# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百八十三条 (Article 183)

- 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: 第百八十三条 (Article 183)（答弁書） — address `art-183`
- 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-183
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-183
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### 第百八十三条（答弁書） — (Written Answer)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-183 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-183 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-183</sup>

  **第一項**  被審人は、審判手続開始決定書の謄本の送達を受けたときは、これに対する答弁書を、遅滞なく、審判官に提出しなければならない。
  <sup>art-183/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-183/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-183/par-1</sup>
  Upon being served with a certified copy of a written decision to commence trial procedures, the respondent must submit a written answer to this to the trial examiners without delay.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  被審人が、審判手続開始決定書に記載された最初の審判手続の期日（当該期日が変更された場合にあつては、変更後の期日）前に、課徴金に係る第百七十八条第一項各号に掲げる事実及び納付すべき課徴金の額を認める旨の答弁書を提出したときは、審判手続の期日を開くことを要しない。
  <sup>art-183/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-183/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-183/par-2</sup>
  If a respondent submits, before the first date for trial procedures stated in the written decision to commence trial procedures (or, if that date is changed, the new date), a written answer acknowledging the facts set forth in the items of Article 178, paragraph (1) related to the administrative monetary penalty and acknowledging the amount of the administrative monetary penalty that is required to be paid, it is not necessary to hold a date for trial procedures.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-183/par-2: 第百七十八条第一項 → 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

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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-20261023T035921-014, 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
