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 an authorized association, an issuer of over-the-counter traded securities or tradable securities, or the person that an authorized association has entrusted with its 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 authorized association, and may have the relevant officials inspect the state of the business or assets, or the books, documents, and any other articles, of an authorized association or the person that an authorized association has entrusted with its business (but may only have the relevant officials inspect the person that an authorized association has entrusted with its business as is necessary in connection with the business or assets of the authorized association).
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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 an authorized association…
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、認可協会、店頭売買有価証券若しくは取扱有価証券の発行者又は当該認可協会から業務の委託を受けた者(その者から委託(二以上の段階にわたる委託を含む。)を受けた者を含む。以下この条において同じ。)に対し当該認可協会の業務若しくは財産に関し参考となるべ…
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「発行者」
A person who issues or intends to issue securities, or for securities a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies, the person it specifies; for rights treated as securities under Article 2, paragraph (2), the person a Cabinet Office Order specifies for each kind of right is treated as issuing them, at the time it specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)
over-the-counter traded securities
「店頭売買有価証券」
Securities registered under Article 67-11, paragraph (1) by an authorized financial instruments firms association (認可金融商品取引業協会) for trading on the over-the-counter securities market it opens.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (8), item (x), (c)
authorized association
「認可協会」
In Chapter IV, short for authorized financial instruments firms association (認可金融商品取引業協会): an association established under Subsection 1 of Section 1 of that Chapter, whose purpose is to make the trading of securities and derivatives transactions, etc. fair and smooth and to contribute to the sound development of financial instruments business and to investor protection.
Short name set inArticle 67, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
tradable securities
「取扱有価証券」
Share certificates, bonds with share options (新株予約権付社債券) and other securities a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies, whose solicitation for purchase and sale an authorized association (認可協会) does not forbid in its rules, other than securities listed on a financial instruments exchange, over-the-counter traded securities (店頭売買有価証券) and securities the Prime Minister specifies as restricted in circulation under those rules.
Defined inArticle 67-18, paragraph (1), item (iv)
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.