# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第三十一条の三の二 (Article 31-3-2) - 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: 第三十一条の三の二 (Article 31-3-2)（金融商品取引業を行う旨の表示等の禁止） — address `art-31-3-2` - 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-31-3-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-3-2 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条の三の二（金融商品取引業を行う旨の表示等の禁止） — (Prohibition of Indication of Engagement in Financial Instruments Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-3-2 **第一項** 金融商品取引業者等（第三十四条に規定する金融商品取引業者等をいう。）、金融商品仲介業者その他の法令の規定により金融商品取引業（第三十三条の三第一項第六号イに規定する登録金融機関業務を含む。以下この条において同じ。）を行うことができる者以外の者は、次に掲げる行為をしてはならない。 art-31-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-3-2/par-1 Anyone other than a financial instruments business operator, etc. (meaning a financial instruments business operator, etc. prescribed in Article 34), financial instruments intermediary service provider, or any other person that is allowed to engage in financial instruments business (including the registered financial institution business prescribed in Article 33-3, paragraph (1), item (vi), (a); hereinafter the same applies in this Article) under the provisions of laws and regulations may not conduct any of the following acts: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第三十六条の二第一項に規定する標識又はこれに類似する標識の掲示その他の金融商品取引業を行う旨の表示をすること。 art-31-3-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31-3-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-3-2/par-1/item-1 posting of a sign prescribed in Article 36-2, paragraph (1) or any sign similar thereto, or any other indication that a financial instruments business is being conducted; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 金融商品取引業を行うことを目的として、金融商品取引契約（第三十四条に規定する金融商品取引契約をいう。）の締結について勧誘をすること（第二条第八項各号に掲げる行為に該当するものを除く。）。 art-31-3-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31-3-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-3-2/par-1/item-2 soliciting for conclusion of a financial instruments transaction contract (meaning financial instruments transaction contract prescribed in Article 34) for the purpose of engaging in financial instruments business (excluding those that fall under the acts listed in the items of Article 2, paragraph (8)). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-31-3-2/par-1: 第三十四条 → 金融商品取引法 第三十四条 (Article 34), art-34 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-34 - art-31-3-2/par-1: 第三十三条の三第一項第六号 → 金融商品取引法 第三十三条の三第一項第六号 (Article 33-3, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-33-3/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-33-3/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-33-3/par-1/item-6 - art-31-3-2/par-1: この条 → 金融商品取引法 第三十一条の三の二 (Article 31-3-2), art-31-3-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-3-2 - art-31-3-2/par-1/item-1: 第三十六条の二第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第三十六条の二第一項 (Article 36-2, paragraph (1)), art-36-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36-2/par-1 - art-31-3-2/par-1/item-2: 第三十四条 → 金融商品取引法 第三十四条 (Article 34), art-34 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-34 - art-31-3-2/par-1/item-2: 第二条第八項 → 金融商品取引法 第二条第八項 (Article 2, paragraph (8)), art-2/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-2/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-2/par-8 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第三十一条の三の二第一項（金融商品取引業を行う旨の表示等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-3-2/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第六十五条の四第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-65-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-65-4/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二百条第一項第十二号の三 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-200/par-1/item-12-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-200/par-1/item-12-3 --- ## 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