Article 26Collection of Reports and Inspection of a Person Submitting a Securities Registration Statement
第二十六条（届出者等に対する報告の徴取及び検査）
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 person that has submitted public documents, a person that is found to be required to submit such documents, an underwriter of securities, or any other concerned party or witnesses, to submit reports or materials that should serve as a reference, and may have the relevant officials inspect that person's books, documents, and any other articles.
When the Prime Minister finds it necessary with regard to the order for report or submission of materials or the inspection under the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister may make inquiries to public offices or public or private organizations and request them to report necessary matters.
内閣総理大臣は、前項の規定による報告若しくは資料の提出の命令又は検査に関して必要があると認めるときは、公務所又は公私の団体に照会して必要な事項の報告を求めることができる。
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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 person that has submitted public documents…
内閣総理大臣は、公益又は投資者保護のため必要かつ適当であると認めるときは、縦覧書類を提出した者若しくは提出すべきであると認められる者若しくは有価証券の引受人その他の関係者若しくは参考人に対し参考となるべき報告若しくは資料の提出を命じ、又は当該職員をしてその者の帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。
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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
underwriter
「引受人」
In this Act other than Chapter V, a person that, in a public offering or secondary distribution of securities, a private placement, or a solicitation for selling, etc. made only to professional investors, acquires all or part of the securities in order to have others acquire them, contracts to acquire whatever part no one else acquires, or, for share option certificates, contracts to acquire and exercise the options left unexercised.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)
public documentmachine translation
「縦覧書類」
In Article 25 and Article 26, paragraph (1), the documents listed in Article 25, paragraph (1) — securities registration statements, shelf registration statements and supplements, annual securities reports, confirmation letters, internal control reports, semiannual securities reports, extraordinary reports, share buyback status reports and parent company, etc. status reports, with their attachments and amendments — that the Prime Minister must make available for public inspection, for five years (one year for share buyback status reports).
Short name set inArticle 25, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article and in Article 26, paragraph (1)
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.