# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)

- 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4211-58/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4211-58/art-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4211-58/art-4
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### 第四条
<sup>suppl-4211-58/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4211-58/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4211-58/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  新金融商品取引法第六十六条の三十八の規定は、施行日以後に開始する事業年度に係る同条に規定する事業報告書について適用する。
<sup>suppl-4211-58/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4211-58/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4211-58/art-4/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 66-38 of the New Financial Instruments and Exchange Act apply to the business report prescribed in that Article for a business year that begins on or after the effective date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4211-58/art-4/par-1: 新金融商品取引法第六十六条の三十八 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の三十八 (Article 66-38), art-66-38 — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-38

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 金融商品取引法 附則第二十条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4211-58/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4211-58/art-20/par-1

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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-20261023T035921-049, 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
