Article 151Collection of Reports and Inspections

When the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors, the Prime Minister may order a financial instruments exchange, its subsidiary company, its commodity trading participant (meaning a person that has been granted the qualification for trading under the provisions of Article 112, paragraph (2) or Article 113, paragraph (2); hereinafter the same applies),an issuer of securities listed on a financial instruments exchange, or the person that a financial instruments exchange has entrusted with it business (including a person that has received entrustment from the person (including entrustment at two or more degrees of separation from the original entrustment); hereinafter the same applies in this Article), to submit reports or materials that should serve as a reference with regard to the business or assets of the financial instruments exchange or its subsidiary company, or the relevant commodity trading participant (in the case of the commodity trading participant, limited to the business related to its commodity-related market derivatives transactions) or may have their officials inspect the state of the business (in the case of the relevant commodity trading participant, limited to the business related to its commodity-related market derivatives transactions) or assets, or the books, documents, and any other articles, of a financial instruments exchange, its subsidiary company, the relevant commodity trading participant or the person that a financial instruments exchange has entrusted with its business (for a person that has been entrusted by the subsidiary company or the financial instruments exchange with business, limited to an inspection necessary for the business or property of the financial instruments exchange).