# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百四十九条 (Article 149) - 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: 第百四十九条 (Article 149)（定款等の変更の認可等） — address `art-149` - 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-149 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-149 - 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. --- ### 第百四十九条（定款等の変更の認可等） — (Authorization to Change the Articles of Incorporation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-149 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-149 **第一項** 金融商品取引所は、定款、業務規程又は受託契約準則を変更しようとするときは、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-149/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-149/par-1 A financial instruments exchange must obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister if it seeks to change its articles of incorporation, operational rules, or brokerage contract rules. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 金融商品取引所は、第八十一条第一項第二号又は第三号に掲げる事項について変更があつたときは、遅滞なく、その旨を内閣総理大臣に届け出なければならない。金融商品取引所の規則（定款、業務規程、受託契約準則及び第百五十六条の十九第一項の承認を受けて行う金融商品債務引受業に係る業務方法書を除く。）の作成、変更又は廃止があつたとき及び第八十七条の二第一項ただし書の認可を受けて行う業務の全部を廃止したときも、同様とする。 art-149/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-149/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-149/par-2 If a particular set forth in Article 81, paragraph (1), item (ii) or (iii) changes, the financial instruments exchange must notify the Prime Minister of that fact without delay. The same applies if the rules of a financial instruments exchange (excluding the articles of incorporation, operational rules, and brokerage contract rules, and business rules for providing financial instruments obligation assumption services under Article 156-19, paragraph (1) approval) are prepared, changed, or discontinued, or if all business conducted with the authorization referred to in the proviso to Article 87-2, paragraph (1) is discontinued. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-149/par-2: 第八十一条第一項第二号 → 金融商品取引法 第八十一条第一項第二号 (Article 81, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-81/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-81/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-81/par-1/item-2 - art-149/par-2: 第三号 → 金融商品取引法 第八十一条第一項第三号 (Article 81, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-81/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-81/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-81/par-1/item-3 - art-149/par-2: 第百五十六条の十九第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の十九第一項 (Article 156-19, paragraph (1)), art-156-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-19/par-1 - art-149/par-2: 第八十七条の二第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第八十七条の二第一項 (Article 87-2, paragraph (1)), art-87-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-87-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-87-2/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十三条の四第一項（自主規制法人に対する監督規定の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-153-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-153-4/par-1 - 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 第百九十四条の四第一項第二十九号（財務大臣への通知） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-4/par-1/item-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-4/par-1/item-29 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の六の二第一項第二号ロ（商品市場所管大臣への協議等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-6-2/par-1/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-6-2/par-1/item-2/sub-2 - 金融商品取引法 第二百六条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-206/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-206/par-1/item-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二百六条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-206/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-206/par-1/item-2 - 金融商品取引法 第二百八条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-208/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-208/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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