# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の二十の十二 (Article 156-20-12) - 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: 第百五十六条の二十の十二 (Article 156-20-12)（報告の徴取及び検査） — address `art-156-20-12` - 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-156-20-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-12 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条の二十の十二（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-156-20-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-12 **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、外国金融商品取引清算機関、その清算参加者若しくは当該外国金融商品取引清算機関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。）に対し当該外国金融商品取引清算機関の金融商品債務引受業に係る業務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外国金融商品取引清算機関若しくは当該外国金融商品取引清算機関から業務の委託を受けた者の金融商品債務引受業に係る業務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（当該外国金融商品取引清算機関から業務の委託を受けた者にあつては、当該外国金融商品取引清算機関の金融商品債務引受業に係る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-156-20-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-12/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 foreign financial instruments clearing organization, its clearing member, or the person that a foreign financial instruments clearing organization has entrusted with its 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 report or submit materials that should serve as a reference with regard to business or assets linked to the financial instruments obligation assumption services of the foreign financial instruments clearing organization, and may have the relevant officials inspect the state of the business or assets, or the books, documents, and any other articles, of a foreign financial instruments clearing organization or the person that a foreign financial instruments clearing organization has entrusted with its business (but may only have the relevant officials inspect the person that a foreign financial instruments clearing organization has entrusted with its business as is necessary in connection with the business or assets linked to the financial instruments obligation assumption services of the foreign financial instruments clearing organization). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-156-20-12/par-1: この条 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十の十二 (Article 156-20-12), art-156-20-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-12 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十の十二第一項（報告の徴取及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-20-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-20-12/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-22/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