# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二百二十二条 (Article 222) - 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: 第二百二十二条 (Article 222)（領置物件等の還付等） — address `art-222` - 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-222 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十二条（領置物件等の還付等） — (Return of Retained Objects) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-222 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-222 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222 **第一項** 委員会職員は、領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件について留置の必要がなくなつたときは、その返還を受けるべき者にこれを還付しなければならない。 art-222/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-222/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222/par-1 If it becomes unnecessary to keep a retained object, seized object, or object seized with an order to produce a copy of records, a Commission official must return it to the person to whom it should be returned. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 委員会は、前項の領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件について、その返還を受けるべき者の住所若しくは居所がわからないため、又はその他の事由によりこれを還付することができない場合においては、その旨を公告しなければならない。 art-222/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-222/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222/par-2 If the Commission is unable to return a retained object, seized object, or object seized with an order to produce a copy of records referred to in the preceding paragraph because the address or residence of the person to whom it should be returned is unknown or for any other such reason, the Commission must issue public notice of this. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定による公告に係る領置物件、差押物件又は記録命令付差押物件について公告の日から六月を経過しても還付の請求がないときは、これらの物件は、国庫に帰属する。 art-222/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-222/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222/par-3 If no request is filed for the return of the retained object, seized object, or object seized with an order to produce a copy of records to which the public notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph concerns after six months have elapsed since the day of the public notice, the object vests in the national treasury. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-222/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第二百二十二条第一項 (Article 222, paragraph (1)), art-222/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-222/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222/par-1 - art-222/par-3: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第二百二十二条第二項 (Article 222, paragraph (2)), art-222/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-222/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二百二十二条第二項（領置物件等の還付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-222/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第二百二十二条第三項（領置物件等の還付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-222/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第二百二十二条の二第二項（移転した上差し押さえた記録媒体の交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-222-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222-2/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第二百二十二条の二第三項（移転した上差し押さえた記録媒体の交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-222-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-222-2/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