# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二百十条 (Article 210) - 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: 第二百十条 (Article 210)（質問、検査又は領置等） — address `art-210` - 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-210 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-210 - 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. --- ### 第二百十条（質問、検査又は領置等） — (Questioning, Examination, and Retention) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-210 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-210 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-210 **第一項** 証券取引等監視委員会（以下この章において「委員会」という。）の職員（以下この章において「委員会職員」という。）は、犯則事件（第八章の罪のうち、有価証券の売買その他の取引又はデリバティブ取引等の公正を害するものその他の委員会職員の調査の対象とすることが公益又は投資者保護のため必要かつ適当なものとして政令で定めるものに係る事件をいう。以下この章において同じ。）を調査するため必要があるときは、犯則嫌疑者若しくは参考人（以下この項及び次条第一項において「犯則嫌疑者等」という。）に対して出頭を求め、犯則嫌疑者等に対して質問し、犯則嫌疑者等が所持し若しくは置き去つた物件を検査し、又は犯則嫌疑者等が任意に提出し、若しくは置き去つた物件を領置することができる。 art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-210/par-1 An official of the securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission" in this Chapter) (hereinafter such an official is referred to as a "Commission official" in this Chapter) may, if this is necessary for investigating a criminal case (meaning a case relating to a crime referred to in Chapter VIII that is specified by Cabinet Order as a crime that is detrimental to the fairness of the purchase and sale or other transactions of securities or of derivatives transactions, etc., or as any other crime that is necessary and appropriate to be made subject to investigation by Commission officials for the public interest or investor protection; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter), request a suspect or witness (hereinafter referred to as a "suspect or witness in a criminal case" in this paragraph and paragraph (1) of the following Article) to appear, ask questions to a suspect or witness in a criminal case, inspect articles in the possession of or abandoned by a suspect or witness in a criminal case, or retain articles that a suspect or witness in a criminal case voluntarily submits or abandons. machine translation, not official **第二項** 委員会職員は、犯則事件の調査について、官公署又は公私の団体に照会して必要な事項の報告を求めることができる。 art-210/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-210/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-210/par-2 The Commission official may inquire with public agencies, or public or private organizations, and request them to report necessary particulars for the investigation of criminal cases. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-210/par-1: この項 → 金融商品取引法 第二百十条第一項 (Article 210, paragraph (1)), art-210/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-210/par-1 - art-210/par-1: 次条第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第二百十一条第一項 (Article 211, paragraph (1)), art-211/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-211/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-211/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二百十条第一項（質問、検査又は領置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-210/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二百二十四条第二項（財務局等職員の犯則調査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-224/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-224/par-2 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T033157-027, translated 2026-10-23 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22