# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の二十の八 (Article 156-20-8) - 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: 第百五十六条の二十の八 (Article 156-20-8)（不当な差別的取扱いの禁止） — address `art-156-20-8` - 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-156-20-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-8 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条の二十の八（不当な差別的取扱いの禁止） — (Prohibition on Unfair and Discriminatory Treatment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-20-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-8 **第一項** 外国金融商品取引清算機関は、特定の清算参加者に対し不当な差別的取扱いをしてはならない。 art-156-20-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-8/par-1 A foreign financial instruments clearing organization must not subject any particular clearing member to unfair and discriminatory treatment. 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 第百五十六条の二十二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-22/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