# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の七十二 (Article 156-72) - 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: 第百五十六条の七十二 (Article 156-72)（兼業の制限） — address `art-156-72` - 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-156-72 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-72 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条の七十二（兼業の制限） — (Restriction on Concurrent Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-72 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-72 **第一項** 取引情報蓄積機関は、取引情報蓄積業務及び取引情報蓄積業務に付随する業務のほか、他の業務を行うことができない。ただし、当該取引情報蓄積機関が取引情報蓄積業務を適正かつ確実に行うにつき支障を生ずるおそれがないと認められる業務について、内閣府令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣の承認を受けたときは、この限りでない。 art-156-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-72/par-1 A trade repository may not conduct business other than trade repository business and business incidental to this; provided, however, that this does not apply if the trade repository has obtained the approval of the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, for business that is found to be unlikely to compromise the trade repository to properly and reliably conduct trade repository business. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 取引情報蓄積機関は、前項ただし書の承認を受けた業務を廃止したときは、当該承認は、その効力を失う。この場合において、取引情報蓄積機関は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、その旨を内閣総理大臣に届け出なければならない。 art-156-72/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-72/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-72/par-2 If a trade repository discontinues business for which the trade depository has obtained the approval referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, the approval ceases to be effective. In such a case, the trade repository must notify the Prime Minister of this pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第百五十六条の六十八第一項の指定申請書に申請者が取引情報蓄積業務及び取引情報蓄積業務に付随する業務以外の業務を行う旨の記載がある場合において、当該申請者が第百五十六条の六十七第一項の規定による指定を受けたときは、当該業務を行うことにつき第一項ただし書の承認を受けたものとみなす。 art-156-72/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-72/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-72/par-3 If the written application for designation referred to in Article 156-68, paragraph (1) states that the applicant will conduct business other than trade repository business and business incidental to this, and the applicant has received the designation under the provisions of Article 156-67, paragraph (1), the applicant is deemed to have obtained the approval referred to in the proviso to paragraph (1) for conducting that business. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-156-72/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の七十二第一項 (Article 156-72, paragraph (1)), art-156-72/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-72/par-1 - art-156-72/par-3: 第百五十六条の六十八第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の六十八第一項 (Article 156-68, paragraph (1)), art-156-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-68/par-1 - art-156-72/par-3: 第百五十六条の六十七第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の六十七第一項 (Article 156-67, paragraph (1)), art-156-67/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-67/par-1 - art-156-72/par-3: 第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の七十二第一項 (Article 156-72, paragraph (1)), art-156-72/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-72/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の七十二第二項（兼業の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-72/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-72/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の七十二第三項（兼業の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-72/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-72/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の七十八第一項（兼業承認を受けた業務の開始等に関する届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-78/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の八十三第一項（指定の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-83/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二百六条第一項第十一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-206/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-206/par-1/item-11 --- ## 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