# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（権限の委任） — address `suppl-4141-65/art-8`
- 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-4141-65/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4141-65/art-8
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### 第八条（権限の委任） — Delegation of Authority
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4141-65/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4141-65/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4141-65/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  内閣総理大臣は、附則第五条第二項及び前条第二項の規定による権限を金融庁長官に委任する。
<sup>suppl-4141-65/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4141-65/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4141-65/art-8/par-1</sup>
The Prime Minister is to delegate the authority under Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article to the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4141-65/art-8/par-1: 附則第五条第二項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第五条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (2)), suppl-4141-65/art-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4141-65/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4141-65/art-5/par-2

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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-20261023T035921-035, 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