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 the subsidiary company, etc. of a special financial instruments business operator to submit reports or materials that should serve as a reference in connection with the assets of the special financial instruments business operator, and may have the relevant officials inspect the state of the business or assets, or the books, documents, and any other articles, of such a subsidiary company, etc. (but only as is necessary in connection with the property of the special financial instruments business operator).
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、特別金融商品取引業者の子会社等に対し当該特別金融商品取引業者の財産に関し参考となるべき報告若しくは資料の提出を命じ、又は当該職員に当該子会社等の業務若しくは財産の状況若しくは帳簿書類その他の物件の検査（当該特別金融商品取引業者の財産に関し必要な検査に限る。）をさせることができる。
The term "subsidiary company, etc." as used in the preceding paragraph means a second company, etc. with a parent company, etc. (meaning a company, etc. (meaning a company, partnership, or other equivalent business entity, including anything that is equivalent to these in a foreign country; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) specified by Cabinet Office Order as a first company, etc. that controls the mechanism that decides the financial and operational or business policies of a second company, etc. (meaning the shareholders or other equivalent body; hereinafter referred to as the "decision-making body" in this paragraph)) that controls its decision-making body. In such a case, a second company, etc. whose decision-making body is controlled by a parent company, etc. and its subsidiary company, etc. or whose decision-making body is controlled by the subsidiary company, etc. of such a parent company, etc. is deemed to be a subsidiary company, etc. of that parent company, etc.
前項の「子会社等」とは、親会社等（他の会社等（会社、組合その他これらに準ずる事業体をいい、外国におけるこれらに相当するものを含む。以下この項において同じ。）の財務及び営業又は事業の方針を決定する機関（株主総会その他これに準ずる機関をいう。以下この項において「意思決定機関」という。）を支配している会社等として内閣府令で定めるものをいう。）によりその意思決定機関を支配されている他の会社等をいう。この場合において、親会社等及び子会社等又は子会社等が他の会社等の意思決定機関を支配している場合における当該他の会社等は、その親会社等の子会社等とみなす。
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(Collection 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 the subsidiary company…
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、特別金融商品取引業者の子会社等に対し当該特別金融商品取引業者の財産に関し参考となるべき報告若しくは資料の提出を命じ…
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The term "subsidiary company, etc." as used in the preceding paragraph means a second company, etc. with a parent company, etc.…
前項の「子会社等」とは、親会社等（他の会社等（会社、組合その他これらに準ずる事業体をいい、外国におけるこれらに相当するものを含む。以下この項において同じ。）の財務及び営業又は事業の方針を決定する機関（株主総会その他これに準ずる機関をいう。以下この項において「意思決定機関」という。）を支配している会社等として内閣府令で…
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「特別金融商品取引業者」
A financial instruments business operator engaged in type-I financial instruments business (not a foreign corporation) that has notified the Prime Minister under Article 57-2, paragraph (1) that its total assets exceed the threshold a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, other than one whose total assets have since stayed at or below that threshold for two years.
Defined inArticle 57-2, paragraph (2)· applies only in this section
company, etc.machine translation
「会社等」
In Article 57-10, paragraph (2), a company, a partnership (組合) or another comparable business entity, including their foreign equivalents.
Defined inArticle 57-10, paragraph (2)· applies only in this paragraph
subsidiary company, etc.
「子会社等」
Another company, partnership or similar business entity, including a foreign one, whose decision-making body — its shareholders' meeting or equivalent — is controlled by a parent company, etc. (親会社等), that is, a company or other entity a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies as controlling it; an entity controlled by the parent together with its subsidiary companies, etc., or by those alone, is treated as the parent's subsidiary company, etc. too.
Defined inArticle 57-10, paragraph (2)
decision-making body
「意思決定機関」
In Article 57-10, paragraph (2), the body that decides the financial and operational or business policies of a company, partnership or similar business entity, Japanese or foreign — its shareholders' meeting (株主総会) or an equivalent body.
Short name set inArticle 57-10, paragraph (2)· applies only in this paragraph
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.
shareholders meeting
株主総会
The meeting of a stock company's shareholders, and the body through which they decide the company's basic matters. It elects the directors and company auditors (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)) and changes the articles of incorporation (Article 466). In a company without a board of directors it may decide any matter about the company; in one with a board, only what the Act or the articles of incorporation leave to it (Article 295). An annual shareholders meeting must be called after the end of every business year, and another may be called whenever needed (Article 296). A resolution normally passes by a majority of the votes present, with holders of a majority of the votes entitled to vote attending (Article 309, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 295, 296, 309, 329, 466 as a reference.