(定義)

(Definitions)

第二条この法律において「有価証券」とは、次に掲げるものをいう。

Article 2(1)The term "securities" as used in this Act means the following:

一国債証券

(i)national government bonds;

二地方債証券

(ii)municipal bonds;

三特別の法律により法人の発行する債券(次号及び第十一号に掲げるものを除く。)

(iii)debentures issued by a corporation pursuant to a special Act (excluding those set forth in the following item and item (xi));

四資産の流動化に関する法律(平成十年法律第百五号)に規定する特定社債券

(iv)specified corporate bonds prescribed in the Act on the Securitization of Assets (Act No. 105 of 1998);

五社債券(相互会社の社債券を含む。以下同じ。)

(v)corporate bond certificates (including those issued by a mutual company; the same applies hereinafter);

六特別の法律により設立された法人の発行する出資証券(次号、第八号及び第十一号に掲げるものを除く。)

(vi)investment securities issued by a corporation incorporated pursuant to a special Act (excluding those set forth in the following item, item (viii) and item (xi));

七協同組織金融機関の優先出資に関する法律(平成五年法律第四十四号。以下「優先出資法」という。)に規定する優先出資証券

(vii)preferred equity investment certificates prescribed in the Act on Preferred Equity Investment by Cooperative Financial Institutions (Act No. 44 of 1993; hereinafter referred to as the "Act on Preferred Equity Investment");

八資産の流動化に関する法律に規定する優先出資証券又は新優先出資引受権を表示する証券

(viii)preferred equity securities and securities indicating a right to subscribe for preferred equity which are prescribed in the Act on the Securitization of Assets;

九株券又は新株予約権証券

(ix)share certificates and share option certificates;

十投資信託及び投資法人に関する法律(昭和二十六年法律第百九十八号)に規定する投資信託又は外国投資信託の受益証券

(x)beneficiary certificates of an investment trust or foreign investment trust which are prescribed in the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations (Act No. 198 of 1951);

十一投資信託及び投資法人に関する法律に規定する投資証券、新投資口予約権証券若しくは投資法人債券又は外国投資証券

(xi)investment securities, investment equity subscription right certificates, or investment corporation bond certificates or foreign investment securities prescribed in the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations;

十二貸付信託の受益証券

(xii)beneficiary certificates of loan trusts;

十三資産の流動化に関する法律に規定する特定目的信託の受益証券

(xiii)beneficiary certificates of special purpose trusts prescribed in the Act on the Securitization of Assets;

十四信託法(平成十八年法律第百八号)に規定する受益証券発行信託の受益証券

(xiv)beneficiary certificates of beneficiary certificate-issuing trusts prescribed in the Trust Act (Act No. 108 of 2006);

十五法人が事業に必要な資金を調達するために発行する約束手形のうち、内閣府令で定めるもの

(xv)promissory notes specified by Cabinet Office Order which have been issued by a corporation in order to raise the funds necessary for business;

十六抵当証券法(昭和六年法律第十五号)に規定する抵当証券

(xvi)mortgage securities prescribed in the Mortgage Securities Act (Act No. 15 of 1931);

十七外国又は外国の者の発行する証券又は証書で第一号から第九号まで又は第十二号から前号までに掲げる証券又は証書の性質を有するもの(次号に掲げるものを除く。)

(xvii)instruments or certificates issued by a foreign country or foreign person, and which have the nature of the instruments and certificates set forth in items (i) through (ix) or item (xii) through the preceding item (excluding those specified in the following item);

十八外国の者の発行する証券又は証書で銀行業を営む者その他の金銭の貸付けを業として行う者の貸付債権を信託する信託の受益権又はこれに類する権利を表示するもののうち、内閣府令で定めるもの

(xviii)instruments or certificates which are specified by Cabinet Office Order, which are issued by a foreign person, and which indicate a beneficial interest in a trust that holds the loan claims of a person operating in the banking business or a person otherwise providing money loans on a regular basis, or indicate any other similar rights;

十九金融商品市場において金融商品市場を開設する者の定める基準及び方法に従い行う第二十一項第三号に掲げる取引に係る権利、外国金融商品市場(第八項第三号ロに規定する外国金融商品市場をいう。以下この号において同じ。)において行う取引であつて第二十一項第三号に掲げる取引と類似の取引(金融商品(第二十四項第三号の三に掲げるものに限る。)又は金融指標(当該金融商品の価格及びこれに基づいて算出した数値に限る。)に係るものを除く。)に係る権利又は金融商品市場及び外国金融商品市場によらないで行う第二十二項第三号若しくは第四号に掲げる取引に係る権利(以下「オプション」という。)を表示する証券又は証書

(xix)instruments or certificates that indicate the right to a transaction specified in paragraph (21), item (iii) which is conducted on a financial instruments market, in accordance with the standards and means prescribed by the person operating the financial instruments market, right to a transaction that is conducted on a foreign financial instruments market (meaning a foreign financial instruments market provided for in paragraph (8), item (iii), (b); hereinafter the same applies in this item) and which is similar to the transaction specified in paragraph (21), item (iii) (excluding those associated with financial instruments (limited to those listed in paragraph (24), item (iii)-3) or financial indexes (limited to the prices of the relevant financial instruments and the figures calculated based thereon), or the right to a transaction specified in paragraph (22), item (iii) or (iv) which is conducted in neither a financial instruments market nor a foreign financial instruments market (such rights are hereinafter referred to as "options");

二十前各号に掲げる証券又は証書の預託を受けた者が当該証券又は証書の発行された国以外の国において発行する証券又は証書で、当該預託を受けた証券又は証書に係る権利を表示するもの

(xx)instruments or certificates which the person with whom instruments or certificates set forth in the preceding items has been deposited issues in a state other than the state in which the deposited instruments or certificates were issued, and which indicate a right to the deposited instruments or certificates; and

二十一前各号に掲げるもののほか、流通性その他の事情を勘案し、公益又は投資者の保護を確保することが必要と認められるものとして政令で定める証券又は証書

(xxi)instruments or certificates other than those set forth in the preceding items, which are specified by Cabinet Order as those with regard to which, in consideration of transferability and other factors, it is found to be necessary to ensure the public interest or the protection of investors.

2前項第一号から第十五号までに掲げる有価証券、同項第十七号に掲げる有価証券(同項第十六号に掲げる有価証券の性質を有するものを除く。)及び同項第十八号に掲げる有価証券に表示されるべき権利(同項第十四号に掲げる有価証券及び同項第十七号に掲げる有価証券(同項第十四号に掲げる有価証券の性質を有するものに限る。)に表示されるべき権利にあつては、資金決済に関する法律(平成二十一年法律第五十九号)第二条第五項第三号又は第四号に掲げるものに該当するもので有価証券とみなさなくても公益又は投資者の保護のため支障を生ずることがないと認められるものとして政令で定めるものを除く。)並びに前項第十六号に掲げる有価証券、同項第十七号に掲げる有価証券(同項第十六号に掲げる有価証券の性質を有するものに限る。)及び同項第十九号から第二十一号までに掲げる有価証券であつて内閣府令で定めるものに表示されるべき権利(以下この項及び次項において「有価証券表示権利」と総称する。)は、有価証券表示権利について当該権利を表示する当該有価証券が発行されていない場合においても、当該権利を当該有価証券とみなし、電子記録債権(電子記録債権法(平成十九年法律第百二号)第二条第一項に規定する電子記録債権をいう。以下この項において同じ。)のうち、流通性その他の事情を勘案し、社債券その他の前項各号に掲げる有価証券とみなすことが必要と認められるものとして政令で定めるもの(第七号及び次項において「特定電子記録債権」という。)は、当該電子記録債権を当該有価証券とみなし、次に掲げる権利は、証券又は証書に表示されるべき権利以外の権利であつても有価証券とみなして、この法律の規定を適用する。

(2)The rights that must be indicated on securities set forth in items (i) through (xv) of the preceding paragraph, on securities set forth in item (xvii) of that paragraph (excluding those with the nature of securities set forth in item (xvi) of that paragraph), and on securities set forth in item (xviii) of that paragraph (in the case of the rights that must be indicated on securities set forth in item (xiv) of that paragraph and securities set forth in item (xvii) of that paragraph (limited to those that have the nature of securities set forth in item (xiv) of that paragraph), excluding rights which fall under Article 2, paragraph (5), item (iii) or (iv) of the Payment Services Act (Act No. 59 of 2009), and which are specified by Cabinet Order as rights that are found not to compromise the public interest or the protection of investors even if they are not deemed to be securities); and the rights that must be indicated on the securities set forth in item (xvi) of the preceding paragraph, securities set forth in item (xvii) of that paragraph (limited to those with the nature of securities set forth in item (xvi) of that paragraph), and securities set forth in items (xix) through (xxi) of that paragraph which are specified by Cabinet Office Order (hereinafter collectively referred to as "rights that must be indicated on securities" in this and the following paragraphs) are deemed to be the securities indicating these rights even if securities indicating these rights have not been issued; the electronically recorded monetary claims (meaning the electronically recorded monetary claims set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Electronically Recorded Monetary Claims Act (Act No. 102 of 2007); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) specified by Cabinet Order as those which, in consideration of transferability and other circumstances, it is found to be necessary to deem corporate bond certificates or any other securities specified in the items of the preceding paragraph (referred to as the "specified electronically recorded monetary claims" in item (vii) and the following paragraph), are deemed to be such securities; the rights set forth in the following items are deemed to be the relevant securities even if they are not rights which must be indicated on instruments or certificates; and the provisions of this Act apply:

一信託の受益権(前項第十号に規定する投資信託の受益証券に表示されるべきもの及び同項第十二号から第十四号までに掲げる有価証券に表示されるべきもの並びに資金決済に関する法律第二条第五項第三号又は第四号に掲げるものに該当するもので有価証券とみなさなくても公益又は投資者の保護のため支障を生ずることがないと認められるものとして政令で定めるものを除く。)

(i)a beneficial interest in a trust (excluding a beneficial interest that must be indicated on the beneficiary certificates of an investment trust specified in item (x) of the preceding paragraph and a beneficial interest that must be indicated on securities set forth in any of items (xii) through (xiv) of that paragraph, and a beneficial interest which falls under Article 2, paragraph (5), item (iii) or (iv) of the Payment Services Act and is specified by Cabinet Order as a beneficial interest that is found not to compromise the public interest or the protection of investors even if it is not deemed to be securities);

二外国の者に対する権利で前号に掲げる権利の性質を有するもの(前項第十号に規定する外国投資信託の受益証券に表示されるべきもの並びに同項第十七号及び第十八号に掲げる有価証券に表示されるべきものに該当するものを除く。)

