# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第六十六条の九十 (Article 66-90)

- 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: 第六十六条の九十 (Article 66-90)（職務代行者） — address `art-66-90`
- 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-66-90
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-90
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### 第六十六条の九十（職務代行者） — Acting Representatives
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<sup>art-66-90 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-90 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-90</sup>

  **第一項**  内閣総理大臣は、投資運用関係業務受託業者（外国法人に限る。以下この条において同じ。）の国内における代表者が欠けた場合において、必要があると認めるときは、一時その職務を行うべき者（次項において「職務代行者」という。）を選任することができる。この場合において、当該投資運用関係業務受託業者は、国内における主たる営業所又は事務所の所在地において、その登記をしなければならない。
  <sup>art-66-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-90/par-1</sup>
  If the domestic representative of an investment management-related services contractor (limited to a foreign corporation; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) is absent and the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary, the Prime Minister may appoint a person to temporarily perform that representative's duties (referred to as an "acting representative" in the following paragraph). In this case, the investment management-related services contractor must register this at the location of its principal business office or office in Japan.
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  **第二項**  内閣総理大臣は、前項の規定により職務代行者を選任したときは、投資運用関係業務受託業者に対し、当該職務代行者に相当額の報酬を支払うべき旨を命ずることができる。
  <sup>art-66-90/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-90/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-90/par-2</sup>
  If the Prime Minister has appointed an acting representative pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister may order the investment management-related services contractor to pay that acting representative a reasonable amount of remuneration.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-66-90/par-1: この条 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の九十 (Article 66-90), art-66-90 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-90 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-90
- art-66-90/par-1: 次項 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の九十第二項 (Article 66-90, paragraph (2)), art-66-90/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-90/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-90/par-2
- art-66-90/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の九十第一項 (Article 66-90, paragraph (1)), art-66-90/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-90/par-1

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の九十第一項（職務代行者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-90/par-1
- 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の九十第二項（職務代行者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-90/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-90/par-2
- 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の九十二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-92/par-1
- 金融商品取引法 第二百九条第一項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-209/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-209/par-1/item-7

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## 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-20261023T035921-012, 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
