# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第九条 (Article 9) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-9. 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（取引等の非常停止） — address `art-9` - 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-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条（取引等の非常停止） — (Suspension of Transactions in Case of Emergency) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-9 **第一項** 主務大臣は、国際経済の事情に急激な変化があつた場合において、緊急の必要があると認めるときは、政令で定めるところにより、政令で定める期間内において、この法律の適用を受ける取引、行為又は支払等の停止を命ずることができる。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-9/par-1 If there has been a rapid change in international economic conditions and the competent minister finds that there is an urgent need to do so, the competent minister, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, may order the suspension of transactions, actions, or the making or receiving of payments to which this Act applies, for a period prescribed by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により命ずる停止は、その停止の時までにこの法律により認められている支払を不可能とするものではなく、その停止による支払の遅延は、政令で定める期間内に限られるものとする。 art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-9/par-2 A suspension that the competent minister orders pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is not to make it impossible to make a payment that had been authorized pursuant to this Act up until the time of the suspension, and any delay in making a payment due to such a suspension is to be limited to within the period prescribed by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-9/par-2: 前項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-9/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第九条第二項（取引等の非常停止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-9/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-70/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-70/par-1/item-2 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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