(ii)rights that are claimable against a foreign person and which have the nature of the rights specified in the preceding item (excluding rights that must be indicated on the beneficiary certificates of a foreign investment trust specified in item (x) of the preceding paragraph and rights that must be indicated on securities set forth in item (xvii) or item (xviii) of that paragraph);

三合名会社若しくは合資会社の社員権(政令で定めるものに限る。)又は合同会社の社員権

(iii)the membership rights of a general partnership company or limited partnership company (limited to rights specified by Cabinet Order) or membership rights of a limited liability company;

四外国法人の社員権で前号に掲げる権利の性質を有するもの

(iv)the membership rights of a foreign corporation which have the nature of rights specified in the preceding item;

五民法(明治二十九年法律第八十九号)第六百六十七条第一項に規定する組合契約、商法(明治三十二年法律第四十八号)第五百三十五条に規定する匿名組合契約、投資事業有限責任組合契約に関する法律(平成十年法律第九十号)第三条第一項に規定する投資事業有限責任組合契約又は有限責任事業組合契約に関する法律(平成十七年法律第四十号)第三条第一項に規定する有限責任事業組合契約に基づく権利、社団法人の社員権その他の権利(外国の法令に基づくものを除く。)のうち、当該権利を有する者(以下この号において「出資者」という。)が出資又は拠出をした金銭(これに類するものとして政令で定めるものを含む。)を充てて行う事業(以下この号において「出資対象事業」という。)から生ずる収益の配当又は当該出資対象事業に係る財産の分配を受けることができる権利であつて、次のいずれにも該当しないもの(前項各号に掲げる有価証券に表示される権利及びこの項(この号を除く。)の規定により有価証券とみなされる権利を除く。)

(v)among the rights based on a partnership contract provided for in Article 667, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code (Act No. 89 of 1896), a silent partnership agreement provided for in Article 535 of the Commercial Code (Act No. 48 of 1899), a limited partnership agreement for investment provided for in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Limited Partnership Act for Investment (Act No. 90 of 1998), or a limited liability partnership agreement provided for in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Limited Liability Partnership Act (Act No. 40 of 2005), membership rights in an incorporated association or other rights (excluding rights based on foreign laws and regulations) the holder of which (hereinafter referred to as an "equity holder" in this item) can receive dividends of profits arising from business that is conducted using the money (including anything specified by Cabinet Order as being similar to money) invested or contributed by the equity holder (such business is hereinafter referred to as "business subject to investment" in this item) or a distribution of the assets of the business subject to investment, which do not fall under any of the following categories (excluding rights that must be indicated on securities set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph and rights deemed to be securities pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph (excluding this item)):

イ出資者の全員が出資対象事業に関与する場合として政令で定める場合における当該出資者の権利

(a)rights of an equity holder in cases specified by Cabinet Order as those in which all of the equity holders participate in the business subject to investment;

ロ出資者がその出資又は拠出の額を超えて収益の配当又は出資対象事業に係る財産の分配を受けることがないことを内容とする当該出資者の権利(イに掲げる権利を除く。)

(b)rights of an equity holder, if it is provided that equity holders will not receive dividends of profits or a distribution of the assets of the business subject to investment in an amount exceeding the amount invested or contributed by them (excluding rights set forth in (a));

ハ保険業法(平成七年法律第百五号)第二条第一項に規定する保険業を行う者が保険者となる保険契約、農業協同組合法(昭和二十二年法律第百三十二号)第十条第一項第十号に規定する事業を行う同法第五条に規定する組合と締結した共済契約、消費生活協同組合法(昭和二十三年法律第二百号)第十条第二項に規定する共済事業を行う同法第四条に規定する組合と締結した共済契約、水産業協同組合法(昭和二十三年法律第二百四十二号)第十一条第一項第十二号、第九十三条第一項第六号の二若しくは第百条の二第一項第一号に規定する事業を行う同法第二条に規定する組合と締結した共済契約、中小企業等協同組合法(昭和二十四年法律第百八十一号)第九条の二第七項に規定する共済事業を行う同法第三条に規定する組合と締結した共済契約又は不動産特定共同事業法(平成六年法律第七十七号)第二条第三項に規定する不動産特定共同事業契約(同条第十二項に規定する特例事業者と締結したものを除く。)に基づく権利(イ及びロに掲げる権利を除く。)

(c)rights based on an insurance contract in which a person that engages in the insurance business prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act (Act No. 105 of 1995) is the insurer, a mutual aid contract concluded with a cooperative prescribed in Article 5 of the Agricultural Cooperatives Act (Act No. 132 of 1947) which engages in the services prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (x) of that Act, a mutual aid contract concluded with a cooperative prescribed in Article 4 of the Consumer Cooperatives Act (Act No. 200 of 1948) which engages in the mutual aid services prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (2) of that Act, a mutual aid contract concluded with a cooperative prescribed in Article 2 of the Fisheries Cooperatives Act (Act No. 242 of 1948) which engages in the services prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (1), item (xii), Article 93, paragraph (1), item (vi)-2 or Article 100-2, paragraph (1), item (i) of that Act, a mutual aid contract concluded with a cooperative prescribed in Article 3 of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act (Act No. 181 of 1949) which engages in the mutual aid services prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (7) of that Act, or a specified joint real estate venture contract prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Specified Joint Real Estate Ventures (Act No. 77 of 1994) (excluding a contract concluded with the special enterprise operator prescribed in paragraph (12) of that Article) (excluding rights set forth in sub-item (a) and (b)); or

ニイからハまでに掲げるもののほか、当該権利を有価証券とみなさなくても公益又は出資者の保護のため支障を生ずることがないと認められるものとして政令で定める権利

(d)rights other than those set forth in (a) through (c), which are specified by Cabinet Order as rights in connection with which there is found to be no compromise to the public interest or to the protection of equity holders even if the rights are not deemed to be securities;

六外国の法令に基づく権利であつて、前号に掲げる権利に類するもの

(vi)rights based on foreign laws and regulations which are similar to those specified in the preceding item; or

七特定電子記録債権及び前各号に掲げるもののほか、前項に規定する有価証券及び前各号に掲げる権利と同様の経済的性質を有することその他の事情を勘案し、有価証券とみなすことにより公益又は投資者の保護を確保することが必要かつ適当と認められるものとして政令で定める権利

(vii)rights other than specified electronically recorded monetary claims and the rights set forth in the preceding items, which are specified by Cabinet Order as rights in connection with which it is found that, in consideration of their economic nature being similar to securities prescribed in the preceding paragraph and rights set forth in the preceding items and in consideration of other circumstances, it is necessary and appropriate to ensure the public interest or the protection of investors, by deeming these rights to be securities.

3この法律において、「有価証券の募集」とは、新たに発行される有価証券の取得の申込みの勧誘(これに類するものとして内閣府令で定めるもの(次項において「取得勧誘類似行為」という。)を含む。以下「取得勧誘」という。)のうち、当該取得勧誘が第一項各号に掲げる有価証券又は前項の規定により有価証券とみなされる有価証券表示権利、特定電子記録債権若しくは同項各号に掲げる権利(電子情報処理組織を用いて移転することができる財産的価値(電子機器その他の物に電子的方法により記録されるものに限る。)に表示される場合(流通性その他の事情を勘案して内閣府令で定める場合を除く。)に限る。以下「電子記録移転権利」という。)(次項及び第六項、第二条の三第四項及び第五項並びに第二十三条の十三第四項において「第一項有価証券」という。)に係るものである場合にあつては第一号及び第二号に掲げる場合、当該取得勧誘が前項の規定により有価証券とみなされる同項各号に掲げる権利(電子記録移転権利を除く。次項、第二条の三第四項及び第五項並びに第二十三条の十三第四項において「第二項有価証券」という。)に係るものである場合にあつては第三号に掲げる場合に該当するものをいい、「有価証券の私募」とは、取得勧誘であつて有価証券の募集に該当しないものをいう。

(3)The term "public offering of securities" as used in this Act means, among solicitations of offers to acquire newly issued securities (including acts specified by Cabinet Office Order as being similar to such solicitation (such acts are referred to as "acts similar to solicitation for acquisition" in the following paragraph); hereinafter referred to as "solicitation for acquisition"), the solicitation for acquisition in cases provided for in item (i) or item (ii) below, which is issued with regard to securities set forth in the items of paragraph (1), rights that must be indicated on securities, specified electronically recorded monetary claims, or the rights set forth in the items of that paragraph (but only if they are indicated as a financial value (limited to one that is recorded on an electronic device or any other such object by electronic means) which can be transferred by using an electronic data processing system (excluding the cases that are specified by Cabinet Office Order in consideration of transferability and other circumstances); hereinafter referred to as "electronically recorded transferable rights") that are deemed to be securities under the preceding paragraph (such securities or rights are referred to as the "paragraph (1) securities" in the following paragraph, paragraph (6) of this Article, Article 2-3, paragraphs (4) and (5), and Article 23-13, paragraph (4)); and the solicitation for acquisition in cases provided for in item (iii) below, which is issued with regard to rights that are deemed to be securities under the items of the preceding paragraph (excluding electronically recorded transferable rights; such rights are referred to as the "paragraph (2) securities" in the following paragraph, Article 2-3, paragraphs (4) and (5), and Article 23-13, paragraph (4)); the term "private placement of securities" means solicitation for acquisition which does not come within the purview of a public offering of securities:

一多数の者(適格機関投資家(有価証券に対する投資に係る専門的知識及び経験を有する者として内閣府令で定める者をいう。以下同じ。)が含まれる場合であつて、当該有価証券がその取得者である適格機関投資家から適格機関投資家以外の者に譲渡されるおそれが少ないものとして政令で定める場合に該当するときは、当該適格機関投資家を除く。)を相手方として行う場合として政令で定める場合(特定投資家のみを相手方とする場合を除く。)

(i)cases specified by Cabinet Order as those in which the solicitation for acquisition is issued (unless the solicitation is issued only to professional investors) to a large number of persons (other than qualified institutional investors (meaning persons specified by Cabinet Office Order as having expert knowledge of and experience with investment in securities; the same applies hereinafter), if qualified institutional investors are included in the persons to which the solicitation for acquisition is issued, and the solicitation for acquisition constitutes a case specified by Cabinet Order as one in which there is little likelihood of the relevant securities being transferred from the qualified institutional investor that acquires them to any person other than a qualified institutional investor);

二前号に掲げる場合のほか、次に掲げる場合のいずれにも該当しない場合

(ii)cases in which the solicitation for acquisition is other than as specified in the preceding item, and in which it does not fall under any of the following:

