# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百八十条 (Article 180) - 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: 第百八十条 (Article 180)（審判手続） — address `art-180` - 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-180 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百八十条（審判手続） — (Trial Procedures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-180 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180 **第一項** 審判手続（審判手続開始の決定及び第百八十五条の七第十九項に規定する決定を除く。）は、三人の審判官をもつて構成する合議体が行う。ただし、簡易な事件については、一人の審判官が行う。 art-180/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180/par-1 Trial procedures (other than the decision to commence trial procedures and a decision under Article 185-7, paragraph (19)) are conducted by a panel composed of three trial examiners; provided, however, that in a simple case, the procedures are conducted by a single trial examiner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 内閣総理大臣は、各審判事件について、前項本文の合議体を構成する審判官又は同項ただし書の一人の審判官を指定しなければならない。 art-180/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180/par-2 For each trial case, the Prime Minister must designate the trial examiners composing the panel referred to in the main clause of the preceding paragraph, or the single trial examiner referred to in the proviso to that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 内閣総理大臣は、合議体に審判手続を行わせることとしたときは、前項の規定により指定した審判官のうち一人を審判長として指定しなければならない。 art-180/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180/par-3 If the Prime Minister decides to have a panel conduct trial procedures, the Prime Minister must designate one chief trial examiner from among the trial examiners designated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 内閣総理大臣は、当該事件について調査に関与したことのある者を審判官として指定することはできない。 art-180/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180/par-4 The Prime Minister may not designate a person that has participated in the investigation of the case as a trial examiner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-180/par-1: 第百八十五条の七第十九項 → 金融商品取引法 第百八十五条の七第十九項 (Article 185-7, paragraph (19)), art-185-7/par-19 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-185-7/par-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-185-7/par-19 - art-180/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百八十条第一項 (Article 180, paragraph (1)), art-180/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180/par-1 - art-180/par-3: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第百八十条第二項 (Article 180, paragraph (2)), art-180/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百八十条第二項（審判手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百八十条第三項（審判手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-180/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-180/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百八十五条の十第一項（民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-185-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-185-10/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