# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第二十二条の三 (Article 22-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-22-3. 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: 第二十二条の三 (Article 22-3)（両替業務を行う者への準用） — address `art-22-3` - 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-22-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-22-3 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条の三（両替業務を行う者への準用） — (Application, Mutatis Mutandis, to Persons Engaging in Currency Exchange Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-22-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-22-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-22-3 **第一項** 第十八条第二項から第四項まで、第十八条の二から第十八条の四まで及び前条第一項の規定は、本邦において両替業務（業として外国通貨又は旅行小切手の売買を行うことをいう。）を行う者（第五十五条の九の二第一項において「両替業者」という。）が顧客と両替（政令で定める小規模のものを除く。）を行う場合について準用する。 art-22-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-22-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-22-3/par-1 The provisions of Article 18, paragraphs (2) through (4), Articles 18-2 through 18-4, and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis if a person engaging in the currency exchange business (meaning buying and selling foreign currencies or traveler's checks in the course of trade) in Japan (this person is referred to as a "currency exchange operator" in Article 55-9-2, paragraph (1)) exchanges currencies (excluding a small currency exchange prescribed by Cabinet Order) with a customer. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Article 18, paragraphs (2) through (4), Articles 18-2 through 18-4, and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis if a person engaging in the currency exchange business (meaning buying and selling foreign currencies or traveler's checks in the course of trade) in Japan (this person is referred to as a "currency exchange operator" in Article 55-9-2, paragraph(1)) exchanges currencies (excluding a small currency exchange prescribed by Cabinet Order) with a customer." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb --- ## Cites - art-22-3/par-1: 第十八条第二項から第四項まで → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条第二項 (Article 18, paragraph (2)), art-18/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18/par-2 - art-22-3/par-1: 第十八条第二項から第四項まで → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条第三項 (Article 18, paragraph (3)), art-18/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18/par-3 - art-22-3/par-1: 第十八条第二項から第四項まで → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条第四項 (Article 18, paragraph (4)), art-18/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18/par-4 - art-22-3/par-1: 第十八条の二から第十八条の四まで → 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-22-3/par-1: 第十八条の二から第十八条の四まで → 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-22-3/par-1: 第十八条の二から第十八条の四まで → 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 - art-22-3/par-1: 前条第一項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第二十二条の二第一項 (Article 22-2, paragraph (1)), art-22-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-22-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-22-2/par-1 - art-22-3/par-1: 第五十五条の九の二第一項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の九の二第一項 (Article 55-9-2, paragraph (1)), art-55-9-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-9-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-9-2/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条第四項（銀行等の本人確認義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18/par-4 - 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 22-3, 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