# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十三条 (Article 153) - 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: 第百五十三条 (Article 153)（業務改善命令） — address `art-153` - 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-153 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-153 - 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. --- ### 第百五十三条（業務改善命令） — (Business Improvement Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-153 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-153 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-153 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、金融商品取引所の定款、業務規程、受託契約準則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、当該金融商品取引所に対し、定款、業務規程、受託契約準則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-153/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-153/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-153/par-1 If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors as concerns a financial instruments exchange's articles of incorporation, operational rules, brokerage contract rules, other rules, or it trade practices, or as concerns its business operations or the state of its assets, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, order the financial instruments exchange to change its articles of incorporation, operational rules, brokerage contract rules, other rules, or its trade practices, or to take other 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-153/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/ja/administrative-procedure-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/405AC0000000088/art-13/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第百九十四条の六の二第一項第二号ホ（商品市場所管大臣への協議等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-6-2/par-1/item-2/sub-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-6-2/par-1/item-2/sub-5 - 金融商品取引法 第二百七条の三第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/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 附則第百二十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4181-65/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-128/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