Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law
Copyright Roderick Seeman
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter I General Provisions (Articles 1-9)
Chapter II Authorized Foreign Exchange Banks and Money Exchangers (Articles 10-15)
Chapter III Payments and Receipt of Payments (Articles 16-19)
Chapter IV Capital Transactions, etc. (Articles 20-25)
Chapter V Direct Domestic Investments, etc. (Articles 26-46)
Chapter VI Foreign Trade (Articles 47-55)
Chapter VI-2 Committee on Foreign Exchange and Other Transaction (Articles 55-2 and 55-3)
Chapter VII Relationship with Administrative Procedure Law (Article 55)
Chapter VII-2 Demurral (Articles 56-64)
Chapter VIII Miscellaneous Provisions (Articles 65-69-4)
Chapter IX Penal Provisions (Articles 70-73)
Chapter I General Provisions (Articles 1-9)
Article 2 through Article 4 Deleted.
Article 5 (Scope of Application)
Article 7 (Foreign exchange rates)
Chapter II Authorized Foreign Exchange Banks and Money Exchangers (Articles 10-15)
Article 10 (Authorization, etc., for dealing in foreign exchange business)
Article 11 (Correspondent arrangements)
Article 11-2 (Foreign exchange position, etc., of the authorized foreign exchange banks)
Chapter III Payments and Receipt of Payments (Articles 16-19)
Article 16 (Payments and receipt of payments)
Article 17 (Methods of payments for external transactions)
Chapter IV Capital Transactions, etc. (Articles 20-25)
Article 20 (Capital transactions)
Article 21 (Capital transactions requiring license from the Minister of Finance)
Chapter V Direct Domestic Investments, etc. (Articles 26-46)
Article 26 (Notice, etc., of direct domestic investments, etc.)
Article 27-2 (Parties regarded as foreign investors)
Article 28 (Transfers of pre-emptive rights)
Article 29 (Notice, etc., of conclusion, etc., of agreements for importation of technology)
Article 31. Exclusions from the Application of the Previous two Articles)
Article 32 through Article 46 Deleted.
Chapter VI Foreign Trade (Articles 47-55)
Article 47 (Principles for export)
Article 48 (Licenses of Export)
Article 49 (Attestation for settlement of export proceeds)
Article 50 Deleted
Article 51 (Emergency suspension of shipments)
Article 52 (Authorization of imports)
Article 54 (Supervision over the superintendents of custom houses)
Chapter VI-2 (Committee on Foreign Exchange and Other Transaction (Articles 55-2 and 55-3)
Chapter VII Relationship with Administrative Law (Article 55)
Article 55-4. Exclusion from Application of Administrative Procedure Law
Chapter VII-2 Demurral (Articles 56-64)
Article 56 (Hearings for demurral procedures)
Article 57 (Relationship between demurral procedures and lawsuits)
Article 58 through Article 64 Deleted.
Chapter VIII Miscellaneous Provisions (Articles 65 to 69-4)
Article 65 (Powers of Fair Trade Commission)
Article 66 (Act of Government Agency)
Article 67 (Obligation to submit report)
Article 68 (On-Location Inspections)
Article 68-2. (Delegation of Authority)
Article 69 (Partial delegation of duties)
Article 69-2 (Statistics on external claims and debts, and the balance of international payments)
Chapter IX Penal Provisions (Articles 69-6 to 73)