イ適格機関投資家のみを相手方として行う場合であつて、当該有価証券がその取得者から適格機関投資家以外の者に譲渡されるおそれが少ないものとして政令で定める場合

(a)a solicitation for acquisition issued only to qualified institutional investors and constituting a case specified by Cabinet Order as one in which there is little likelihood of the relevant securities being transferred from the person that acquires them to any person other than a qualified institutional investor; and

ロ特定投資家のみを相手方として行う場合であつて、次に掲げる要件の全てに該当するとき(イに掲げる場合を除く。)。

(b)a solicitation for acquisition issued only to professional investors and falling under all of the following requirements (excluding the cases specified in (a)):

(1)当該取得勧誘の相手方が国、日本銀行及び適格機関投資家以外の者である場合にあつては、金融商品取引業者等(第三十四条に規定する金融商品取引業者等をいう。次項、第四条第一項第四号及び第三項、第二十七条の三十二の二並びに第二十七条の三十四の二において同じ。)が顧客からの委託により又は自己のために当該取得勧誘を行うこと。

1.the other party to the solicitation for acquisition is not the State, the Bank of Japan, or a qualified institutional investor, and the solicitation for acquisition is issued by a financial instruments business operator, etc. (meaning a financial instruments business operator, etc. as prescribed in Article 34; the same applies in the following paragraph, Article 4, paragraph (1), item (iv) and paragraph (3), Article 27-32-2, and Article 27-34-2) based on entrustment by customers or on its own behalf;

(2)当該有価証券がその取得者から特定投資家等(特定投資家又は非居住者(外国為替及び外国貿易法(昭和二十四年法律第二百二十八号)第六条第一項第六号に規定する非居住者をいい、政令で定める者に限る。)をいう。以下同じ。)以外の者に譲渡されるおそれが少ないものとして政令で定める場合に該当すること。

2.the solicitation for acquisition comes under the purview of cases specified by Cabinet Order as those in which there is little likelihood of the relevant securities being transferred from the person that acquires them to any person other than a professional investor, etc. (meaning a professional investor or non-resident (meaning a non-resident as defined in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (Act No. 228 of 1949)), and limited to those specified by Cabinet Order; the same applies hereinafter);

ハ前号に掲げる場合並びにイ及びロに掲げる場合以外の場合(当該有価証券と種類を同じくする有価証券の発行及び勧誘の状況等を勘案して政令で定める要件に該当する場合を除く。)であつて、当該有価証券が多数の者に所有されるおそれが少ないものとして政令で定める場合

(c)a solicitation for acquisition falling under neither the case specified in the preceding item, nor (a) and (b) of this item (except if the solicitation for acquisition meets the requirements that are specified by Cabinet Order in consideration of the status, etc. of the issuance and solicitation of securities of the same class as the relevant securities), and constituting a case specified by Cabinet Order as one in which there is little likelihood of the relevant securities being held by a large number of persons;

三その取得勧誘に応じることにより相当程度多数の者が当該取得勧誘に係る有価証券を所有することとなる場合として政令で定める場合

(iii)cases specified by Cabinet Order as those in which, in response to the solicitation for acquisition, a considerably large number of persons will come to hold the securities connected with the solicitation.

4この法律において「有価証券の売出し」とは、既に発行された有価証券の売付けの申込み又はその買付けの申込みの勧誘(取得勧誘類似行為に該当するものその他内閣府令で定めるものを除く。以下「売付け勧誘等」という。)のうち、当該売付け勧誘等が第一項有価証券に係るものである場合にあつては第一号及び第二号に掲げる場合、当該売付け勧誘等が第二項有価証券に係るものである場合にあつては第三号に掲げる場合に該当するもの(取引所金融商品市場における有価証券の売買及びこれに準ずる取引その他の政令で定める有価証券の取引に係るものを除く。)をいう。

(4)The term "secondary distribution of securities" as used in this Act means, among offers to sell and solicitation of offers to purchase already-issued securities (excluding offers and solicitation coming under the purview of Acts similar to the solicitation for acquisition and any other offer or solicitation specified by Cabinet Office Order; hereinafter referred to as a "solicitation for selling, etc."), offers to sell, etc. in cases provided for in item (i) or item (ii), which are made with regard to the paragraph (1) securities; and offers to sell, etc. in cases provided for in item (iii), which are made with regard to the paragraph (2) securities (excluding a solicitation for selling, etc. that involves the purchase and sale of securities on a financial instruments exchange market, a transaction equivalent thereto, and any other securities transactions specified by Cabinet Order):

一多数の者(適格機関投資家が含まれる場合であつて、当該有価証券がその取得者である適格機関投資家から適格機関投資家以外の者に譲渡されるおそれが少ないものとして政令で定める場合に該当するときは、当該適格機関投資家を除く。)を相手方として行う場合として政令で定める場合(特定投資家のみを相手方とする場合を除く。)

(i)cases specified by Cabinet Order as those in which the solicitation for selling, etc. is made (unless the offer is made only to professional investors) to a large number of persons (other than qualified institutional investors, if qualified institutional investors are included in the persons to which the solicitation for selling, etc. is made, and if the solicitation for selling, etc. constitutes a case specified by Cabinet Order as one in which there is little likelihood of the relevant securities being transferred from the qualified institutional investor that acquires them to any person other than a qualified institutional investor);

二前号に掲げる場合のほか、次に掲げる場合のいずれにも該当しない場合

(ii)cases in which the solicitation for selling, etc. is other than as specified in the preceding item, and in which it does not fall under any of the following:

イ適格機関投資家のみを相手方として行う場合であつて、当該有価証券がその取得者から適格機関投資家以外の者に譲渡されるおそれが少ないものとして政令で定める場合

(a)a solicitation for selling, etc. made only to qualified institutional investors and constituting a case specified by Cabinet Order as one in which there is little likelihood of the relevant securities being transferred from the person that acquires them to any person other than a qualified institutional investor;

ロ特定投資家のみを相手方として行う場合であつて、次に掲げる要件の全てに該当するとき(イに掲げる場合を除く。)。

(b)a solicitation for selling, etc. made only to professional investors and falling under all of the following requirements (excluding the cases specified in (a)):

(1)当該売付け勧誘等の相手方が国、日本銀行及び適格機関投資家以外の者である場合にあつては、金融商品取引業者等が顧客からの委託により又は自己のために当該売付け勧誘等を行うこと。

1.the other party to the solicitation for selling, etc. is not the State, the Bank of Japan, or a qualified institutional investor, and the solicitation for selling, etc. is made by a financial instruments business operator, etc. based on entrustment by a customer or on its own behalf;

(2)当該有価証券がその取得者から特定投資家等以外の者に譲渡されるおそれが少ないものとして政令で定める場合に該当すること。

2.the solicitation for selling, etc. comes under the purview of cases specified by Cabinet Order as those in which there is little likelihood of the relevant securities being transferred from the person that acquires them to any person other than a professional investor, etc.;

ハ前号に掲げる場合並びにイ及びロに掲げる場合以外の場合(当該有価証券と種類を同じくする有価証券の発行及び勧誘の状況等を勘案して政令で定める要件に該当する場合を除く。)であつて、当該有価証券が多数の者に所有されるおそれが少ないものとして政令で定める場合

(c)a solicitation for selling, etc. falling under neither the case specified in the preceding item, nor (a) and (b) of this item (except if the solicitation for selling, etc. meets the requirements that are specified by Cabinet Order in consideration of the status, etc. of the issuance and solicitation of securities of the same class as the relevant securities), and constituting a case specified by Cabinet Order as one in which there is little likelihood of the relevant securities being held by a large number of persons;

三その売付け勧誘等に応じることにより相当程度多数の者が当該売付け勧誘等に係る有価証券を所有することとなる場合として政令で定める場合

(iii)cases specified by Cabinet Order as those in which, in response to the solicitation for selling, etc., a considerably large number of persons will come to hold the securities connected with the offer.

5この法律において、「発行者」とは、有価証券を発行し、又は発行しようとする者(内閣府令で定める有価証券については、内閣府令で定める者)をいうものとし、証券又は証書に表示されるべき権利以外の権利で第二項の規定により有価証券とみなされるものについては、権利の種類ごとに内閣府令で定める者が内閣府令で定める時に当該権利を有価証券として発行するものとみなす。

(5)The term "issuer" as used in this Act means the person that issues, or seeks to issue, securities (or the person specified by Cabinet Office Order with regard to the securities specified by Cabinet Office Order); and rights other than those which must be indicated on instruments or certificates, but which are deemed to be securities pursuant to paragraph (2), are deemed to have been issued as securities by the person specified by Cabinet Office Order for each kind of right, at the time specified by Cabinet Office Order.

6この法律(第五章を除く。)において「引受人」とは、有価証券の募集若しくは売出し又は私募若しくは特定投資家向け売付け勧誘等(第一項有価証券に係る売付け勧誘等であつて、第四項第二号ロに掲げる場合に該当するもの(取引所金融商品市場における有価証券の売買及びこれに準ずる取引その他の政令で定める有価証券の取引に係るものを除く。)をいう。以下同じ。)に際し、次の各号のいずれかを行う者をいう。

(6)The term "underwriter" as used in this Act (excluding Chapter V) means a person that, at the time of a public offering, secondary distribution, or private placement of securities, or the time of solicitation for selling, etc. only for professional investors (meaning a solicitation for selling, etc. the paragraph (1) securities which falls under paragraph (4), item (ii), (b) (excluding a solicitation for selling, etc. involving the purchase and sale of securities on a financial instruments exchange market, an equivalent transaction, and any other transaction of securities specified by Cabinet Order; the same applies hereinafter) involving securities, does one of the things set forth in the following items:

一当該有価証券を取得させることを目的として当該有価証券の全部又は一部を取得すること。

(i)acquires all or part of the relevant securities with the aim of having other persons acquire them;

二当該有価証券の全部又は一部につき他にこれを取得する者がない場合にその残部を取得することを内容とする契約をすること。

(ii)concludes a contract stipulating that if no person acquires all or part of the relevant securities, the underwriter will acquire the remaining securities;

三当該有価証券が新株予約権証券(これに準ずるものとして内閣府令で定める有価証券を含む。以下この号において同じ。)である場合において、当該新株予約権証券を取得した者が当該新株予約権証券の全部又は一部につき新株予約権(これに準ずるものとして内閣府令で定める権利を含む。以下この号において同じ。)を行使しないときに当該行使しない新株予約権に係る新株予約権証券を取得して自己又は第三者が当該新株予約権を行使することを内容とする契約をすること。

(iii)concludes a contract, in the event that the relevant securities are share option certificates (including the securities specified by Cabinet Office Order as being equivalent thereto; hereinafter the same applies in this item), stipulating that if the person that has acquired the share option certificates does not exercise the share options (including the rights specified by Cabinet Office Order as being equivalent thereto; hereinafter the same applies in this item) associated with all or part of those share option certificates, the underwriter will acquire the share option certificates associated with the unexercised share options and that it or a third party will exercise them.

