Article 15 (1) With regard to Securities of which Public Offering or Secondary Distribution is subject to the main clause of Article 4(1) or the main clause of Article 4(2), its Issuer, a person who engages in Secondary Distribution of Securities, an Underwriter (including a person who, with regard to a General Solicitation for Securities Acquired by Qualified Institutional Investor (excluding in the Case Where Disclosures Have Been Made with regard to the Securities for which the general solicitation is made), carries out any of the acts specified in the items of Article 2(6); hereinafter the same shall apply in this Chapter), a Financial Instruments Business Operator, a Registered Financial Institution, or a Financial Instruments Intermediary Service Provider shall not have another person acquire such Securities or sell such Securities to another person through Public Offering or Secondary Distribution unless the notification made under Article 4(1) or (2) comes into effect.