# 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)（第一条の規定による証券取引法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4181-65/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-4181-65/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-2
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### 第二条（第一条の規定による証券取引法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Securities and Exchange Act by the Provisions of Article 1
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4181-65/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4181-65/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  第一条の規定による改正後の証券取引法第百七十四条の規定は、この法律の公布の日から起算して二十日を経過した日以後に開始される同条第一項に規定する違反行為について適用する。
<sup>suppl-4181-65/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4181-65/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-2/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 174 of the Securities and Exchange Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 apply to violations prescribed in Article 174, paragraph (1) of the Securities and Exchange Act as so amended that commence on or after the day on which 20 days have elapsed from the date of promulgation of this Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 金融商品取引法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4181-65/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261023T035921-039, 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
