# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十一条 (Article 151) - 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: 第百五十一条 (Article 151)（報告の徴取及び検査） — address `art-151` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-151 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-151 - 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. --- ### 第百五十一条（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-151 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-151 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-151 **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、金融商品取引所、その子会社、その商品取引参加者（第百十二条第二項又は第百十三条第二項の規定により取引資格を与えられた者をいう。以下同じ。）、当該金融商品取引所に上場されている有価証券の発行者又は当該金融商品取引所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。以下この条において同じ。）に対し当該金融商品取引所、当該子会社若しくは当該商品取引参加者の業務（当該商品取引参加者にあつては、その行う商品関連市場デリバティブ取引に関するものに限る。）若しくは財産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金融商品取引所、当該子会社、当該商品取引参加者若しくは当該金融商品取引所から業務の委託を受けた者の業務（当該商品取引参加者にあつては、その行う商品関連市場デリバティブ取引に関するものに限る。）若しくは財産の状況若しくは帳簿書類その他の物件の検査（当該子会社又は当該金融商品取引所から業務の委託を受けた者にあつては、当該金融商品取引所の業務又は財産に関し必要な検査に限る。）をさせることができる。 art-151/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-151/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-151/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 financial instruments exchange, its subsidiary company, its commodity trading participant (meaning a person that has been granted the qualification for trading under the provisions of Article 112, paragraph (2) or Article 113, paragraph (2); hereinafter the same applies),an issuer of securities listed on a financial instruments exchange, or the person that a financial instruments exchange has entrusted with it 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 Article), to submit reports or materials that should serve as a reference with regard to the business or assets of the financial instruments exchange or its subsidiary company, or the relevant commodity trading participant (in the case of the commodity trading participant, limited to the business related to its commodity-related market derivatives transactions) or may have their officials inspect the state of the business (in the case of the relevant commodity trading participant, limited to the business related to its commodity-related market derivatives transactions) or assets, or the books, documents, and any other articles, of a financial instruments exchange, its subsidiary company, the relevant commodity trading participant or the person that a financial instruments exchange has entrusted with its business (for a person that has been entrusted by the subsidiary company or the financial instruments exchange with business, limited to an inspection necessary for the business or property of the financial instruments exchange). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-151/par-1: 第百十二条第二項 → 金融商品取引法 第百十二条第二項 (Article 112, paragraph (2)), art-112/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-112/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-112/par-2 - art-151/par-1: 第百十三条第二項 → 金融商品取引法 第百十三条第二項 (Article 113, paragraph (2)), art-113/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-113/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-113/par-2 - art-151/par-1: この条 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十一条 (Article 151), art-151 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-151 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-151 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百十二条第三項（会員金融商品取引所の取引参加者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-112/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-112/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百十三条第三項（株式会社金融商品取引所の取引参加者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-113/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-113/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十一条第一項（報告の徴取及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-151/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-151/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十三条の四第一項（自主規制法人に対する監督規定の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-153-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-153-4/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十四条の二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-154-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-154-2/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/ja/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六号（金融庁長官への権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-7/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-7/par-2/item-6 - 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/ja/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十一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-6/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-6/par-1/item-11 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-199/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-199/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