# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第七十九条の二十一 (Article 79-21) - 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: 第七十九条の二十一 (Article 79-21)（目的） — address `art-79-21` - 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-79-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-21 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条の二十一（目的） — (Purpose) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-21 **第一項** 投資者保護基金（以下この章及び附則において「基金」という。）は、第七十九条の五十六第一項の規定による一般顧客に対する支払その他の業務を行うことにより投資者の保護を図り、もつて証券取引又は商品関連市場デリバティブ取引に対する信頼性を維持することを目的とする。 art-79-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-21/par-1 The purpose of an investor protection fund (hereinafter referred to as a "fund" in this Chapter and the Supplementary Provisions) is to ensure the protection of investors through payments to general customers pursuant to the provisions of Article 79-56, paragraph (1) and through other services, thereby maintaining the credibility of securities transactions or commodity-related market derivatives transactions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79-21/par-1: 第七十九条の五十六第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の五十六第一項 (Article 79-56, paragraph (1)), art-79-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-56/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二条第三十一項第四号（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-2/par-31/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-2/par-31/item-4 - 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の四十九第一項（業務の範囲等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-49/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 附則第四条第一項（委託者保護基金に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4241-86/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4241-86/art-4/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 附則第四条第六項（委託者保護基金に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4241-86/art-4/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4241-86/art-4/par-6 --- ## 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