# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の五十四 (Article 156-54) - 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: 第百五十六条の五十四 (Article 156-54)（名称の使用制限） — address `art-156-54` - 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-156-54 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-54 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条の五十四（名称の使用制限） — (Restriction on the Use of Names) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-54 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-54 **第一項** 指定紛争解決機関でない者（銀行法第五十二条の六十二第一項の規定による指定を受けた者その他これに類する者として政令で定めるものを除く。）は、その名称又は商号中に、指定紛争解決機関と誤認されるおそれのある文字を用いてはならない。 art-156-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-54/par-1 A person that is not a designated dispute resolution organization (other than a person that has obtained the designation under Article 52-62, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act or any other person specified by Cabinet Order as being similar thereto) must not use a term in its name or trade name which could give rise to the misconception that it is a designated dispute resolution organization. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-156-54/par-1: 銀行法第五十二条の六十二第一項 → 銀行法 第五十二条の六十二第一項 (Article 52-62, paragraph (1)), art-52-62/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-62/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二百九条第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-209/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-209/par-1/item-10 --- ## 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