# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第六十六条の四十四 (Article 66-44) - 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: 第六十六条の四十四 (Article 66-44)（登録の抹消） — address `art-66-44` - 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-66-44 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-44 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の四十四（登録の抹消） — (Deletion of Registrations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66-44 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-44 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、信用格付業者から第六十六条の二十七の登録の抹消の申請があつたとき、第六十六条の四十第二項の規定により第六十六条の二十七の登録がその効力を失つたとき、又は第六十六条の四十二第一項若しくは第三項の規定により第六十六条の二十七の登録を取り消したときは、当該登録を抹消しなければならない。 art-66-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-44/par-1 When an application is filed by a Credit Rating Agency for the deletion of an Article 66-27 registration, or if an Article 66-27 registration loses its validity pursuant to the provisions of Article 66-40, paragraph (2) or the Prime Minister rescinds an Article 66-27 registration pursuant to the provisions of Article 66-42, paragraph (1) or (3), the Prime Minister must delete that registration. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66-44/par-1: 第六十六条の二十七 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の二十七 (Article 66-27), art-66-27 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-27 - art-66-44/par-1: 第六十六条の四十第二項 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十第二項 (Article 66-40, paragraph (2)), art-66-40/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-40/par-2 - art-66-44/par-1: 第六十六条の四十二第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十二第一項 (Article 66-42, paragraph (1)), art-66-42/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-42/par-1 - art-66-44/par-1: 第三項 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十二第三項 (Article 66-42, paragraph (3)), art-66-42/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-42/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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 --- ## 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