# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第七十九条の五十九 (Article 79-59) - 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: 第七十九条の五十九 (Article 79-59)（返還資金融資） — address `art-79-59` - 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-79-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十九条の五十九（返還資金融資） — (Loans of Funds for Refunds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79-59 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59 **第一項** 基金は、通知金融商品取引業者（認定金融商品取引業者を除く。）又は通知金融商品取引業者に係る第四十三条の二第二項に規定する信託の受益者代理人の申込みに基づき、その必要と認められる金額の範囲内において、これらの者に対し、顧客資産の返還に係る債務の迅速な履行に必要な資金の貸付け（以下「返還資金融資」という。）を行うことができる。 art-79-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59/par-1 At the application of a financial instruments business operator that is the subject of a notice (excluding a distressed financial instruments business operator) or the agent of the beneficiary of a trust prescribed in Article 43-2, paragraph (2) that is connected to a financial instruments business operator that is the subject of a notice, a fund may loan the necessary funds for the expeditious performance of obligations connected with the refunding of customer assets (hereinafter referred to as a "loan of funds for refunds") to such a person, within the limits of the amount that is found to be necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 返還資金融資の申込みを行う者は、当該申込みを行う時までに、当該返還資金融資に関し、次に掲げる要件のすべてに該当することについて、内閣総理大臣の認定（以下この条において「適格性の認定」という。）を受けなければならない。 art-79-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59/par-2 A person that files an application for a loan of funds for refunds must be recognized by the Prime Minister to satisfy all of the following requirements with regard to the relevant loan of funds for refunds (hereinafter such a recognition is referred to as "recognition of eligibility" in this Article), by the time it files that application: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 返還資金融資が行われることが顧客資産の返還に係る債務の迅速な履行に必要であると認められること。 art-79-59/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59/par-2/item-1 providing a loan of funds for refund is found to be necessary for the expeditious performance of obligations connected with the refund of customer assets; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 返還資金融資による貸付金が顧客資産の返還に係る債務の迅速な履行のために使用されることが確実であると認められること。 art-79-59/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59/par-2/item-2 it is found to be possible to rely upon the proceeds of a loan of funds for refund being used for the expeditious performance of obligations connected with the refund of customer assets. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 内閣総理大臣は、適格性の認定を行つたときは、その旨を財務大臣及び当該適格性の認定を受けた金融商品取引業者（金融商品取引業者に係る第四十三条の二第二項に規定する信託の受益者代理人が認定を受けた場合にあつては、当該金融商品取引業者）が所属する基金に通知しなければならない。 art-79-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59/par-3 Upon granting a recognition of eligibility, the Prime Minister must notify the Minister of Finance and the fund to which the financial instruments business operator that has obtained the recognition of eligibility belongs (or, if the agent of the beneficiary of a trust prescribed in Article 43-2, paragraph (2) that involves a financial instruments business operator has obtained that recognition, the financial instruments business operator) of this. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 基金は、返還資金融資の申込みがあつたときは、当該申込みに係る返還資金融資を行うかどうかの決定をしなければならない。 art-79-59/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59/par-4 Upon receiving an application for a loan of funds for refunds, a fund must decide whether to provide the loan of funds for refunds to which that application pertains. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 基金は、前項の決定をしたときは、直ちに、その決定に係る事項を内閣総理大臣及び財務大臣に報告しなければならない。 art-79-59/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59/par-5 When a fund has made the decision referred to in the preceding paragraph, it must immediately report the particulars of the decision to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79-59/par-1: 第四十三条の二第二項 → 金融商品取引法 第四十三条の二第二項 (Article 43-2, paragraph (2)), art-43-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-43-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-43-2/par-2 - art-79-59/par-2: この条 → 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の五十九 (Article 79-59), art-79-59 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59 - art-79-59/par-3: 第四十三条の二第二項 → 金融商品取引法 第四十三条の二第二項 (Article 43-2, paragraph (2)), art-43-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-43-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-43-2/par-2 - art-79-59/par-5: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の五十九第四項 (Article 79-59, paragraph (4)), art-79-59/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59/par-4 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の二十八第二項（脱退等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-28/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の四十五第二項第三号（運営審議会） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-45/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-45/par-2/item-3 - 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の四十九第一項第二号（業務の範囲等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-49/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-49/par-1/item-2 - 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の五十九第二項（返還資金融資） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の五十九第五項（返還資金融資） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-59/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-59/par-5 - 金融商品取引法 第二百六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-206/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-206/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 附則第九十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4181-65/art-94/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-94/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 附則第四条第一項第二号（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/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4241-86/art-4/par-1/item-2 - 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 - 金融商品取引法 附則第四条第十一項第三号（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-11/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4241-86/art-4/par-11/item-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