# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（証券会社等の主要株主に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4151-54/art-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/suppl-4151-54/art-2
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### 第二条（証券会社等の主要株主に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Major Shareholders of Securities Companies, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4151-54/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4151-54/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4151-54/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に証券会社（第一条の規定による改正後の証券取引法（以下「新証券取引法」という。）第二条第九項に規定する証券会社をいう。以下この条において同じ。）の主要株主（新証券取引法第二十八条の四第二項に規定する主要株主をいう。以下この条において同じ。）又は証券会社を子会社（同条第三項に規定する子会社をいう。）とする持株会社（私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律（昭和二十二年法律第五十四号）第九条第五項第一号に規定する持株会社をいう。）の主要株主（以下この条において「証券会社等の主要株主」という。）に該当する者は、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）において当該証券会社等の主要株主となったものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-4151-54/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4151-54/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4151-54/art-2/par-1</sup>
A person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is a major shareholder of a securities company (meaning a securities company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9) of the Securities and Exchange Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Securities and Exchange Act"); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) (meaning a major shareholder prescribed in Article 28-4, paragraph (2) of the New Securities and Exchange Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), or a major shareholder of a holding company (meaning a holding company prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (5), item (i) of the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (Act No. 54 of 1947)) that has a securities company as its subsidiary company (meaning a subsidiary company prescribed in Article 28-4, paragraph (3) of the New Securities and Exchange Act) (hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "major shareholder of a securities company, etc."), is deemed to have become that major shareholder of a securities company, etc. on the day this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as "the effective date").
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4151-54/art-2/par-1: この条 → 金融商品取引法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4151-54/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4151-54/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4151-54/art-2
- suppl-4151-54/art-2/par-1: 私的独占の禁止及び公正取引の確保に関する法律（昭和二十二年法律第五十四号）第九条第五項第一号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000054, 第九条第五項第一号 (Article 9, paragraph (5), item (i)), art-9/par-5/item-1 — not held in this collection

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 金融商品取引法 附則第二条第一項（証券会社等の主要株主に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4151-54/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4151-54/art-2/par-1

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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-20261023T035921-036, 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