7この法律において「有価証券届出書」とは、第五条第一項(同条第五項において準用する場合を含む。以下同じ。)の規定による届出書及び同条第十三項の規定によりこれに添付する書類並びに第七条第一項、第九条第一項又は第十条第一項の規定による訂正届出書をいう。

(7)The term "securities registration statement" as used in this Act means the statement referred to in Article 5, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 5, paragraph (5); the same applies hereinafter), documents accompanying it pursuant to Article 5, paragraph (13), and any amended statement as under Article 7, paragraph (1), Article 9, paragraph (1) or Article 10, paragraph (1).

8この法律において「金融商品取引業」とは、次に掲げる行為(その内容等を勘案し、投資者の保護のため支障を生ずることがないと認められるものとして政令で定めるもの及び銀行、優先出資法第二条第一項に規定する協同組織金融機関(以下「協同組織金融機関」という。)その他政令で定める金融機関が行う第十二号、第十四号、第十五号又は第二十八条第八項各号に掲げるものを除く。)のいずれかを業として行うことをいう。

(8)The term "financial instruments business" as used in this Act means performance of any of the following acts (excluding those that are specified by Cabinet Order as acts which, in consideration of their content and other factors, are found not to compromise the protection of investors, and the acts set forth in item (xii), (xiv), and (xv) of this paragraph and in the items of Article 28, paragraph (8), when performed by a bank, a cooperative financial institution defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Preferred Equity Investment (hereinafter referred to as a "cooperative financial institution") or other financial institutions specified by Cabinet Order) on a regular basis:

一有価証券の売買(デリバティブ取引に該当するものを除く。以下同じ。)、市場デリバティブ取引(金融商品(第二十四項第三号の三に掲げるものに限る。)又は金融指標(当該金融商品の価格及びこれに基づいて算出した数値に限る。)に係る市場デリバティブ取引(以下「商品関連市場デリバティブ取引」という。)を除く。)又は外国市場デリバティブ取引(有価証券の売買にあつては、第十号に掲げるものを除く。)

(i)the purchase and sale of securities (excluding those falling under the category of derivatives transactions; the same applies hereinafter), market derivatives transactions (excluding market derivatives transactions associated with financial instruments (limited to those listed in paragraph (24), item (iii)-3) or financial indexes (limited to the prices of those financial instruments and the figures calculated based on the prices) (hereinafter referred to as "commodity-related market derivatives transactions")) or foreign market derivatives transactions (excluding the purchase and sale of securities falling under item (x));

二有価証券の売買、市場デリバティブ取引又は外国市場デリバティブ取引の媒介、取次ぎ(有価証券等清算取次ぎを除く。)又は代理(有価証券の売買の媒介、取次ぎ又は代理にあつては、第十号に掲げるものを除く。)

(ii)intermediation, brokerage (excluding brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.), or agency for the purchase and sale of securities, market derivatives transactions, or foreign market derivatives transactions (excluding intermediation, brokerage, or agency for the purchase and sale of securities which falls under item (x));

三次に掲げる取引の委託の媒介、取次ぎ又は代理

(iii)intermediation, brokerage, or agency for entrustment of the following transactions:

イ取引所金融商品市場における有価証券の売買又は市場デリバティブ取引

(a)the purchase and sale of securities or market derivatives transactions on a financial instruments exchange market;

ロ外国金融商品市場(取引所金融商品市場に類似する市場で外国に所在するものをいう。以下同じ。)における有価証券の売買又は外国市場デリバティブ取引

(b)the purchase and sale of securities or foreign market derivatives transactions on a foreign financial instruments market (meaning a market in a foreign country which is similar to a financial instruments exchange market; the same applies hereinafter);

四店頭デリバティブ取引又はその媒介、取次ぎ(有価証券等清算取次ぎを除く。)若しくは代理(以下「店頭デリバティブ取引等」という。)

(iv)over-the-counter derivatives transactions or intermediation, brokerage (excluding brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.), or agency for them (hereinafter referred to as "over-the-counter derivatives transactions, etc.");

五有価証券等清算取次ぎ

(v)brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.;

六有価証券の引受け(有価証券の募集若しくは売出し又は私募若しくは特定投資家向け売付け勧誘等に際し、第六項各号に掲げるもののいずれかを行うことをいう。)

(vi)the underwriting of securities (meaning doing any of the things set forth in an item of paragraph (6) at the time of a public offering, secondary distribution, private placement of securities, or solicitation for selling, etc. only for professional investors);

七有価証券(次に掲げるものに限る。)の募集又は私募

(vii)the public offering or private placement of securities (limited to those set forth in the following items):

イ第一項第十号に規定する投資信託の受益証券のうち、投資信託及び投資法人に関する法律第二条第一項に規定する委託者指図型投資信託の受益権に係るもの

(a)beneficiary certificates of investment trusts specified in paragraph (1), item (x) which are connected to the beneficial interest in an investment trust managed under instructions from the settlor provided for in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations;

ロ第一項第十号に規定する外国投資信託の受益証券

(b)beneficiary certificates of foreign investment trusts specified in paragraph (1), item (x);

ハ第一項第十六号に掲げる有価証券

(c)securities specified in paragraph (1), item (xvi);

ニ第一項第十七号に掲げる有価証券のうち、同項第十六号に掲げる有価証券の性質を有するもの

(d)securities specified in paragraph (1), item (xvii) which have the nature of securities specified in item (xvi) of that paragraph;

ホイ若しくはロに掲げる有価証券に表示されるべき権利又はハ若しくはニに掲げる有価証券のうち内閣府令で定めるものに表示されるべき権利であつて、第二項の規定により有価証券とみなされるもの

(e)rights that must be indicated on the securities specified in (a) or (b) above, or rights that must be indicated on the securities under (c) or (d) above which are specified by Cabinet Office Order, which are deemed to be securities pursuant to paragraph (2);

ヘ第二項の規定により有価証券とみなされる同項第五号又は第六号に掲げる権利

(f)rights specified in paragraph (2), item (v) or item (vi) which are deemed to be securities pursuant to that paragraph; and

トイからヘまでに掲げるもののほか、政令で定める有価証券

(g)the securities other than those set forth in (a) through (f) which are specified by Cabinet Order;

八有価証券の売出し又は特定投資家向け売付け勧誘等

(viii)secondary distribution of securities or solicitation for selling, etc. only for professional investors;

九有価証券の募集若しくは売出しの取扱い又は私募若しくは特定投資家向け売付け勧誘等の取扱い

(ix)the handling of a public offering or secondary distribution of securities, or the handling of a private placement of securities or solicitation for selling, etc. only for professional investors;

十有価証券の売買又はその媒介、取次ぎ若しくは代理であつて、電子情報処理組織を使用して、同時に多数の者を一方の当事者又は各当事者として次に掲げる売買価格の決定方法又はこれに類似する方法により行うもの(取り扱う有価証券の種類等に照らして取引所金融商品市場又は店頭売買有価証券市場(第六十七条第二項に規定する店頭売買有価証券市場をいう。)以外において行うことが投資者保護のため適当でないと認められるものとして政令で定めるものを除く。)

(x)the purchase and sale of securities or intermediation, brokerage, or agency for it, using an electronic data processing system, conducted through any of the following methods for deciding the trading price or other similar methods, with a large number of persons participating simultaneously as parties on one side of the transaction or as parties on both sides of the transaction (excluding those specified by Cabinet Order as transactions that are found to be inappropriate in terms of investor protection if conducted outside a financial instruments exchange market or an over-the-counter securities market (meaning an over-the-counter securities market provided for in Article 67, paragraph (2))):

イ競売買の方法(有価証券の売買高が政令で定める基準を超えない場合に限る。)

(a)by auction (but only if the trading volume of Securities does not exceed the criteria specified by Cabinet Order);

ロ金融商品取引所に上場されている有価証券について、当該金融商品取引所が開設する取引所金融商品市場における当該有価証券の売買価格を用いる方法

(b)for securities listed on a financial instruments exchange, by using the trading price of the securities on the financial instruments exchange market that is operated by the relevant financial instruments exchange;

ハ第六十七条の十一第一項の規定により登録を受けた有価証券(以下「店頭売買有価証券」という。)について、当該登録を行う認可金融商品取引業協会が公表する当該有価証券の売買価格を用いる方法

(c)for securities registered under Article 67-11, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "over-the-counter traded securities"), by using the trading price of the securities which is published by the authorized financial instruments firms association to which the securities are registered;

ニ顧客の間の交渉に基づく価格を用いる方法

(d)by using the price decided by negotiation between the customers; and

ホイからニまでに掲げるもののほか、内閣府令で定める方法

(e)methods other than those set forth in (a) through (d), which are specified by Cabinet Office Order;

十一当事者の一方が相手方に対して次に掲げるものに関し、口頭、文書(新聞、雑誌、書籍その他不特定多数の者に販売することを目的として発行されるもので、不特定多数の者により随時に購入可能なものを除く。)その他の方法により助言を行うことを約し、相手方がそれに対し報酬を支払うことを約する契約(以下「投資顧問契約」という。)を締結し、当該投資顧問契約に基づき、助言を行うこと。

(xi)conclusion of a contract in which one of the parties promises to provide the other party with oral, written (excluding newspapers, magazines, books, or any other written work that is issued for sale to many and unspecified persons and which many and unspecified persons can buy as needed), or any other form of advice about the following things, and the other party promises to pay remuneration for this (such a contract is hereinafter referred to as an "investment advisory contract"), and provision of advice under such investment advisory contract:

イ有価証券の価値等(有価証券の価値、有価証券関連オプション(金融商品市場において金融商品市場を開設する者の定める基準及び方法に従い行う第二十八条第八項第三号ハに掲げる取引に係る権利、外国金融商品市場において行う取引であつて同号ハに掲げる取引と類似の取引に係る権利又は金融商品市場及び外国金融商品市場によらないで行う同項第四号ハ若しくはニに掲げる取引に係る権利をいう。)の対価の額又は有価証券指標(有価証券の価格若しくは利率その他これに準ずるものとして内閣府令で定めるもの又はこれらに基づいて算出した数値をいう。)の動向をいう。)

(a)the value, etc. of securities (meaning the value of securities, the amount receivable for options on securities (meaning the right to conduct a transaction provided for in Article 28, paragraph (8), item (iii), (c) on a financial instruments market in accordance with the standards and means prescribed by the person operating the financial instruments market, the right to conduct a transaction similar to the transaction provided for in Article 28, paragraph (8), item (iii), (c) on a foreign financial instruments market, or the right to conduct a transaction set forth in item (iv), (c) or (d) of that paragraph without using a financial instruments market or foreign financial instruments market), and the movement of securities indicators (meaning the price or interest rate of securities and anything else specified by Cabinet Office Order as being equivalent thereto, or figures calculated based thereon)); or

