# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第十八条の五 (Article 18-5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-5. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 外国為替及び外国貿易法 (Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act), 昭和二十四年法律第二百二十八号 - English title "Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade 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: 第十八条の五 (Article 18-5)（資金移動業者への準用） — address `art-18-5` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-5 - 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. --- ### 第十八条の五（資金移動業者への準用） — (Application, Mutatis Mutandis, of the Relevant Provisions to Funds Transfer Service Providers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-5 **第一項** 第十八条から前条までの規定は、資金移動業者が特定為替取引を行う場合について準用する。 art-18-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-5/par-1 The provisions of Article 18 through the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis if a funds transfer service provider conducts a specified funds transfer transaction. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Article 18 through the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis if a funds transfer service provider conducts a specified exchange transaction." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb --- ## Cites - art-18-5/par-1: 第十八条から前条まで → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18 - art-18-5/par-1: 第十八条から前条まで → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2), art-18-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-2 - art-18-5/par-1: 第十八条から前条まで → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の三 (Article 18-3), art-18-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-3 - art-18-5/par-1: 第十八条から前条まで → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の四 (Article 18-4), art-18-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-4 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の六第二項（電子決済手段等取引業者等への準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-6/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-70-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-70-2/par-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十一条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-71-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-71-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (外国為替及び外国貿易法), Article 18-5, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 225 — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05