# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第六十六条の四十一 (Article 66-41) - 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: 第六十六条の四十一 (Article 66-41)（業務改善命令） — address `art-66-41` - 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-66-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-41 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の四十一（業務改善命令） — (Business Improvement Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66-41 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-41 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、信用格付業者の業務の運営の状況に関し、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、その必要の限度において、当該信用格付業者に対し、業務の方法の変更その他業務の運営の状況の改善に必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-66-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-41/par-1 If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors as concerns the state of a credit rating agency's business operations, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, order the credit rating agency to change its business methods or order it to take other measures that are necessary for improving the state of its business operations. 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 第六十六条の四十九第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-49/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二百八条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-208/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-208/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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