# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（罰則） — address `suppl-4271-32/art-8`
- 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-4271-32/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-8
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### 第八条（罰則） — Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4271-32/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4271-32/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  附則第三条第一項の規定による書面の提出をせず、若しくは虚偽の書面の提出をし、又は同条第二項若しくは第三項の規定により同条第一項の書面に添付すべき書類若しくは電磁的記録に虚偽の記載若しくは記録をしてこれを提出した者は、一年以下の懲役若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
<sup>suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-1</sup>
A person who fails to submit the document under the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions or submits a false document, or who submits documents or electronic or magnetic records to be attached to the document referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) or (3) of that Article with a false statement or record, is punished by imprisonment with work for a term of one year or less or a fine of 3,000,000 yen or less, or both.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務又は財産に関し、前項の違反行為をしたときは、その行為者を罰するほか、その法人に対して二億円以下の罰金刑を、その人に対して同項の罰金刑を科する。
<sup>suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-2</sup>
If the representative of a corporation, or the agent, employee or any other worker of a corporation or individual, commits a violation under the preceding paragraph in connection with the business or property of that corporation or individual, in addition to the offender being punished, the corporation is sentenced to a fine of 200,000,000 yen or less and the individual is sentenced to the fine prescribed in that paragraph.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-1: 附則第三条第一項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-1
- suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-1: 同条第二項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-2
- suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-1: 第三項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第三条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (3)), suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-3
- suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-1

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 金融商品取引法 附則第三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-3/par-3
- 金融商品取引法 附則第八条第二項（罰則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-8/par-2
- 金融商品取引法 附則第十三条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4271-32/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4271-32/art-13/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-20261023T035921-055, 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
