# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百三十九条の十六 (Article 139-16) - 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: 第百三十九条の十六 (Article 139-16)（株主等に対する通知） — address `art-139-16` - 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-139-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-16 - 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. --- ### 第百三十九条の十六（株主等に対する通知） — (Notifying the Shareholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-139-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-16 **第一項** 新設合併消滅株式会社金融商品取引所は、第百三十九条の十五第一項の株主総会の決議の日から二週間以内に、その株主及び登録株式質権者並びにその新株予約権者及び登録新株予約権質権者に対し、新設合併をする旨並びに他の新設合併消滅金融商品取引所及び新設合併設立株式会社金融商品取引所の名称又は商号及び住所を通知しなければならない。 art-139-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-16/par-1 An incorporated financial instruments exchange disappearing in a consolidation-type merger must notify its shareholders and registered pledgees of shares as well as the holders of share options and registered pledgees of share options that a consolidation-type merger is to be implemented, and must indicate the names or trade names and addresses of any other financial instruments exchange disappearing in the consolidation-type merger and of the incorporated financial instruments exchange incorporated in the consolidation-type merger, within two weeks from the day of the resolution at the shareholders meeting set forth in Article 139-15, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による通知は、公告をもつてこれに代えることができる。 art-139-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-16/par-2 Public notice may be given in lieu of the notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 会社法第九百四十条第一項（第一号に係る部分に限る。）及び第三項の規定は、新設合併消滅株式会社金融商品取引所が電子公告により前項の公告をする場合について準用する。この場合において、必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。 art-139-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-16/par-3 The provisions of Article 940, paragraph (1) (limited to the part that involves item (i)) and paragraph (3) of the Companies Act apply mutatis mutandis if an incorporated financial instruments exchange disappearing in a consolidation-type merger makes the public notice referred to in the preceding paragraph through an electronic public notice. In such a case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-139-16/par-1: 第百三十九条の十五第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十五第一項 (Article 139-15, paragraph (1)), art-139-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-15/par-1 - art-139-16/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十六第一項 (Article 139-16, paragraph (1)), art-139-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-16/par-1 - art-139-16/par-3: 会社法第九百四十条第一項 → 会社法 第九百四十条第一項 (Article 940, paragraph (1)), art-940/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-940/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-940/par-1 - art-139-16/par-3: 第一号 → 会社法 第九百四十条第一項第一号 (Article 940, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-940/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-940/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-940/par-1/item-1 - art-139-16/par-3: 第三項 → 会社法 第九百四十条第三項 (Article 940, paragraph (3)), art-940/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-940/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-940/par-3 - art-139-16/par-3: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十六第二項 (Article 139-16, paragraph (2)), art-139-16/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-16/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十六第二項（株主等に対する通知） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-16/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十六第三項（株主等に対する通知） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-16/par-3 - 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 - 金融商品取引法 第二百八条第一項第二十一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-208/par-1/item-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-208/par-1/item-21 --- ## 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