# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百七十九条 (Article 179) - 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: 第百七十九条 (Article 179)（審判手続開始決定書） — address `art-179` - 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-179 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-179 - 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. --- ### 第百七十九条（審判手続開始決定書） — (Written Decision to Commence Trial Procedures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-179 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-179 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-179 **第一項** 審判手続開始の決定は、文書によつて行わなければならない。 art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-179/par-1 A decision to commence trial procedures must be made in writing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 審判手続開始の決定に係る決定書（次項及び第百八十三条において「審判手続開始決定書」という。）には、最初の審判手続の期日及び場所、課徴金に係る前条第一項各号に掲げる事実並びに納付すべき課徴金の額及びその計算の基礎を記載しなければならない。 art-179/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-179/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-179/par-2 A written decision pertaining to a decision to commence trial procedures (hereinafter referred to as the "written decision to commence trial procedures" in the following paragraph and Article 183) must state the first date for trial procedures and the place, the facts set forth in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article which are connected with the administrative monetary penalty, the amount of the administrative monetary penalty that is required to be paid, and the basis for its calculation. machine translation, not official **第三項** 審判手続は、課徴金の納付を命じようとする者（以下この節において「被審人」という。）に審判手続開始決定書の謄本を送達することにより、開始する。 art-179/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-179/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-179/par-3 Trial procedures are commenced through the service of a certified copy of a written decision to commence trial procedures on the person that would be ordered to pay the administrative monetary paenlty (hereinafter referred to as the "respondent" in this Section). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 被審人には、最初の審判手続の期日に出頭すべき旨を命じなければならない。 art-179/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-179/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-179/par-4 A respondent must be ordered to appear on the first date for trial procedures. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-179/par-2: 次項 → 金融商品取引法 第百七十九条第三項 (Article 179, paragraph (3)), art-179/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-179/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-179/par-3 - art-179/par-2: 第百八十三条 → 金融商品取引法 第百八十三条 (Article 183), art-183 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-183 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-183 - art-179/par-2: 前条第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百七十八条第一項 (Article 178, paragraph (1)), art-178/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-178/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-178/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百七十九条第二項（審判手続開始決定書） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-179/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-179/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T035921-014, 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