# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5011-60/art-2. 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（準備行為） — address `suppl-5011-60/art-2` - 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/suppl-5011-60/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-5011-60/art-2 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（準備行為） — Preparatory Acts caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5011-60/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5011-60/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-5011-60/art-2 **第一項** 財務大臣及び事業所管大臣は、この法律の施行の日（次条において「施行日」という。）前においても、この法律による改正後の外国為替及び外国貿易法（以下「新法」という。）第二十七条の二第二項及び第二十八条の二第二項の規定の例により、関税・外国為替等審議会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-5011-60/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5011-60/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-5011-60/art-2/par-1 The Minister of Finance and the competent minister for the business may, even before the day on which this Act comes into effect (referred to as the "Effective Date" in the following Article), hear the opinions of the Council on Customs, Tariffs, Foreign Exchange, and Other Transactions in the same manner as provided for in Article 27-2, paragraph (2) and Article 28-2, paragraph (2) of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act after its amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act"). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5011-60/art-2/par-1: 次条 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-5011-60/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5011-60/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-5011-60/art-3 - suppl-5011-60/art-2/par-1: 第二十七条の二第二項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第二十七条の二第二項 (Article 27-2, paragraph (2)), art-27-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-27-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-27-2/par-2 - suppl-5011-60/art-2/par-1: 第二十八条の二第二項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第二十八条の二第二項 (Article 28-2, paragraph (2)), art-28-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-28-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-28-2/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5011-60/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-5011-60/art-1/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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-20261105T150743-008, 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