# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第十七条の四 (Article 17-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-4. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 外国為替及び外国貿易法 (Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act), 昭和二十四年法律第二百二十八号 - English title "Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade 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: 第十七条の四 (Article 17-4)（電子決済手段等取引業者等への準用） — address `art-17-4` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-4 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十七条の四（電子決済手段等取引業者等への準用） — (Application, Mutatis Mutandis, of the Relevant Provisions to an Electronic Payment Instruments Service Provider, etc.) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-17-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-4 **第一項** 第十七条及び第十七条の二の規定は、電子決済手段等取引業者等がその顧客の支払等に係る電子決済手段等の移転等を行う場合について準用する。この場合において、第十七条中「顧客と」とあるのは「顧客の」と、「為替取引」とあるのは「電子決済手段等の移転等」と、第十七条の二第一項中「為替取引」とあるのは「電子決済手段等の移転等」と、同条第二項中「外国為替取引」とあるのは「電子決済手段等の移転等」と読み替えるものとする。 art-17-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 17 and Article 17-2 apply mutatis mutandis where an electronic payment instruments service provider, etc. conducts a transfer of electronic payment instruments or any other prescribed action involving the making or receiving of a payment by its customer; in this case, the phrase "with a customer" in Article 17 is deemed to be replaced with "of a customer", the phrase "funds transfer transaction" in Article 17 is deemed to be replaced with "transfer of electronic payment instruments or any other prescribed action", the phrase "funds transfer transaction" in Article 17-2, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "transfer of electronic payment instruments or any other prescribed action", and the phrase "foreign exchange transaction" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "transfer of electronic payment instruments or any other prescribed action". machine translation, not official **第二項** 電子決済手段等取引業者等がその顧客の支払等に係る電子決済手段等の移転等を行う場合において、銀行等又は資金移動業者が発行する電子決済手段を移転するとき及び銀行等又は資金移動業者の委託を受けてその顧客の支払等に係る第十六条の二の表の一の項から四の項までの下欄に定める行為（電子決済手段の移転を除く。第十八条の六第二項において同じ。）を行うときは、当該銀行等又は資金移動業者に対しては、前三条の規定は、適用しない。 art-17-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-4/par-2 In the case an electronic payment instruments service provider, etc. conducts a transfer of electronic payment instruments or any other prescribed action involving a payment that is made or received by its customer, the provisions of the preceding three Articles do not apply to a bank or other prescribed financial institution or a funds transfer service provider, if the electronic payment instruments service provider, etc. transfers an electronic payment instrument issued by the bank or other prescribed financial institution or by the funds transfer service provider, or if the electronic payment instruments service provider, etc. conducts one of the actions stated in the right columns of rows 1 through 4 of the table in Article 16-2 involving making or receiving of a payment of its customer (excluding transfer of electronic payment instrument; hereinafter the same applies in Article 18-6, paragraph (2)) upon being entrusted by the bank or any other prescribed financial institution or by the funds transfer service provider. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In the case an electronic payment instruments service provider, etc. conducts a transfer of electronic payment instruments or any other prescribed action involving a payment that is made or received by its customer, the provisions of the preceding three Articles do not apply to a bank or other prescribed financial institution or a funds transfer service provider, if the electronic payment instruments service provider, etc. transfers electronic payment instrument issued by the bank or other prescribed financial institution or by the funds transfer service provider, or if the electronic payment instruments service provider, etc. conducts one of the actions stated in the right columns of row1 through 4 of the table in Article 16-2 involving making or receiving of a payment of its customer(excluding transfer of electronic payment instrument; hereinafter the same applies in Article 18-6 paragraphs (2)) upon being entrusted by the bank or any other prescribed financial institution or by the funds transfer service provider." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb --- ## Cites - art-17-4/par-1: 第十七条 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17 - art-17-4/par-1: 第十七条の二 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2), art-17-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-2 - art-17-4/par-1: 第十七条の二第一項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条の二第一項 (Article 17-2, paragraph (1)), art-17-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-2/par-1 - art-17-4/par-1: 同条第二項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条の二第二項 (Article 17-2, paragraph (2)), art-17-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-2/par-2 - art-17-4/par-2: 第十六条の二 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十六条の二 (Article 16-2), art-16-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-16-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-16-2 - art-17-4/par-2: 第十八条の六第二項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の六第二項 (Article 18-6, paragraph (2)), art-18-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-6/par-2 - art-17-4/par-2: 前三条 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17 - art-17-4/par-2: 前三条 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2), art-17-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-2 - art-17-4/par-2: 前三条 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条の三 (Article 17-3), art-17-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-3 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第六条第一項第九号イ（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-6/par-1/item-9/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-6/par-1/item-9/sub-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の九の三第一項（指導及び助言） — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-9-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-9-3/par-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-70/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-70/par-1/item-5 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第三条第一項（外国為替及び外国貿易法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5041-97/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-5041-97/art-3/par-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5041-97/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-5041-97/art-4/par-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5041-97/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-5041-97/art-4/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (外国為替及び外国貿易法), Article 17-4, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act-20261105T150743-001, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05