# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-19. 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（支払手段等の輸出入） — address `art-19` - 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-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（支払手段等の輸出入） — (Importing and Exporting Means of Payment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-19 **第一項** 財務大臣は、この法律又はこの法律に基づく命令の規定の確実な実施を図るため必要があると認めるときは、支払手段（第六条第一項第七号ハに掲げる支払手段が入力されている証票等を含む。）又は証券を輸出し、又は輸入しようとする居住者又は非居住者に対し、政令で定めるところにより、許可を受ける義務を課することができる。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-19/par-1 If the Minister of Finance finds it to be necessary to do so in order to ensure the reliable implementation of the provisions of this Act or of an Order based on this Act, the minister, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, may make it obligatory for residents or non-residents seeking to import or export a means of payment (including a voucher or other such object in which a means of payment is entered as stated in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (vii), (c)) or securities, to get permission to do so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 財務大臣は、この法律若しくはこの法律に基づく命令の規定の確実な実施を図るため必要があると認めるとき、又は国際収支の均衡若しくは通貨の安定を維持するため特に必要があると認めるときは、貴金属を輸出し、又は輸入しようとする居住者又は非居住者に対し、政令で定めるところにより、許可を受ける義務を課することができる。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-19/par-2 If the Minister of Finance finds it to be necessary to do so in order to ensure the reliable implementation of the provisions of this Act or of an Order based on this Act or finds it to be particularly necessary to do so in order to maintain a balance of payments equilibrium or currency stability, the minister, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, may make it obligatory for residents or non-residents seeking to import or export precious metals to get permission to do so. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the Minister of Finance finds it to be necessary to do so in order to ensure the reliable implementation of the provisions of this Act or of an O based on this Act or finds it to be particularly necessary to do so in order to maintain a balance of payments equilibrium or currency stability, the minister, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, may make it obligatory for residents or non-residents seeking to import or export precious metals to get permission to do so." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb **第三項** 居住者又は非居住者は、第一項に規定する支払手段又は証券若しくは貴金属を輸出し、又は輸入しようとするときは、当該支払手段又は当該証券若しくは貴金属の輸出又は輸入が前二項の規定に基づく命令の規定により財務大臣の許可を受けたものである場合その他政令で定める場合を除き、政令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、当該輸出又は輸入の内容、実行の時期その他の政令で定める事項を財務大臣に届け出なければならない。 art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-19/par-3 If a resident or non-resident seeks to import or export a means of payment prescribed in paragraph (1) or a security or precious metal, the resident or non-resident, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, must file a notification of the substance of the import or export, its timing, and other information that Cabinet Order prescribes with the Minister of Finance, unless that resident or non-resident has gotten the permission of the Minister of Finance to import or export that means of payment, security, or precious metal pursuant to the provisions of an Order based on one of the preceding two paragraphs or in any other case prescribed by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19/par-1: 第六条第一項第七号 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第六条第一項第七号 (Article 6, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-6/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-6/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-6/par-1/item-7 - art-19/par-3: 第一項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-19/par-1 - art-19/par-3: 前二項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-19/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第六条第一項第七号ハ（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-6/par-1/item-7/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-6/par-1/item-7/sub-3 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十九条第三項（支払手段等の輸出入） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-19/par-3 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-70/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-70/par-1/item-6 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十一条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-71/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-71/par-1/item-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 19, paragraph (2) — 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