# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の五の八 (Article 156-5-8) - 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: 第百五十六条の五の八 (Article 156-5-8)（主要株主に対する報告の徴取及び検査） — address `art-156-5-8` - 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-156-5-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-5-8 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条の五の八（主要株主に対する報告の徴取及び検査） — (Collection of Reports and Inspection of Major Shareholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-5-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-5-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-5-8 **第一項** 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、金融商品取引清算機関の主要株主（金融商品取引清算機関の保有基準割合以上の数の対象議決権の保有者であつて、第百五十六条の五の五第一項の認可を受けて設立され、又は同項若しくは同条第四項ただし書の認可を受けているものをいう。以下この節において同じ。）に対し当該金融商品取引清算機関の業務若しくは財産に関し参考となる報告若しくは資料の提出を命じ、又は当該職員に当該主要株主の書類その他の物件の検査（当該金融商品取引清算機関の業務又は財産に関し必要な検査に限る。）をさせることができる。 art-156-5-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-5-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-5-8/par-1 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 major shareholder of a financial instruments clearing organization (meaning a person that holds a number of subject voting rights that is equal to or greater than the threshold holding ratio, in a financial instruments clearing organization that has been incorporated after obtaining Article 156-5-5, paragraph (1) authorization or that has obtained the authorization referred to in that paragraph or in the proviso to paragraph (4) of that Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) to report or submit materials that should serve as a reference in connection with the business or assets of the financial instruments clearing organization, and may have the relevant officials inspect the documents and other articles of such a major shareholder (but only as is necessary in connection with the business or assets of the financial instruments clearing organization). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-156-5-8/par-1: 第百五十六条の五の五第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の五の五第一項 (Article 156-5-5, paragraph (1)), art-156-5-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-5-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-5-5/par-1 - art-156-5-8/par-1: 同条第四項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の五の五第四項 (Article 156-5-5, paragraph (4)), art-156-5-5/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-5-5/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-5-5/par-4 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第八十二条第二項第三号ハ（免許審査基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-82/par-2/item-3/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-82/par-2/item-3/sub-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の五の二第一項（資本金の額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-5-2/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の五の十一第一項（対象議決権に係る規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-5-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-5-11/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-22/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十条第一項（検査職員の証票携帯） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-190/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-190/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の七第三項（金融庁長官への権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-7/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の六第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-6/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-6/par-1/item-10 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の六第一項第十一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-6/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-6/par-1/item-11 --- ## 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