# 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
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- Provision: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-5051-79/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
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### 第八条
<sup>suppl-5051-79/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-5051-79/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-5051-79/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に新金融商品取引法第二十九条の二第一項第八号に規定する行為を業として行っている金融商品取引業者（旧金融商品取引法第二十九条の二第一項第八号に規定する行為を業として行っている者を除く。）については、施行日において当該行為に係る新金融商品取引法第二十九条の二第一項第五号、第六号又は第八号に掲げる事項について変更をしようとするものとみなして、金融商品取引法第三十一条第四項の規定を適用する。この場合において、当該金融商品取引業者は、施行日から起算して六月間（当該期間内に同条第五項において準用する新金融商品取引法第二十九条の四第一項の規定による変更登録の拒否の処分があったときは、当該処分のあった日までの間とし、当該期間内に変更登録又は変更登録の拒否の処分が行われなかったときは、これらの処分があるまでの間）は、当該事項について金融商品取引法第三十一条第四項の変更登録を受けないでも、この法律の施行の際現に行っている当該行為に係る業務の顧客を相手方とし、又は当該顧客のために、この法律の施行の際現に取り扱っている新金融商品取引法第二十九条の二第一項第八号に規定する権利及びデリバティブ取引（旧金融商品取引法第二十九条の二第一項第八号に規定する権利及びデリバティブ取引を除く。）と同じ種類の権利及びデリバティブ取引について、当該行為に係る業務を行うことができる。
<sup>suppl-5051-79/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-5051-79/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-5051-79/art-8/par-1</sup>
With regard to a financial instruments business operator that is actually engaged, as a business, in the act prescribed in Article 29-2, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act at the time this Act comes into effect (excluding a person that is engaged as a business in the act prescribed in Article 29-2, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Former Financial Instruments and Exchange Act), the financial instruments business operator is deemed to be one that intends to change, as of the effective date, the matters set forth in Article 29-2, paragraph (1), item (v), (vi) or (viii) of the New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act relating to that act, and the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (4) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act apply. In this case, for the six months counted from the effective date (or, if within that period a disposition of refusal of registration of change under Article 29-4, paragraph (1) of the New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 31, paragraph (5) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act is made, until the day of that disposition, and if neither a registration of change nor a disposition of refusal of registration of change has been made within that period, until such a disposition is made), that financial instruments business operator may, even without obtaining the registration of change under Article 31, paragraph (4) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act for those matters, conduct the business relating to that act with respect to rights and derivatives transactions of the same types as the rights and derivatives transactions prescribed in Article 29-2, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (excluding the rights and derivatives transactions prescribed in Article 29-2, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Former Financial Instruments and Exchange Act) that it actually handles at the time this Act comes into effect, making the customers of the business relating to that act that it actually conducts at the time this Act comes into effect the persons to which it is directed, or conducting it for those customers.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5051-79/art-8/par-1: 新金融商品取引法第二十九条の二第一項第八号 → 金融商品取引法 第二十九条の二第一項第八号 (Article 29-2, paragraph (1), item (viii)), art-29-2/par-1/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-29-2/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-29-2/par-1/item-8
- suppl-5051-79/art-8/par-1: 新金融商品取引法第二十九条の二第一項第五号 → 金融商品取引法 第二十九条の二第一項第五号 (Article 29-2, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-29-2/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-29-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-29-2/par-1/item-5
- suppl-5051-79/art-8/par-1: 第六号 → 金融商品取引法 第二十九条の二第一項第六号 (Article 29-2, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-29-2/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-29-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-29-2/par-1/item-6
- suppl-5051-79/art-8/par-1: 金融商品取引法第三十一条第四項 → 金融商品取引法 第三十一条第四項 (Article 31, paragraph (4)), art-31/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31/par-4
- suppl-5051-79/art-8/par-1: 同条第五項 → 金融商品取引法 第三十一条第五項 (Article 31, paragraph (5)), art-31/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31/par-5
- suppl-5051-79/art-8/par-1: 新金融商品取引法第二十九条の四第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第二十九条の四第一項 (Article 29-4, paragraph (1)), art-29-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-29-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-29-4/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 金融商品取引法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-5051-79/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-5051-79/art-6/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-20261023T035921-059, 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
