# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二十七条の三十の四 (Article 27-30-4) - 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: 第二十七条の三十の四 (Article 27-30-4)（開示用電子情報処理組織を使用できない場合の特例） — address `art-27-30-4` - 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-27-30-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十七条の三十の四（開示用電子情報処理組織を使用できない場合の特例） — (Special Provisions on Cases for Which an Electronic Data Processing System for Disclosure Is Unusable) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-27-30-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4 **第一項** 電子開示手続を行う者は、電気通信回線の故障その他の事由により開示用電子情報処理組織を使用して当該電子開示手続を行うことができない場合には、前条第一項の規定にかかわらず、政令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣の承認を得て、開示用電子情報処理組織の使用に代えて、磁気ディスク（これに準ずる方法により一定の事項を確実に記録しておくことができる物を含む。以下この章において同じ。）の提出によりその電子開示手続を行うことができる。 art-27-30-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if a person that carries out electronic disclosure procedures is unable to carry out electronic disclosure procedures through the use of an electronic data processing system for disclosure due to a failure in telecommunication lines or any other cause, the person may carry out electronic disclosure procedures by submitting a magnetic disk (including anything on which it is possible to reliably record specific particulars through use of a similar means; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter), instead of using an electronic data processing system for disclosure, with the approval of the Prime Minister and pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 開示用電子情報処理組織を使用して任意電子開示手続を行う者は、電気通信回線の故障その他の事由により開示用電子情報処理組織を使用して当該任意電子開示手続を行うことができない場合には、政令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣の承認を得て、開示用電子情報処理組織の使用に代えて、磁気ディスクの提出によりその任意電子開示手続を行うことができる。 art-27-30-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-2 If a person that carries out voluntary electronic disclosure procedures by use of an electronic data processing system for disclosure is unable to carry out voluntary electronic disclosure procedures using an electronic data processing system for disclosure due to a failure in telecommunication lines or any other cause, that person may carry out voluntary electronic disclosure procedures by submitting a magnetic disk, instead of using an electronic data processing system for disclosure, with an approval of the Prime Minister and pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 内閣総理大臣は、前二項の規定により電子開示手続又は任意電子開示手続が磁気ディスクの提出により行われたときは、当該磁気ディスクに記録された事項を、直ちに、内閣府令で定めるところにより、ファイルに記録しなければならない。この場合において、ファイルへの記録がされた時に内閣府に到達したものとみなす。 art-27-30-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-3 If electronic disclosure procedures or voluntary electronic disclosure procedures are carried out through the submission of a magnetic disk pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the Prime Minister must immediately record the particulars recorded on that magnetic disk into a file, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. In this case, the particulars recorded on the magnetic disk are deemed to reach the Cabinet Office when those particulars are recorded into the file. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前条第四項の規定は、前三項の規定により行われた電子開示手続又は任意電子開示手続について準用する。 art-27-30-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-4 The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to electronic disclosure or voluntary electronic disclosure carried out pursuant to the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-27-30-4/par-1: 前条第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の三十の三第一項 (Article 27-30-3, paragraph (1)), art-27-30-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-3/par-1 - art-27-30-4/par-3: 前二項 → 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の三十の四第一項 (Article 27-30-4, paragraph (1)), art-27-30-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-1 - art-27-30-4/par-3: 前二項 → 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の三十の四第二項 (Article 27-30-4, paragraph (2)), art-27-30-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-2 - art-27-30-4/par-4: 前条第四項 → 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の三十の三第四項 (Article 27-30-3, paragraph (4)), art-27-30-3/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-3/par-4 - art-27-30-4/par-4: 前三項 → 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の三十の四第一項 (Article 27-30-4, paragraph (1)), art-27-30-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-1 - art-27-30-4/par-4: 前三項 → 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の三十の四第二項 (Article 27-30-4, paragraph (2)), art-27-30-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-2 - art-27-30-4/par-4: 前三項 → 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の三十の四第三項 (Article 27-30-4, paragraph (3)), art-27-30-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の三十の四第三項（開示用電子情報処理組織を使用できない場合の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の三十の四第四項（開示用電子情報処理組織を使用できない場合の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-30-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-30-4/par-4 --- ## 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