# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百八十五条の三 (Article 185-3)

- 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: 第百八十五条の三 (Article 185-3)（証拠書類等の提出） — address `art-185-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
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### 第百八十五条の三（証拠書類等の提出） — (Submission of Documentary Evidence)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-185-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-185-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-185-3</sup>

  **第一項**  被審人は、審判手続において、証拠書類又は証拠物を提出することができる。ただし、審判官が証拠書類又は証拠物を提出すべき相当の期間を定めたときは、その期間内に提出しなければならない。
  <sup>art-185-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-185-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-185-3/par-1</sup>
  A respondent may submit documentary evidence or an article of evidence during the course of trial procedures; provided, however, that if the trial examiners designate a reasonable period for the respondent to submit documentary evidence or an article of evidence, the respondent must submit it within that designated period.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  審判官は、被審人の申立てにより又は職権で、書類その他の物件の所持人に対し、その物件の提出を求め、かつ、その提出された物件を留め置くことができる。
  <sup>art-185-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-185-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-185-3/par-2</sup>
  Trial examiners may order the possessor of a document or other articles to submit that article and retain the submitted article, at the petition of the respondent or ex officio.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 金融商品取引法 第二百五条の三第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-205-3/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-205-3/par-1/item-5

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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
