# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第七十九条の四十七 (Article 79-47) - 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: 第七十九条の四十七 (Article 79-47)（役員及び職員等の秘密保持義務） — address `art-79-47` - 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-79-47 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-47 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条の四十七（役員及び職員等の秘密保持義務） — (Duty of Confidentiality of the Officers and Employees) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79-47 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-47 **第一項** 基金の役員若しくは職員若しくは審議会の委員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、その職務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らし、又は盗用してはならない。 art-79-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-47/par-1 It is prohibited for the officer or employee of a fund, a member of the council, or a person that has held any of these positions, to divulge or misappropriate any secret learned in the course of duty. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 基金の役員若しくは職員若しくは審議会の委員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、その職務に関して知り得た情報を、基金の業務の用に供する目的以外に利用してはならない。 art-79-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-47/par-2 It is prohibited for the officer or employee of a fund, a member of the council, or a person that has held any of these positions, to utilize information learned in the course of duty for a purpose other than the business use of the fund for which the information is provided. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二百四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-204/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-204/par-1 --- ## 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