# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の三十 (Article 156-30) - 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: 第百五十六条の三十 (Article 156-30)（代表取締役等の適格性等） — address `art-156-30` - 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-156-30 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-30 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条の三十（代表取締役等の適格性等） — (Eligibility as a Representative Director) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-30 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-30 **第一項** 証券金融会社の代表取締役又は代表執行役は、金融商品取引業者の役員及び使用人以外の者でなければならない。 art-156-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-30/par-1 The representative director or representative executive officer of a securities finance company must be a person that is not the officer or employee of a financial instruments business operator. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 会社法第三百三十一条第二項ただし書（同法第三百三十五条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）、第三百三十二条第二項（同法第三百三十四条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）、第三百三十六条第二項及び第四百二条第五項ただし書の規定は、証券金融会社については、適用しない。 art-156-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-30/par-2 The provisions of the proviso to Article 331, paragraph (2) of the Companies Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 335, paragraph (1) of that Act) and of Article 332, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 334, paragraph (1) of that Act); Article 336, paragraph (2); and the proviso to Article 402, paragraph (5) of that Act do not apply to a securities finance company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-156-30/par-2: 会社法第三百三十一条第二項 → 会社法 第三百三十一条第二項 (Article 331, paragraph (2)), art-331/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-331/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-331/par-2 - art-156-30/par-2: 同法第三百三十五条第一項 → 会社法 第三百三十五条第一項 (Article 335, paragraph (1)), art-335/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-335/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-335/par-1 - art-156-30/par-2: 第三百三十二条第二項 → 会社法 第三百三十二条第二項 (Article 332, paragraph (2)), art-332/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-332/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-332/par-2 - art-156-30/par-2: 同法第三百三十四条第一項 → 会社法 第三百三十四条第一項 (Article 334, paragraph (1)), art-334/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-334/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-334/par-1 - art-156-30/par-2: 第三百三十六条第二項 → 会社法 第三百三十六条第二項 (Article 336, paragraph (2)), art-336/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-336/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-336/par-2 - art-156-30/par-2: 第四百二条第五項 → 会社法 第四百二条第五項 (Article 402, paragraph (5)), art-402/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-402/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-402/par-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の三十七第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-37/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