ロ金融商品の価値等(金融商品(第二十四項第三号の三に掲げるものにあつては、金融商品取引所に上場されているものに限る。)の価値、オプションの対価の額又は金融指標(同号に掲げる金融商品に係るものにあつては、金融商品取引所に上場されているものに限る。)の動向をいう。以下同じ。)の分析に基づく投資判断(投資の対象となる有価証券の種類、銘柄、数及び価格並びに売買の別、方法及び時期についての判断又は行うべきデリバティブ取引の内容及び時期についての判断をいう。以下同じ。)

(b)investment decisions (meaning decisions on the classes, issues, volumes, or prices of securities targeted for investment, as well as whether the securities are purchased or sold and by what method and at what timing, and decisions on what should be the content and timing of any derivatives transactions that are conducted; the same applies hereinafter) based on an analysis of the values, etc. of financial instruments (meaning the value of financial instruments (in the case of those listed in paragraph (24), item (iii)-3, limited to those listed on a financial instruments exchange), amount receivable for options, and trends of financial indexes (in the case of those associated with the financial instruments set forth in that item, limited to those listed on a financial instruments exchange); the same applies hereinafter);

十二次に掲げる契約を締結し、当該契約に基づき、金融商品の価値等の分析に基づく投資判断に基づいて有価証券又はデリバティブ取引に係る権利に対する投資として、金銭その他の財産の運用(その指図を含む。以下同じ。)を行うこと。

(xii)conclusion of the following contracts, and the management of money or any other property (including instructions for that management; the same applies hereinafter), based on such contract, as an investment in securities or in rights connected with derivatives transactions, based on investment decisions that are grounded in an analysis of the values, etc. of Financial Instruments:

イ投資信託及び投資法人に関する法律第二条第十三項に規定する登録投資法人と締結する同法第百八十八条第一項第四号に規定する資産の運用に係る委託契約

(a)an entrustment contract for the asset management provided for in Article 188, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations, concluded with a registered investment corporation as defined in Article 2, paragraph (13) of that Act; or

ロイに掲げるもののほか、当事者の一方が、相手方から、金融商品の価値等の分析に基づく投資判断の全部又は一部を一任されるとともに、当該投資判断に基づき当該相手方のため投資を行うのに必要な権限を委任されることを内容とする契約(以下「投資一任契約」という。)

(b)a contract other than what is set forth in (a), in which one of the parties is fully or partly entrusted by the other party with the discretion to make investment decisions based on an analysis of the values, etc. of financial instruments, and is also entrusted with the authority necessary to make investments on behalf of the other party based on such investment decisions (such a contract is hereinafter referred to as a "discretionary investment contract");

十三投資顧問契約又は投資一任契約の締結の代理又は媒介

(xiii)agency or intermediation for the conclusion of an investment advisory contract or a discretionary investment contract;

十四金融商品の価値等の分析に基づく投資判断に基づいて有価証券又はデリバティブ取引に係る権利に対する投資として、第一項第十号に掲げる有価証券に表示される権利その他の政令で定める権利を有する者から拠出を受けた金銭その他の財産の運用を行うこと(第十二号に掲げる行為に該当するものを除く。)。

(xiv)the management (excluding management that falls under the category of act set forth in (xii)) of money or other property contributed by a person that holds rights indicated on the securities specified in paragraph (1), item (x) or other rights specified by Cabinet Order, as an investment in securities or in rights connected with derivatives transactions, based on investment decisions that are grounded in an analysis of the values, etc. of financial instruments;

十五金融商品の価値等の分析に基づく投資判断に基づいて主として有価証券又はデリバティブ取引に係る権利に対する投資として、次に掲げる権利その他政令で定める権利を有する者から出資又は拠出を受けた金銭その他の財産の運用を行うこと(第十二号及び前号に掲げる行為に該当するものを除く。)。

(xv)the management (excluding management that falls under the category of act set forth in (xii)) of money or other property invested or contributed by a person that holds the following rights or other rights specified by Cabinet Order, as an investment mainly in securities or in rights connected with derivatives transactions, based on investment decisions that are grounded in an analysis of the values, etc. of financial instruments:

イ第一項第十四号に掲げる有価証券又は同項第十七号に掲げる有価証券(同項第十四号に掲げる有価証券の性質を有するものに限る。)に表示される権利

(a)rights indicated on the securities specified in paragraph (1), item (xiv) or securities specified in item (xvii) of that paragraph (limited to those that have the nature of the securities specified in item (xiv) of that paragraph);

ロ第二項第一号又は第二号に掲げる権利

(b)rights set forth in paragraph (2), item (i) or (ii); or

ハ第二項第五号又は第六号に掲げる権利

(c)rights set forth in paragraph (2), item (v) or (vi);

十六その行う第一号から第十号までに掲げる行為に関して、顧客から金銭、第一項各号に掲げる証券若しくは証書又は電子記録移転権利の預託を受けること(商品関連市場デリバティブ取引についての第二号、第三号又は第五号に掲げる行為を行う場合にあつては、これらの行為に関して、顧客から商品(第二十四項第三号の三に掲げるものをいう。以下この号において同じ。)又は寄託された商品に関して発行された証券若しくは証書の預託を受けることを含む。)。

(xvi)the acceptance of deposits of money, the instruments or certificates set forth in the items of paragraph (1), or electronically recorded transferable rights from customers, in connection with an act set forth in items (i) through (x) of this paragraph (in the case of conducting the acts set forth in item (ii), (iii) or (v) in connection with commodity-related market derivatives transactions, including acceptance from the customer of deposits of commodities (meaning those set forth in paragraph (24), item (iii)-3; hereinafter the same applies in this item), or instruments or certificates issued in connection with the deposited commodity in relation to these acts);

十七社債等の振替に関する法律(平成十三年法律第七十五号)第二条第一項に規定する社債等の振替を行うために口座の開設を受けて社債等の振替を行うこと。

(xvii)the transfer of bonds, etc. in response to the opening of an account in order to carry out a transfer of the bonds, etc. defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Book-Entry Transfer of Corporate Bonds and Shares (Act No. 75 of 2001); or

十八前各号に掲げる行為に類するものとして政令で定める行為

(xviii)acts specified by Cabinet Order as being similar to the acts set forth in the preceding items.

9この法律において「金融商品取引業者」とは、第二十九条の規定により内閣総理大臣の登録を受けた者をいう。

(9)The term "financial instruments business operator" as used in this Act means a person registered by the Prime Minister pursuant to Article 29.

10この法律において「目論見書」とは、有価証券の募集若しくは売出し、第四条第二項に規定する適格機関投資家取得有価証券一般勧誘(有価証券の売出しに該当するものを除く。)又は同条第三項に規定する特定投資家等取得有価証券一般勧誘(有価証券の売出しに該当するものを除く。)のために当該有価証券の発行者の事業その他の事項に関する説明を記載する文書であつて、相手方に交付し、又は相手方からの交付の請求があつた場合に交付するものをいう。

(10)The term "prospectus" as used in this Act means a document describing the business and other particulars of an issuer of securities, which is prepared for a public offering or secondary distribution of securities, a general solicitation for involving securities acquired by a qualified institutional investor as defined in Article 4, paragraph (2) (excluding those falling under the category of secondary distribution of securities), or a general solicitation involving securities acquired by a professional investor as set forth in Article 4, paragraph (3) (excluding those falling under the category of a secondary distribution of securities), and which is delivered, or is to be delivered upon request, to the other party to the public offering or secondary distribution.

11この法律において「金融商品仲介業」とは、金融商品取引業者(第二十八条第一項に規定する第一種金融商品取引業又は同条第四項に規定する投資運用業を行う者に限る。)又は登録金融機関(第三十三条の二の登録を受けた銀行、協同組織金融機関その他政令で定める金融機関をいう。以下同じ。)の委託を受けて、次に掲げる行為(同項に規定する投資運用業を行う者が行う第四号に掲げる行為を除く。)のいずれかを当該金融商品取引業者又は登録金融機関のために行う業務をいう。

(11)The term "financial instruments intermediary service" as used in this Act means services that fall under the category of any of the following acts (excluding the act provided for in item (iv) below if performed by a person engaged in investment management business as defined in Article 28, paragraph (4)), which are provided for and under entrustment from a financial instruments business operator (limited to a person that engages in the type-I financial instruments business provided for in Article 28, paragraph (1) or investment management business provided for in Article 28, paragraph (4)) or a registered financial institution (meaning a bank, cooperative financial institution, or other financial institution specified by Cabinet Order, which is registered as under Article 33-2; the same applies hereinafter):

一有価証券の売買の媒介(第八項第十号に掲げるものを除く。)

(i)intermediation for the purchase and sale of securities (excluding intermediation set forth in paragraph (8), item (x));

二第八項第三号に規定する媒介

(ii)the intermediation set forth in paragraph (8), item (iii);

三第八項第九号に掲げる行為

(iii)the act set forth in paragraph (8), item (ix); or

四第八項第十三号に規定する媒介

(iv)the intermediation set forth in paragraph (8), item (xiii).

12この法律において「金融商品仲介業者」とは、第六十六条の規定により内閣総理大臣の登録を受けた者をいう。

(12)The term "financial instruments intermediary service provider" as used in this Act means a person registered by the Prime Minister pursuant to Article 66.

13この法律において「認可金融商品取引業協会」とは、第四章第一節第一款の規定に基づいて設立された者をいう。

(13)The term "authorized financial instruments firms association" as used in this Act means a person incorporated based on the provisions of Chapter IV, Section 1, Subsection 1.

14この法律において「金融商品市場」とは、有価証券の売買又は市場デリバティブ取引を行う市場(商品関連市場デリバティブ取引のみを行うものを除く。)をいう。

(14)The term "financial instruments market" as used in this Act means a market on which the purchase and sale of securities or market derivatives transactions are conducted (excluding a market in which only commodity-related market derivatives transactions are conducted).

15この法律において「金融商品会員制法人」とは、金融商品市場の開設を目的として第五章第二節第一款の規定に基づいて設立された会員組織の社団をいう。

(15)The term "financial instruments membership corporation" as used in this Act means a membership association incorporated based on the provisions of Chapter V, Section 2, Subsection 1 for the purpose of operating a financial instruments market.

16この法律において「金融商品取引所」とは、第八十条第一項の規定により内閣総理大臣の免許を受けて金融商品市場を開設する金融商品会員制法人又は株式会社をいう。

(16)The term "financial instruments exchange" as used in this Act means a financial instruments membership corporation or stock company which operates a financial instruments market after being licensed by the Prime Minister pursuant to Article 80, paragraph (1).

