# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の二十九 (Article 156-29) - Law: 金融商品取引法 (Financial Instruments and Exchange Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二十五号 - English title "Financial Instruments and Exchange Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百五十六条の二十九 (Article 156-29)（業務の方法等の変更命令等） — address `art-156-29` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-29 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-29 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百五十六条の二十九（業務の方法等の変更命令等） — (Order for a Change of Business Methods) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-29 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-29 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、証券金融会社の金銭又は有価証券の貸付け（第百五十六条の二十四第一項に規定する業務に係るものに限る。）の方法又は条件について、これらが一般の経済状況にかんがみて適正を欠くに至つたと認められる場合又は取引所金融商品市場若しくは店頭売買有価証券市場に不健全な取引の傾向がある場合において、取引所金融商品市場若しくは店頭売買有価証券市場における売買を公正にし、又は有価証券の流通を円滑にするために特に必要があると認めるときは、その変更を命ずることができる。この場合においては、行政手続法第十三条第一項の規定による意見陳述のための手続の区分にかかわらず、聴聞を行わなければならない。 art-156-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-29/par-1 The Prime Minister may order a change of methods by which or conditions under which a securities finance company lends money or securities (limited to lending connected with the business prescribed in Article 156-24, paragraph (1)), if those methods or conditions are found to have become inappropriate in light of general economic conditions or the transactions on the financial instruments exchange market or over-the-counter securities market tend to be unsound, and the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly necessary for facilitating fair purchase and sales on the financial instruments exchange market or over-the-counter securities market as well as for achieving a smooth distribution of securities. In such a case, irrespective of the category of proceeding for hearing statements of opinion under Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Procedure Act, the Prime Minister must conduct a hearing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-156-29/par-1: 第百五十六条の二十四第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十四第一項 (Article 156-24, paragraph (1)), art-156-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-24/par-1 - art-156-29/par-1: 行政手続法第十三条第一項 → 行政手続法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-13/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の三十三第一項（業務改善命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-33/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の三十七第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-37/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 金融商品取引法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000025/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-22 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb), retrieved 2026-10-22 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22