# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第四十六条の四 (Article 46-4) - 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: 第四十六条の四 (Article 46-4)（説明書類の縦覧） — address `art-46-4` - 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-46-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-46-4 - 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. --- ### 第四十六条の四（説明書類の縦覧） — (Public Inspection of Explanatory Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-46-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-46-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-46-4 **第一項** 金融商品取引業者は、事業年度ごとに、業務及び財産の状況に関する事項として内閣府令で定めるものを記載した説明書類を作成し、毎事業年度経過後政令で定める期間を経過した日から一年間、これを全ての営業所若しくは事務所に備え置いて公衆の縦覧に供し、又は内閣府令で定めるところにより、インターネットの利用その他の方法により公表しなければならない。 art-46-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-46-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-46-4/par-1 Each business year, a financial instruments business operator must prepare explanatory documents stating the particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order as pertinent to the state of its business and assets, and must keep those explanatory documents at all of its business offices and offices and make them available for public inspection, or disclose them using the internet or through other means pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, during the one-year period beginning from the day on which the period specified by Cabinet Order elapses following the end of each business year. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第六十五条の四第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-65-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-65-4/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の十八第一項（説明書類の縦覧） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-18/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の六第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-6/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-6/par-1/item-6 - 金融商品取引法 附則第三十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4181-65/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-39/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 附則第三条第一項（金融商品取引業者に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4241-86/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4241-86/art-3/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch financial-instruments-and-exchange-act-20261023T035921-007, 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