17この法律において「取引所金融商品市場」とは、金融商品取引所の開設する金融商品市場をいう。

(17)The term "financial instruments exchange market" as used in this Act means a financial instruments market operated by a financial instruments exchange.

18この法律において「金融商品取引所持株会社」とは、取引所金融商品市場を開設する株式会社(以下「株式会社金融商品取引所」という。)を子会社(第八十七条の三第三項に規定する子会社をいう。)とする株式会社であつて、第百六条の十第一項の規定により内閣総理大臣の認可を受けて設立され、又は同項若しくは同条第三項ただし書の規定により内閣総理大臣の認可を受けているものをいう。

(18)The term "financial instruments exchange holding company" as used in this Act means a stock company whose subsidiary companies (meaning a subsidiary company as set forth in Article 87-3, paragraph (3)) include a stock company that operates a financial instruments exchange market (hereinafter referred to as a "incorporated financial instruments exchange"), which is incorporated after obtaining the authorization of the Prime Minister pursuant Article 106-10, paragraph (1) or which has obtained the authorization of the Prime Minister pursuant to that paragraph or the proviso to paragraph (3) of that Article.

19この法律において「取引参加者」とは、第百十二条第一項若しくは第二項又は第百十三条第一項若しくは第二項の規定による取引資格に基づき、取引所金融商品市場における有価証券の売買又は市場デリバティブ取引に参加できる者をいう。

(19)The term "trading participant" as used in this Act means a person that is allowed to participate in the purchase and sale of securities or market derivatives transactions on a financial instruments exchange market, based on a trading license under Article 112, paragraph (1) paragraph (2), or Article 113, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2).

20この法律において「デリバティブ取引」とは、市場デリバティブ取引、店頭デリバティブ取引又は外国市場デリバティブ取引をいう。

(20)The term "derivatives transactions" as used in this Act means market derivatives transaction, over-the-counter derivatives transactions, or foreign market derivatives transaction.

21この法律において「市場デリバティブ取引」とは、金融商品市場において、金融商品市場を開設する者の定める基準及び方法に従い行う次に掲げる取引をいう。

(21)The term "market derivatives transactions" as used in this Act means the following transactions as conducted on a financial instruments market in compliance with the standards and means prescribed by the person that operates the financial instruments market:

一売買の当事者が将来の一定の時期において金融商品及びその対価の授受を約する売買であつて、当該売買の目的となつている金融商品の転売又は買戻しをしたときは差金の授受によつて決済することができる取引

(i)a transaction comprising a purchase and sale in which the parties promise to deliver and take delivery of a financial instrument and its value at a fixed time in the future, which the parties may settle by delivering and taking delivery of the difference in values if they sell or buy back the underlying financial instrument;

二当事者があらかじめ金融指標として約定する数値(以下「約定数値」という。)と将来の一定の時期における現実の当該金融指標の数値(以下「現実数値」という。)の差に基づいて算出される金銭の授受を約する取引

(ii)a transaction comprising the parties' promises to pay and receive an amount of money calculated based on the difference between the numerical value of a financial index upon which the parties agree in advance (hereinafter referred to as the "agreed figure") and the actual numerical value of the financial index at a fixed time in the future (hereinafter referred to as the "actual figure");

三当事者の一方の意思表示により当事者間において次に掲げる取引を成立させることができる権利を相手方が当事者の一方に付与し、当事者の一方がこれに対して対価を支払うことを約する取引

(iii)a transaction comprising the first party's promise to grant the second party the option of effecting any of the following transactions between them by a unilateral manifestation of the second party's intention alone, and the second party's promise to pay the value of that option:

イ金融商品の売買(第一号に掲げる取引を除く。)

(a)the purchase and sale of financial instruments (excluding a transaction provided for in item (i)); or

ロ前二号及び次号から第六号までに掲げる取引(前号又は第四号の二に掲げる取引に準ずる取引で金融商品取引所の定めるものを含む。)

(b)a transaction provided for in any of the preceding two items or in the following item to item (vi) (including any transaction designated by the financial instruments exchange that is equivalent to a transaction specified in the preceding item or item (iv)-2);

四当事者が元本として定めた金額について当事者の一方が相手方と取り決めた金融商品(第二十四項第三号及び第三号の三に掲げるものを除く。)の利率等(利率その他これに準ずるものとして内閣府令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。)又は金融指標(金融商品(これらの号に掲げるものを除く。)の利率等及びこれに基づいて算出した数値を除く。以下この号及び次項第五号において同じ。)の約定した期間における変化率に基づいて金銭を支払い、相手方が当事者の一方と取り決めた金融商品(第二十四項第三号及び第三号の三に掲げるものを除く。)の利率等又は金融指標の約定した期間における変化率に基づいて金銭を支払うことを相互に約する取引(これらの金銭の支払とあわせて当該元本として定めた金額に相当する金銭又は金融商品を授受することを約するものを含む。)

(iv)a transaction comprising the parties' mutual promise that, for the amount of money they have set as the principal, the first party will pay money to the second based on the rate of change in the interest rate, etc. (meaning the interest rate or any other rate specified by Cabinet Office Order as being equivalent to interest rate; the same applies hereinafter) of an agreed-upon financial instrument (excluding those set forth in Article 2, paragraph (24), item (iii) and item (iii)-3) or based on the rate of change in an agreed-upon financial index (excluding interest rates, etc. of financial instruments (excluding those set forth in Article 2, paragraph (24), item (iii) and item (iii)-3) and figures calculated based on them; hereinafter the same applies in this item and item (v) of the following paragraph) during the period they have agreed to, and the second party will pay money to the first based on the rate of change in the interest rate, etc. of an agreed-upon financial instrument (excluding those set forth in these items) or based on the rate of change in an agreed-upon financial index during the period they have agreed to (including transactions in which the parties promise that, in addition to paying those amounts, they will also pay or deliver and receive money or financial instruments equivalent to the amount they have set as the principal);

四の二当事者が数量を定めた金融商品(第二十四項第三号の三に掲げるものに限る。以下この号において同じ。)について当事者の一方が相手方と取り決めた当該金融商品に係る金融指標の約定した期間における変化率に基づいて金銭を支払い、相手方が当事者の一方と取り決めた当該金融指標の約定した期間における変化率に基づいて金銭を支払うことを相互に約する取引

(iv)-2transactions wherein the parties mutually promise that, for the financial instruments (limited to those listed in paragraph (24), item (iii)-3; hereinafter the same applies in this item) of the quantity the parties have agreed to, one of the parties will pay the amount of money calculated based on the rate of change in the agreed period of a financial index associated with the financial instruments agreed with the other party, and the other party will pay the amount of money calculated based on the rate of change in the agreed period of the financial index agreed with the former party;

五当事者の一方が金銭を支払い、これに対して当事者があらかじめ定めた次に掲げるいずれかの事由が発生した場合において相手方が金銭を支払うことを約する取引(当該事由が発生した場合において、当事者の一方が金融商品、金融商品に係る権利又は金銭債権(金融商品であるもの及び金融商品に係る権利であるものを除く。)を移転することを約するものを含み、第二号から前号までに掲げるものを除く。)

(v)a transaction comprising the first party's promise to pay money to the second, and the second party's promise to pay money to the first if any of the following causes that the parties have stipulated in advance occurs (including transactions comprising the first party's promise to transfer a financial instrument, the rights connected to a financial instrument, or a monetary claim (other than a claim that constitutes a financial instrument or the rights connected to a financial instrument), but excluding transactions set forth in item (ii) to the preceding item):

イ法人の信用状態に係る事由その他これに類似するものとして政令で定めるもの

(a)a cause involving the credit status of a corporation or other similar causes specified by Cabinet Order; or

ロ当事者がその発生に影響を及ぼすことが不可能又は著しく困難な事由であつて、当該当事者その他の事業者の事業活動に重大な影響を与えるものとして政令で定めるもの(イに掲げるものを除く。)

(b)a cause on whose occurrence it is impossible or extremely difficult for either party to exert an influence, and which is specified by Cabinet Order as a thing that may have a material impact on the business activities of the parties or other business persons or firms (excluding causes specified in (a));

六前各号に掲げる取引に類似する取引であつて、政令で定めるもの

(vi)transactions similar to a transaction set forth in the preceding items and specified by Cabinet Order.

22この法律において「店頭デリバティブ取引」とは、金融商品市場及び外国金融商品市場によらないで行う次に掲げる取引(その内容等を勘案し、公益又は投資者の保護のため支障を生ずることがないと認められるものとして政令で定めるものを除く。)をいう。

(22)The term "over-the-counter derivatives transactions" as used in this Act means the following transactions as conducted neither on a financial instruments market nor on a foreign financial instruments market (except those that are specified by Cabinet Order as transactions which, in consideration of their content and other related factors, are found not to compromise the public interest or the protection of investors):

一売買の当事者が将来の一定の時期において金融商品(第二十四項第三号の三及び第五号に掲げるものを除く。第三号及び第六号において同じ。)及びその対価の授受を約する売買であつて、当該売買の目的となつている金融商品の売戻し又は買戻しその他政令で定める行為をしたときは差金の授受によつて決済することができる取引

(i)a transaction comprising a purchase and sale in which the parties to the purchase and sale promise to deliver and take delivery of a financial instrument (other than one set forth in paragraph (24), item (iii)-3 and item (v); the same applies in item (iii) and item (vi)) and its value at a fixed time in the future, and which the parties may settle by delivering and taking delivery of the difference in values if they sell back or buy back the underlying financial instrument or if they take other actions specified by Cabinet Order;

二約定数値(第二十四項第三号の三又は第五号に掲げる金融商品に係る金融指標の数値を除く。)と現実数値(これらの号に掲げる金融商品に係る金融指標の数値を除く。)の差に基づいて算出される金銭の授受を約する取引又はこれに類似する取引

(ii)a transaction comprising the parties' promises to pay and receive an amount of money calculated based on the difference between the agreed figure (excluding a figure of a financial index associated with the financial instruments set forth in paragraph (24), item (iii)-3 or item (v)) and the actual figure (excluding a figure of a financial indicator associated with the financial instruments set forth in those items) or any transaction similar thereto; and

三当事者の一方の意思表示により当事者間において次に掲げる取引を成立させることができる権利を相手方が当事者の一方に付与し、当事者の一方がこれに対して対価を支払うことを約する取引又はこれに類似する取引

(iii)a transaction comprising the first party's promise to grant the second party the option of effecting any of the following transactions between them by a unilateral manifestation of the second party's intention alone, and the second party's promise to pay the value of that option, or any transaction similar thereto:

イ金融商品の売買(第一号に掲げる取引を除く。)

