An official of the securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission" in this Chapter) (hereinafter such an official is referred to as a "Commission official" in this Chapter) may, if this is necessary for investigating a criminal case (meaning a case relating to a crime referred to in Chapter VIII that is specified by Cabinet Order as a crime that is detrimental to the fairness of the purchase and sale or other transactions of securities or of derivatives transactions, etc., or as any other crime that is necessary and appropriate to be made subject to investigation by Commission officials for the public interest or investor protection; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter), request a suspect or witness (hereinafter referred to as a "suspect or witness in a criminal case" in this paragraph and paragraph (1) of the following Article) to appear, ask questions to a suspect or witness in a criminal case, inspect articles in the possession of or abandoned by a suspect or witness in a criminal case, or retain articles that a suspect or witness in a criminal case voluntarily submits or abandons.
証券取引等監視委員会（以下この章において「委員会」という。）の職員（以下この章において「委員会職員」という。）は、犯則事件（第八章の罪のうち、有価証券の売買その他の取引又はデリバティブ取引等の公正を害するものその他の委員会職員の調査の対象とすることが公益又は投資者保護のため必要かつ適当なものとして政令で定めるものに係る事件をいう。以下この章において同じ。）を調査するため必要があるときは、犯則嫌疑者若しくは参考人（以下この項及び次条第一項において「犯則嫌疑者等」という。）に対して出頭を求め、犯則嫌疑者等に対して質問し、犯則嫌疑者等が所持し若しくは置き去つた物件を検査し、又は犯則嫌疑者等が任意に提出し、若しくは置き去つた物件を領置することができる。
The Commission official may inquire with public agencies, or public or private organizations, and request them to report necessary particulars for the investigation of criminal cases.
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(Questioning, Examination, and Retention)
An official of the securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission" in this Chapter)…
証券取引等監視委員会（以下この章において「委員会」という。）の職員（以下この章において「委員会職員」という。）は、犯則事件（第八章の罪のうち、有価証券の売買その他の取引又はデリバティブ取引等の公正を害するものその他の委員会職員の調査の対象とすることが公益又は投資者保護のため必要かつ適当なものとして政令で定めるものに係…
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If it is necessary for investigating a criminal case, a Commission official may conduct an inspection; search the body of a suspect or witness in a criminal case…
委員会職員は、犯則事件を調査するため必要があるときは、委員会の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所又は簡易裁判所の裁判官があらかじめ発する許可状により、臨検、犯則嫌疑者等の身体、物件若しくは住居その他の場所の捜索…
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「有価証券」
Securities as this Act defines them: the instruments listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), among them national government and local government bonds, corporate bonds, share certificates and share option certificates, preferred equity investment certificates, beneficiary certificates of investment trusts and other trusts, investment securities, certain promissory notes, mortgage securities, option certificates and depositary receipts, foreign instruments of the same nature, and other instruments a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
derivatives transactions, etc.machine translation
「デリバティブ取引等」
In Article 33, the acts its paragraph (3) lists: market derivatives transactions (市場デリバティブ取引) and the intermediation, brokerage or agency in them (or in entrusting them) listed in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (ii) and (iii); over-the-counter derivatives transactions, etc. (店頭デリバティブ取引等); and foreign market derivatives transactions (外国市場デリバティブ取引) together with the same acts in relation to them.
Short name set inArticle 33, paragraph (3)
Commission
「委員会」
The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (証券取引等監視委員会), whose officials investigate criminal cases (犯則事件) under Article 210 and the articles that follow it.
Short name set inArticle 210, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
Commission officialmachine translation
「委員会職員」
An official of the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (証券取引等監視委員会), who may investigate criminal cases (犯則事件) under Article 210 and the articles that follow it.
Short name set inArticle 210, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
criminal casemachine translation
「犯則事件」
In Chapter IX, a case concerning a crime under Chapter VIII that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as one the officials of the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (証券取引等監視委員会) should investigate for the public interest or investor protection, such as a crime that harms the fairness of the purchase and sale or other transactions of securities, or of derivatives transactions, etc.
Defined inArticle 210, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
suspect or witness in a criminal casemachine translation
「犯則嫌疑者等」
In Article 210, paragraph (1) and Article 211, paragraph (1), a person suspected in a criminal case (犯則事件) or a witness (参考人), whom officials of the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (証券取引等監視委員会) may ask to appear and may question, and whose belongings they may inspect or, when handed over or left behind, retain.
Short name set inArticle 210, paragraph (1)· applies only in this paragraph and in Article 211, paragraph (1)