# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第六十六条の四十五 (Article 66-45) - 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: 第六十六条の四十五 (Article 66-45)（報告の徴取及び検査） — address `art-66-45` - 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-66-45 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-45 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の四十五（報告の徴取及び検査） — (Collection of Reports and Inspections) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66-45 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-45 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、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、信用格付業者、これと取引をする者、当該信用格付業者から業務の委託を受けた者（その者から委託（二以上の段階にわたる委託を含む。）を受けた者を含む。以下この項において同じ。）若しくは当該信用格付業者の関係法人（当該信用格付業者の子法人、当該信用格付業者を子法人とする法人又は当該信用格付業者を子法人とする法人の子法人（当該信用格付業者を除く。）であつて、信用格付の付与又は提供若しくは閲覧に供する行為を業として行う法人をいう。以下この項において同じ。）に対し当該信用格付業者の業務に関し参考となるべき報告若しくは資料の提出を命じ、又は当該職員に当該信用格付業者、当該信用格付業者から業務の委託を受けた者若しくは当該信用格付業者の関係法人の業務の状況若しくは書類その他の物件の検査（当該信用格付業者から業務の委託を受けた者又は当該信用格付業者の関係法人にあつては、当該信用格付業者の業務に関し必要な検査に限る。）をさせることができる。 art-66-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-45/par-1 When the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors, the Prime Minister may order a credit rating agency, a person that conducts transactions with a credit rating agency, the person that a credit rating agency has entrusted with its business (including a person that has received entrustment from the person (including entrustment at two or more degrees of separation from the original entrustment); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), or the affiliated corporation of a credit rating agency (meaning the subsidiary corporation of a credit rating agency, a corporation that has a credit rating agency as its subsidiary corporation, or the subsidiary corporation of a corporation that has a credit rating agency as its subsidiary corporation (other than the relevant credit rating agency itself), which performs the act of determining credit ratings and providing them or making them available for inspection in the course of business; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) to submit reports or materials that should serve as a reference with regard to the business of the credit rating agency, or may have the relevant officials inspect the state of business, documents, or other articles of a credit rating agency, the person that a credit rating agency has entrusted with its business, or the affiliated corporation of a credit rating agency (but may only have the relevant officials inspect the person that a credit rating agency has entrusted with its business or the affiliated corporation of a credit rating agency as is necessary in connection with the business of the credit rating agency). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の「子法人」とは、法人がその総株主等の議決権の過半数を保有する他の法人をいう。この場合において、法人及びその一若しくは二以上の子法人又は当該法人の一若しくは二以上の子法人がその総株主等の議決権の過半数を保有する他の法人は、当該法人の子法人とみなす。 art-66-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-45/par-2 The term "subsidiary corporation" as used in the preceding paragraph means a second corporation in which a first corporation holds the majority of the voting rights held by all the shareholders, etc. In such a case, a second corporation in which a first corporation and one or more of its subsidiary corporations hold the majority of the voting rights held by all the shareholders, etc., or in which one or more of a first corporation's subsidiary corporations hold the majority the voting rights held by all the shareholders, etc., is deemed to be the subsidiary corporation of that first corporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66-45/par-1: この項 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十五第一項 (Article 66-45, paragraph (1)), art-66-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-45/par-1 - art-66-45/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十五第一項 (Article 66-45, paragraph (1)), art-66-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-45/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十五第一項（報告の徴取及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-45/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十五第二項（報告の徴取及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-45/par-2 - 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 第百九十条第一項（検査職員の証票携帯） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-190/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-190/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の七第二項第三号の二（金融庁長官への権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-7/par-2/item-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-7/par-2/item-3-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の七第三項（金融庁長官への権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-7/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の六第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-6/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-6/par-1/item-10 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の六第一項第十一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-6/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-6/par-1/item-11 --- ## 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