# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百三十七条 (Article 137) - 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: 第百三十七条 (Article 137)（会員金融商品取引所と会員金融商品取引所との吸収合併契約） — address `art-137` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-137 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-137 - 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. --- ### 第百三十七条（会員金融商品取引所と会員金融商品取引所との吸収合併契約） — (Absorption-Type Merger Agreements between an Incorporated Association-Operated Financial Instruments Exchange and an Incorporated Association-Operated Financial Instruments Exchange) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-137 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-137 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-137 **第一項** 会員金融商品取引所と会員金融商品取引所とが吸収合併をする場合には、吸収合併契約において、次に掲げる事項を定めなければならない。 art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-137/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-137/par-1 If an incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange and an incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange implement an absorption-type merger, they must specify the following particulars in the absorption-type merger agreement: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 吸収合併後存続する会員金融商品取引所（以下この款において「吸収合併存続会員金融商品取引所」という。）及び吸収合併により消滅する会員金融商品取引所（以下この款において「吸収合併消滅会員金融商品取引所」という。）の名称及び住所 art-137/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-137/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-137/par-1/item-1 the name and address of the incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange surviving the absorption-type merger (hereinafter referred to as the "incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange surviving the absorption-type merger" in this Subsection) and the name and address of the incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange that will disappear in the absorption-type merger (hereinafter referred to as the "incorporated association-operated financial instruments exchange disappearing in the absorption-type merger" in this Subsection); and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 吸収合併がその効力を生ずる日（以下この款において「効力発生日」という。）その他内閣府令で定める事項 art-137/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-137/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-137/par-1/item-2 the day on which the absorption-type merger comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "effective date" in this Subsection) and other particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百五十四条の二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-154-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-154-2/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22