# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第七十三条 (Article 73) - 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: 第七十三条 (Article 73)（定款、業務規程等の変更命令） — address `art-73` - 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-73 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-73 - 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. --- ### 第七十三条（定款、業務規程等の変更命令） — (Order to Change the Articles of Incorporation, Operational Rules, or Other Rules) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-73 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、認可協会の定款その他の規則若しくは取引の慣行又は業務の運営若しくは財産の状況に関し、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、当該認可協会に対し、定款その他の規則又は取引の慣行の変更その他監督上必要な措置をとることを命ずることができる。この場合においては、行政手続法第十三条第一項の規定による意見陳述のための手続の区分にかかわらず、聴聞を行わなければならない。 art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-73/par-1 If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors in connection with an authorized association's articles of incorporation or other rules, its trade practices, or its business operations or the state of its assets, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, order the authorized association to change its articles of incorporation or other rules, to change its trade practices, or otherwise take measures that are necessary from a supervisory perspective. In such a case, irrespective of the category of proceeding for hearing statements of opinion under Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Procedure Act, the Prime Minister must conduct a hearing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-73/par-1: 行政手続法第十三条第一項 → 行政手続法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-procedure-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-13/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第七十七条の七第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-77-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-77-7/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二百七条の三第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-207-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-207-3/par-1/item-1 - 金融商品取引法 附則第八十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4181-65/art-85/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-85/par-2 --- ## 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