(a)the purchase and sale of financial instruments (excluding the transactions specified in item (i)); or

ロ前二号及び第五号から第七号までに掲げる取引

(b)a transaction provided for in the preceding two items or items (v) through (vii);

四当事者の一方の意思表示により当事者間において当該意思表示を行う場合の金融指標(第二十四項第三号の三又は第五号に掲げる金融商品に係るものを除く。)としてあらかじめ約定する数値と現に当該意思表示を行つた時期における現実の当該金融指標の数値の差に基づいて算出される金銭を授受することとなる取引を成立させることができる権利を相手方が当事者の一方に付与し、当事者の一方がこれに対して対価を支払うことを約する取引又はこれに類似する取引

(iv)a transaction comprising the first party's promise to grant the second party the option of effecting a transaction by a unilateral manifestation of the second party's intention alone, in which the parties pay and receive the amount of money calculated based on the difference between the numerical value that they have agreed in advance to use as the agreed figure for the relevant financial index if the second party manifests the intention to effect the transaction, and the actual figure of the financial index (excluding a financial indicator associated with the financial instruments set forth in paragraph (24), item (iii)-3 or item (v)) at the time the second party manifests that intention, and the second party's promise to pay the value of that option, or any transaction similar thereto;

五当事者が元本として定めた金額について当事者の一方が相手方と取り決めた金融商品(第二十四項第三号、第三号の三及び第五号に掲げるものを除く。)の利率等若しくは金融指標の約定した期間における変化率に基づいて金銭を支払い、相手方が当事者の一方と取り決めた金融商品(これらの号に掲げるものを除く。)の利率等若しくは金融指標の約定した期間における変化率に基づいて金銭を支払うことを相互に約する取引(これらの金銭の支払とあわせて当該元本として定めた金額に相当する金銭又は金融商品(同項第三号の三及び第五号に掲げるものを除く。)を授受することを約するものを含む。)又はこれに類似する取引

(v)a transaction comprising the parties' mutual promise that, for the amount they have set as the principal, the first party will pay money to the second party based on the interest rate, etc. of an agreed-upon financial instrument (excluding one as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (24), item (iii), item (iii)-3 and item (v)) or based on the rate of change in an agreed-upon financial index during the period they have agreed to, and the second party will pay money to the first party based on the interest rate, etc. of an agreed-upon financial instrument (excluding those set forth in these items) or based on the rate of change in an agreed-upon financial index during the period they have agreed to (including transactions in which the parties promise that, in addition to paying those amounts, they will also pay or deliver and receive money or financial instruments (excluding those listed in item (iii)-3 and item (v) of that paragraph) equivalent to the amount they have set as the principal), or any transaction similar thereto;

六当事者の一方が金銭を支払い、これに対して当事者があらかじめ定めた次に掲げるいずれかの事由が発生した場合において相手方が金銭を支払うことを約する取引(当該事由が発生した場合において、当事者の一方が金融商品、金融商品に係る権利又は金銭債権(金融商品であるもの及び金融商品に係る権利であるものを除く。)を移転することを約するものを含み、第二号から前号までに掲げるものを除く。)又はこれに類似する取引

(vi)a transaction comprising the first party's promise to pay money to the second, and the second party's promise to pay money to the first if any of the following causes that the parties have stipulated in advance occurs (including transactions comprising the first party's promise to transfer a financial instrument, the rights connected to a financial instrument, or a monetary claim (other than a claim that constitutes a financial instrument or the rights connected to a financial instrument), but excluding the transactions set forth in item (ii) to the preceding item), or any transaction similar thereto:

イ法人の信用状態に係る事由その他これに類似するものとして政令で定めるもの

(a)a cause involving the credit status of a corporation or other similar cause as specified by Cabinet Order; or

ロ当事者がその発生に影響を及ぼすことが不可能又は著しく困難な事由であつて、当該当事者その他の事業者の事業活動に重大な影響を与えるものとして政令で定めるもの(イに掲げるものを除く。)

(b)a cause on whose occurrence it is impossible or extremely difficult for either party to exert an influence, and which is specified by Cabinet Order as a thing that may have a material impact on the business activities of the parties or other persons or firms (excluding causes specified in (a));

七前各号に掲げるもののほか、これらと同様の経済的性質を有する取引であつて、公益又は投資者の保護を確保することが必要と認められるものとして政令で定める取引

(vii)a transaction other than what is set forth in the preceding items, but which has an economic nature similar thereto and is specified by Cabinet Order as a transaction regarding which it is found to be necessary to ensure the public interest or the protection of investors.

23この法律において「外国市場デリバティブ取引」とは、外国金融商品市場において行う取引であつて、市場デリバティブ取引と類似の取引(金融商品(次項第三号の三に掲げるものに限る。)又は金融指標(当該金融商品の価格及びこれに基づいて算出した数値に限る。)に係るものを除く。)をいう。

(23)The term "foreign market derivatives transaction" as used in this Act means a transaction that is conducted on a foreign financial instruments market and is similar to a market derivatives transaction (excluding those associated with the financial instruments (limited to those set forth in item (iii)-3 of the following paragraph) or financial indexes (limited to the prices of the financial instruments and the figures calculated based on them)).

24この法律において「金融商品」とは、次に掲げるものをいう。

(24)The term "financial instruments" as used in this Act means the following:

一有価証券

(i)securities;

二預金契約に基づく債権その他の権利又は当該権利を表示する証券若しくは証書であつて政令で定めるもの(前号に掲げるものを除く。)

(ii)rights such as claims based on a deposit contract, or instruments or certificates indicating such rights, which are specified by Cabinet Order (excluding those specified in the preceding item);

三通貨

(iii)currencies;

三の二暗号等資産(資金決済に関する法律第二条第十四項に規定する暗号資産又は同条第五項第四号に掲げるもののうち投資者の保護を確保することが必要と認められるものとして内閣府令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。)

(iii)-2crypto-and other assets (meaning the cryptoassets prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Payment Services Act or what is set forth in paragraph (5), item (iv) of that Article which is specified by Cabinet Office Order as anything for which it is found necessary to ensure the public interest or the protection of investors; the same applies hereinafter);

三の三商品(商品先物取引法(昭和二十五年法律第二百三十九号)第二条第一項に規定する商品のうち、法令の規定に基づく当該商品の価格の安定に関する措置の有無その他当該商品の価格形成及び需給の状況を勘案し、当該商品に係る市場デリバティブ取引により当該商品の適切な価格形成が阻害されるおそれがなく、かつ、取引所金融商品市場において当該商品に係る市場デリバティブ取引が行われることが国民経済上有益であるものとして政令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。)

(iii)-3commodities (meaning commodities prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Commodity Derivatives Transaction Act (Act No. 239 of 1950) specified by Cabinet Order as those which are deemed unlikely to be adversely affected, in terms of proper price formation, by the market derivatives transactions involving those commodities and are deemed conducive to the national economy if the market derivatives transactions involving those commodities are conducted in a financial instruments exchange market, by taking into consideration the existence or non-existence of measures for the stabilization of the price of those commodities in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations and other conditions of price formation and supply and demand of those commodities; the same applies hereinafter);

四前各号に掲げるもののほか、同一の種類のものが多数存在し、価格の変動が著しい資産であつて、当該資産に係るデリバティブ取引(デリバティブ取引に類似する取引を含む。)について投資者の保護を確保することが必要と認められるものとして政令で定めるもの(商品先物取引法第二条第一項に規定する商品を除く。)

(iv)assets other than what is set forth in each of the preceding items, of which there are many of the same kind, which have substantial price volatility, and which are specified by Cabinet Order as assets for with which the necessity to secure the protection of investors with regard to derivatives transactions (including similar transactions) is found (excluding commodities as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Commodity Derivatives Transaction Act); and

五第一号、第二号若しくは第三号の二に掲げるもの又は前号に掲げるもののうち内閣府令で定めるものについて、金融商品取引所が、市場デリバティブ取引を円滑化するため、利率、償還期限その他の条件を標準化して設定した標準物

(v)standardized instruments used by a financial instruments exchange for the purpose of facilitating market derivatives transactions by standardizing interest rates, the maturity period, or other conditions of financial Instruments set forth in item (i), item (ii), or item (iii)-2 or the preceding item and specified by Cabinet Office Order.

25この法律において「金融指標」とは、次に掲げるものをいう。

(25)The term "financial index" as used in this Act means the following:

一金融商品の価格又は金融商品(前項第三号及び第三号の三に掲げるものを除く。)の利率等

(i)the price of a financial instrument or the interest rate, etc. of a financial instrument (excluding those specified in item (iii) and item (iii)-3 of the preceding paragraph);

二気象庁その他の者が発表する気象の観測の成果に係る数値

(ii)the numerical values associated with the results of meteorological observations published by the meteorological agency and others;

三その変動に影響を及ぼすことが不可能若しくは著しく困難であつて、事業者の事業活動に重大な影響を与える指標(前号に掲げるものを除く。)又は社会経済の状況に関する統計の数値であつて、これらの指標又は数値に係るデリバティブ取引(デリバティブ取引に類似する取引を含む。)について投資者の保護を確保することが必要と認められるものとして政令で定めるもの(商品先物取引法第二条第二項に規定する商品指数であつて、商品以外の同条第一項に規定する商品の価格に基づいて算出されたものを除く。)

(iii)among indexes on whose fluctuation it is impossible or extremely difficult for a person to exert an influence and which may have material impact on the business activities of business firms (excluding indicators provided for in the preceding item) and statistical values associated with social or economic conditions, the indicators and values specified by Cabinet Order as those which are found to be necessary to ensure protection for investors with regard to derivatives transactions (or other similar transactions) related to them (excluding commodity indices as defined in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Commodity Derivatives Transaction Act which are calculated based on the prices of commodities defined in paragraph (1) of that Article other than commodities); and

四前三号に掲げるものに基づいて算出した数値

(iv)numerical values calculated based on anything provided for in the preceding three items.

26この法律において「外国金融商品取引所」とは、第百五十五条第一項の規定により内閣総理大臣の認可を受けた者をいう。

(26)The term "foreign financial instruments exchange" as used in this Act means a person that has obtained the authorization of the Prime Minister pursuant to Article 155, paragraph (1).

