1</sup>
A bank, trust company or other financial institution specified by Cabinet Order in Article 65-2, paragraph (1) of the Securities and Exchange Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Securities and Exchange Act") that, at the time this Act comes into effect, actually holds the authorization referred to in that paragraph may, for six months from the date of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as "the effective date"), notwithstanding Article 62, paragraph (2) of the Securities and Exchange Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Securities and Exchange Act") as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 65-2, paragraph (3) of the New Securities and Exchange Act, have a person other than a person registered pursuant to the provisions of Article 62, paragraph (1) of the New Securities and Exchange Act perform the duties of a sales representative; the same applies, where an application for the registration referred to in that paragraph has been filed within that period with respect to that person, during the period until the day on which notice is received that registration will be made upon that application or the day on which notice is received, after the lapse of that period, that registration will not be made upon that application.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261023T033157-032, translated 2026-10-23
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T033157-032, 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
