# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第六十六条の十六 (Article 66-16) - 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: 第六十六条の十六 (Article 66-16)（業務に関する帳簿書類） — address `art-66-16` - 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-66-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-16 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の十六（業務に関する帳簿書類） — (Books and Documents Concerning Service) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-16 **第一項** 金融商品仲介業者は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、金融商品仲介業に関する帳簿書類を作成し、これを保存しなければならない。 art-66-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-16/par-1 A financial instruments intermediary service provider must prepare and preserve books and documents for its financial instruments intermediary service pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の二十六第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-26/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の六第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-6/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-6/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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