# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第三十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 38)

- 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: 第三十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 38) — address `suppl-4101-107/art-38`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4101-107/art-38
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4101-107/art-38
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### 第三十八条
<sup>suppl-4101-107/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4101-107/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4101-107/art-38</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に旧証券取引法第七十六条第一項の認可を受けて同項に規定する規則を定めている証券業協会は、施行日において当該規則につき新証券取引法第七十六条第一項の認可を受けたものとみなす。この場合において、同条第二項の規定は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4101-107/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4101-107/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4101-107/art-38/par-1</sup>
A securities association that, at the time this Act comes into effect, has received the authorization under Article 76, paragraph (1) of the Former Securities and Exchange Act and has established the rules prescribed in that paragraph is deemed to have received, on the effective date, the authorization under Article 76, paragraph (1) of the New Securities and Exchange Act with regard to those rules. In this case, the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article do not apply.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T035921-030, translated 2026-10-23
- This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22
