# 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)（経過措置） — address `suppl-4121-96/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-4121-96/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4121-96/art-2
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### 第二条（経過措置） — Transitional Measures
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4121-96/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4121-96/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4121-96/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（附則第四条において「旧証券取引法」という。）第八十一条第二項の免許を受けている者は、施行日において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。）第二条第十三項に規定する証券会員制法人であって、新証券取引法第八十条第一項の免許を受けた者とみなす。この場合において、新証券取引法第百五十一条の規定は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4121-96/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4121-96/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4121-96/art-2/par-1</sup>
A person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, actually holds a license under Article 81, paragraph (2) of the Securities and Exchange Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (referred to as the "Former Securities and Exchange Act" in Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions) is deemed, on the effective date, to be a securities membership corporation prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (13) of the Securities and Exchange Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Securities and Exchange Act") that has received a license under Article 80, paragraph (1) of the New Securities and Exchange Act. In this case, the provisions of Article 151 of the New Securities and Exchange Act do not apply.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4121-96/art-2/par-1: 附則第四条 → 金融商品取引法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-4121-96/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4121-96/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4121-96/art-4

## Cited by

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

- 金融商品取引法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4121-96/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4121-96/art-3/par-1
- 金融商品取引法 附則第五十一条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4121-96/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4121-96/art-51/par-1

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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-20261023T033157-042, 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
