# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二百十一条の三 (Article 211-3) - 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: 第二百十一条の三 (Article 211-3)（通信履歴の電磁的記録の保全要請） — address `art-211-3` - 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-211-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-211-3 - 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. --- ### 第二百十一条の三（通信履歴の電磁的記録の保全要請） — (Request for Preservation of Electronic or Magnetic Records of Communications History) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-211-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-211-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-211-3 **第一項** 委員会職員は、差押え又は記録命令付差押えをするため必要があるときは、電気通信を行うための設備を他人の通信の用に供する事業を営む者又は自己の業務のために不特定若しくは多数の者の通信を媒介することのできる電気通信を行うための設備を設置している者に対し、その業務上記録している電気通信の送信元、送信先、通信日時その他の通信履歴の電磁的記録のうち必要なものを特定し、三十日を超えない期間を定めて、これを消去しないよう、書面で求めることができる。この場合において、当該電磁的記録について差押え又は記録命令付差押えをする必要がないと認めるに至つたときは、当該求めを取り消さなければならない。 art-211-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-211-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-211-3/par-1 If it is necessary for carrying out the seizure or the seizure with an order to produce a copy of records, a Commission official may specify the necessary electronic or magnetic records from among the electronic or magnetic records of the sender, recipient, date and time, and other communications history, for telecommunications that are recorded in the course of business, and request in writing that a person engaged in the business of making equipment to be used for telecommunication available for other persons' communications or a person that has established equipment which is used for telecommunication and that is capable of intermediating the communications of unspecified or many persons for their own business not to erase the specified electronic or magnetic records during a fixed period of no longer than 30 days. In such a case, if the Commission official comes to find that it is no longer necessary to carry out the seizure or the seizure with an order to produce a copy of records concerning those electronic or magnetic records, the Commission official must withdraw that request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により消去しないよう求める期間については、特に必要があるときは、三十日を超えない範囲内で延長することができる。ただし、消去しないよう求める期間は、通じて六十日を超えることができない。 art-211-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-211-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-211-3/par-2 If it is particularly necessary, the period during which the request is made not to erase the records pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be extended by a period of no longer than 30 days; provided however, that the period during which the request is made not to erase the records may not exceed 60 days in total. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定による求めを行う場合において、必要があるときは、みだりに当該求めに関する事項を漏らさないよう求めることができる。 art-211-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-211-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-211-3/par-3 If it is necessary to do so in making a request under the provisions of paragraph (1), the Commission official may request that the particulars of that request not be divulged without reason. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-211-3/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第二百十一条の三第一項 (Article 211-3, paragraph (1)), art-211-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-211-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-211-3/par-1 - art-211-3/par-3: 第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第二百十一条の三第一項 (Article 211-3, paragraph (1)), art-211-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-211-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-211-3/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二百十一条の三第二項（通信履歴の電磁的記録の保全要請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-211-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-211-3/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第二百十一条の三第三項（通信履歴の電磁的記録の保全要請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-211-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-211-3/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第二百二十四条第二項（財務局等職員の犯則調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-224/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-224/par-2 --- ## 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