27この法律において「有価証券等清算取次ぎ」とは、金融商品取引業者又は登録金融機関が金融商品取引清算機関又は外国金融商品取引清算機関の業務方法書の定めるところにより顧客の委託を受けてその計算において行う対象取引(次項に規定する「対象取引」をいう。以下この項において同じ。)であつて、対象取引に基づく債務を当該金融商品取引清算機関(当該金融商品取引清算機関が第百五十六条の二十の十六第一項に規定する連携金融商品債務引受業務を行う場合には、同項に規定する連携清算機関等を含む。)又は外国金融商品取引清算機関に負担させることを条件とし、かつ、次に掲げる要件のいずれかに該当するものをいう。

(27)The term "brokerage for clearing of securities, etc." as used in this Act means a subject transaction (meaning a "subject transaction" as defined in the following paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) that is conducted by a financial instruments business operator or registered financial institution under entrustment from a customer and for the account of the customer in accordance with the business rules of the financial instruments clearing organization or foreign financial instruments clearing organization, which is conducted on the condition that the obligation that arises from the subject transaction will be assumed by the financial instruments clearing organization (if such financial instruments clearing organization performs collaborative financial instruments obligation assumption services prescribed in Article 156-20-16, paragraph (1), this includes the collaborating clearing organization, etc. set forth in that paragraph) or the foreign financial instruments clearing organization, and which satisfies either of the following requirements:

一当該顧客が当該金融商品取引業者又は登録金融機関を代理して成立させるものであること。

(i)the subject transaction is closed by the customer on behalf of the financial instruments business operator or registered financial institution; or

二当該顧客がその委託に際しあらかじめ当該対象取引に係る相手方その他内閣府令で定める事項を特定するものであること。

(ii)the customer specifies the other party to the subject transaction and other particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order in advance, at the time of the entrustment.

28この法律において「金融商品債務引受業」とは、金融商品取引業者、登録金融機関又は証券金融会社(以下この項において「金融商品債務引受業対象業者」という。)を相手方として、金融商品債務引受業対象業者が行う対象取引(有価証券の売買若しくはデリバティブ取引(取引の状況及び我が国の資本市場に与える影響その他の事情を勘案し、公益又は投資者保護のため支障を生ずることがないと認められるものとして政令で定める取引を除く。)又はこれらに付随し、若しくは関連する取引としてその他政令で定める取引をいう。)に基づく債務を、引受け、更改その他の方法により負担することを業として行うことをいう。

(28)The term "financial instruments obligation assumption services" as used in this Act means taking over, novating, or in any other way bearing, on a regular basis, the obligations of a financial instruments business operator, registered financial institution, or securities finance company (hereinafter referred to as a "business counterparty to financial instruments obligation assumption services" in this paragraph) which arise from subject transactions (meaning the purchase and sale of securities, derivatives transactions (except those that are specified by Cabinet Order as transactions which are, taking into account of the status of the transactions, the impact exerted on Japan's capital market, and other circumstances, found not to compromise the public interest or the protection of investors), or transactions specified by Cabinet Order as incidental or related to them) conducted by, a business counterparty to financial instruments obligation assumption services.

29この法律において「金融商品取引清算機関」とは、第百五十六条の二又は第百五十六条の十九第一項の規定により内閣総理大臣の免許又は承認を受けて金融商品債務引受業を行う者をいい、「外国金融商品取引清算機関」とは、第百五十六条の二十の二の規定により内閣総理大臣の免許を受けて金融商品債務引受業を行う者をいう。

(29)The term "financial instruments clearing organization" as used in this Act means a person that engages in financial instruments obligation assumption services after being licensed by the Prime Minister or obtaining the approval of the Prime Minister pursuant to Article 156-2 or Article 156-19, paragraph (1), and the term "foreign financial instruments clearing organization" as used in this Act means a person that engages in financial instruments obligation assumption service after being licensed by the Prime Minister pursuant to Article 156-20-2.

30この法律において「証券金融会社」とは、第百五十六条の二十四の規定により内閣総理大臣の免許を受けた者をいう。

(30)The term "securities finance company" as used in this Act means a person that has been licensed by the Prime Minister pursuant to Article 156-24.

31この法律において「特定投資家」とは、次に掲げる者をいう。

(31)The term "professional investor" as used in this Act means the following:

一適格機関投資家

(i)qualified institutional investors;

二国

(ii)the State;

三日本銀行

(iii)the Bank of Japan; and

四前三号に掲げるもののほか、第七十九条の二十一に規定する投資者保護基金その他の内閣府令で定める法人

(iv)investor protection funds prescribed in Article 79-21 and other corporations specified by Cabinet Office Order beyond those set forth in the preceding three items.

32この法律において「特定取引所金融商品市場」とは、第百十七条の二第一項の規定により同項に規定する一般投資家等買付けをすることが禁止されている取引所金融商品市場をいう。

(32)The term "specified financial instruments exchange market" as used in this Act means a financial instruments exchange market on which, pursuant to the provisions of Article 117-2, paragraph (1), it is prohibited to make a purchase for a general investor as defined in that paragraph.

33この法律において「特定上場有価証券」とは、特定取引所金融商品市場のみに上場されている有価証券をいう。

(33)The term "specified listed securities" as used in this Act means securities listed only on a specified financial instruments exchange market.

34この法律において「信用格付」とは、金融商品又は法人(これに類するものとして内閣府令で定めるものを含む。)の信用状態に関する評価(以下この項において「信用評価」という。)の結果について、記号又は数字(これらに類するものとして内閣府令で定めるものを含む。)を用いて表示した等級(主として信用評価以外の事項を勘案して定められる等級として内閣府令で定めるものを除く。)をいう。

(34)The term "credit rating" as used in this Act means a grade which indicates, through symbols or figures (including anything specified by Cabinet Office Order as being similar thereto), the results of an assessment of the credit status of a financial instrument or a corporation (including anything specified by Cabinet Office Order as being similar thereto) (such assessment is hereinafter referred to as "creditworthiness" in this paragraph) (such grade excludes grades specified by Cabinet Office Order as being determined mainly in consideration of any particular other than creditworthiness).

35この法律において「信用格付業」とは、信用格付を付与し、かつ、提供し又は閲覧に供する行為(行為の相手方の範囲その他行為の態様に照らして投資者の保護に欠けるおそれが少ないと認められるものとして内閣府令で定めるものを除く。)を業として行うことをいう。

(35)The term "credit rating services" as used in this Act means engagement in the act of determining credit ratings and providing them or making them available for inspection (excluding acts specified by Cabinet Office Order as those that are found to have little likelihood of resulting in insufficient investor protection, in light of the scope of the other party to the act and any other circumstances) on a regular basis.

36この法律において「信用格付業者」とは、第六十六条の二十七の規定により内閣総理大臣の登録を受けた者をいう。

(36)The term "credit rating agency" as used in this Act means a person registered by the Prime Minister pursuant to Article 66-27.

37この法律において「商品市場開設金融商品取引所」とは、第八十七条の二第一項ただし書の認可を受けて商品先物取引(商品先物取引法第二条第三項に規定する先物取引をいう。以下同じ。)をするために必要な市場を開設する株式会社金融商品取引所をいう。

(37)The term "financial instruments exchange engaged in the operation of a commodity market" as used in this Act means an incorporated financial instruments exchange that operates the necessary market for effecting commodity futures transactions (meaning futures transactions as defined in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Commodity Derivatives Transaction Act; the same applies hereinafter), with the authorization referred to in the proviso to Article 87-2, paragraph (1).

38この法律において「商品取引所」とは、会員商品取引所(商品先物取引法第二条第五項に規定する会員商品取引所をいう。)及び株式会社商品取引所(同条第六項に規定する株式会社商品取引所をいい、株式会社金融商品取引所に関する規制と同等の水準にあると認められる規制を受ける者として政令で定める者に限る。)をいう。

(38)The term "commodity exchange" as used in this Act means an incorporated association-operated commodity exchange operated as an (meaning an incorporated association–operated commodity exchange as defined in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Commodity Derivatives Transaction Act) or an incorporated commodity exchange (meaning a stock company-operated commodity exchange as prescribed in paragraph (6) of that Article and limited to those specified by Cabinet Order as being subject to restrictions that are found to be of the same level as restrictions on an incorporated financial instruments exchange).

39この法律において「商品取引所持株会社」とは、商品先物取引法第二条第十一項に規定する商品取引所持株会社(金融商品取引所持株会社に関する規制と同等の水準にあると認められる規制を受ける者として政令で定める者に限る。)をいう。

(39)The term "commodity exchange holding company" as used in this Act means a commodity exchange holding company as defined in Article 2, paragraph (11) of the Commodity Derivatives Transaction Act (limited to those specified by Cabinet Order as being subject to restrictions that are found to be of the same level as restrictions on a financial instruments exchange holding company).

40この法律において「特定金融指標」とは、金融指標であつて、当該金融指標に係るデリバティブ取引又は有価証券の取引の態様に照らして、その信頼性が低下することにより、我が国の資本市場に重大な影響を及ぼすおそれがあるものとして内閣総理大臣が定めるものをいう。

(40)The term "specified financial index" as used in this Act means a financial index specified by the Prime Minister as a financial index for which the decrease in its credibility is likely to have a material impact on Japan's capital market, in light of the type of derivatives transactions or securities trading related to that financial index.

41この法律において「高速取引行為」とは、次に掲げる行為であつて、当該行為を行うことについての判断が電子情報処理組織により自動的に行われ、かつ、当該判断に基づく当該有価証券の売買又は市場デリバティブ取引を行うために必要な情報の金融商品取引所その他の内閣府令で定める者に対する伝達が、情報通信の技術を利用する方法であつて、当該伝達に通常要する時間を短縮するための方法として内閣府令で定める方法を用いて行われるもの(その内容等を勘案し、投資者の保護のため支障を生ずることがないと認められるものとして政令で定めるものを除く。)をいう。

(41)The term "high-speed trading" as used in this Act means any of the following acts for which the determination on performance of the act is automatically made by an electronic data processing system, and the provision of information necessary for conducting the purchase and sale of securities or a market derivatives transaction based on that determination to a financial instruments exchange or any other person specified by Cabinet Office Order is made by means of information and communications technology, which is specified by Cabinet Office Order as a means of shortening the time normally required for the provision of information (excluding acts specified by Cabinet Order as those which, in consideration of their content and other factors, are found not to compromise the protection of investors):

一有価証券の売買又は市場デリバティブ取引

(i)the purchase and sale of securities or a market derivatives transaction;

二前号に掲げる行為の委託

(ii)entrustment of the act set forth in the preceding item; and

三前号に掲げるもののほか、第一号に掲げる行為に係る行為であつて、前二号に掲げる行為に準ずるものとして政令で定めるもの

(iii)beyond what is set forth in the preceding item, an act performed in connection with the act set forth in item (i), which is specified by Cabinet Order as an act equivalent to the acts set forth in the preceding two items.

42この法律において「高速取引行為者」とは、第六十六条の五十の規定により内閣総理大臣の登録を受けた者をいう。

(42)The term "high-speed trader" as used in this Act means a person registered by the Prime Minister pursuant to Article 66-50.