# 資金決済に関する法律 / Payment Services Act — 第六十三条の十六の二 (Article 63-16-2)

- Law: 資金決済に関する法律 (Payment Services Act), 平成二十一年法律第五十九号
- English title "Payment Services 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: 第六十三条の十六の二 (Article 63-16-2)（資産の国内保有） — address `art-63-16-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-63-16-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-63-16-2
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### 第六十三条の十六の二（資産の国内保有） — Holding of Assets in Japan
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-63-16-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-63-16-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-63-16-2</sup>

  **第一項**  内閣総理大臣は、公益又は利用者の保護のため必要かつ適当であると認める場合には、暗号資産交換業者に対し、その資産のうち政令で定める部分を国内において保有することを命ずることができる。
  <sup>art-63-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-63-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-63-16-2/par-1</sup>
  If the Prime Minister finds it necessary and appropriate for the public interest or the protection of users, the Prime Minister may order a cryptoasset exchange service provider to hold, within Japan, the part of its assets specified by Cabinet Order.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 資金決済に関する法律 第百九条第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-109/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-109/par-1/item-10

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 資金決済に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421AC0000000059/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-12
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Payment Services Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4477/tb), retrieved 2026-10-12
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch payment-services-act-20261012T054915-003, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 189 — 資金決済に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-12