# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第二百十七条 (Article 217) - 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: 第二百十七条 (Article 217)（責任者等の立会い） — address `art-217` - 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-217 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-217 - 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. --- ### 第二百十七条（責任者等の立会い） — (Attendance of the Person in Charge) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-217 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-217 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-217 **第一項** 委員会職員は、人の住居又は人の看守する邸宅若しくは建造物その他の場所で臨検、捜索、差押え又は記録命令付差押えをするときは、その所有者若しくは管理者（これらの者の代表者、代理人その他これらの者に代わるべき者を含む。）又はこれらの者の使用人若しくは同居の親族で成年に達した者を立ち会わせなければならない。 art-217/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-217/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-217/par-1 When carrying out an inspection, a search, a seizure, or a seizure with an order to produce a copy of records at a person's residence, or at a mansion, building, or other place that a person watches over, a Commission official must have the owner or manager (or a representative, agent, or other person that may act on the owner's or manager's behalf) or the employee or co-habiting adult relative of the owner or manager, present at the site. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、同項に規定する者を立ち会わせることができないときは、その隣人で成年に達した者又はその地の警察官若しくは地方公共団体の職員を立ち会わせなければならない。 art-217/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-217/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-217/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if it is not possible to have any of the persons prescribed in that paragraph present at the site, a Commission official must have an adult neighbor of the person, or another police officer or official of the local government, present at the site. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 女子の身体について捜索するときは、成年の女子を立ち会わせなければならない。ただし、急速を要する場合はこの限りでない。 art-217/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-217/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-217/par-3 When searching a female, a Commission official must have an adult female present; provided, however, that this does not apply in cases of urgency. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-217/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第二百十七条第一項 (Article 217, paragraph (1)), art-217/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-217/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-217/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第二百十七条第二項（責任者等の立会い） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-217/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-217/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第二百二十四条第二項（財務局等職員の犯則調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-224/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-224/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 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22