Ministry of Finance Order. 

(3) Market transactions of derivatives specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (xiv) of the Act are the following: 

(i) transactions listed in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (i), and item (iv) through item (vi) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (Act No. 25 of 1948) wherein the transfer of financial instruments (meaning financial instruments prescribed in paragraph (24) of the same Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), rights pertaining to financial instruments or monetary claims (excluding those that are financial instruments and those that are rights pertaining to financial instruments; the same applies in item (i) of the following paragraph) is promised (excluding those wherein settlement of the transactions may be made only by paying or receiving the differences); 

(ii) transactions listed in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (excluding transactions pertaining to transactions equivalent to the transactions listed in item (ii) of the same paragraph which are specified by financial instruments exchanges). 

(4) Over-the-counter transactions of derivatives specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (xiv) of the Act are the following: 

(i) transactions listed in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (i), and item (v) through item (vii) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act wherein the transfer of financial instruments, rights pertaining to financial instruments or monetary claims is promised (excluding those wherein settlement of the transactions may be made only by paying or receiving the differences); 

(ii) transactions listed in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. 

(5) The transactions specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (xiv) of the Act are transactions promising the transfer of the amount of money calculated based on the difference between the numeric value, which has been agreed upon between parties in advance as the interest rate, price of a currency, price of goods or numeric value of another index, and the actual numeric value of such index at a certain time in the future, or transactions similar thereto (limited to those which may be conducted as social activities or business pursuant to the provisions of an act or an order based on an act), which are specified by Ministry of Finance Order. 

(Suspension of Transactions in Case of Emergency) 

Article 3 (1) In this Article, the meanings of the terms set forth in the following items are as prescribed respectively in those items: 

(i) financial index: Meaning a financial index prescribed in Article 2, paragraph 

