# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第六十六条の十八 (Article 66-18) - 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: 第六十六条の十八 (Article 66-18)（説明書類の縦覧） — address `art-66-18` - 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-66-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-18 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の十八（説明書類の縦覧） — (Public Inspection of Explanatory Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-18 **第一項** 金融商品仲介業者は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、所属金融商品取引業者等の事業年度ごとに、所属金融商品取引業者等が第四十六条の四又は第四十七条の三の規定（当該所属金融商品取引業者等が登録金融機関である場合には、銀行法（昭和五十六年法律第五十九号）第二十一条第一項及び第二項その他政令で定める規定）により作成する説明書類を金融商品仲介業を行う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-66-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-18/par-1 For each business year of an entrusting financial instruments business operator, etc. and pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, a financial instruments intermediary service provider must keep the explanatory documents that the entrusting financial instruments business operator, etc. prepares pursuant to the provisions of Article 46-4 or Article 47-3 (if the entrusting financial instruments business operator, etc., is a registered financial institution, the documents that it prepares pursuant to the provisions of Article 21, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Banking Act (Act No. 59 of 1981) or other provisions specified by Cabinet Order) at all of the business offices and offices at which it conducts financial instruments intermediary service, and must make them available for public inspection, or disclose them using the internet or through other means, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-66-18/par-1: 第四十六条の四 → 金融商品取引法 第四十六条の四 (Article 46-4), art-46-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-46-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-46-4 - art-66-18/par-1: 第四十七条の三 → 金融商品取引法 第四十七条の三 (Article 47-3), art-47-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-47-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-47-3 - art-66-18/par-1: 銀行法（昭和五十六年法律第五十九号）第二十一条第一項 → 銀行法 第二十一条第一項 (Article 21, paragraph (1)), art-21/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-21/par-1 - art-66-18/par-1: 第二項 → 銀行法 第二十一条第二項 (Article 21, paragraph (2)), art-21/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-21/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の二十六第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-26/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 附則第七十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4181-65/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4181-65/art-74/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-20261023T033157-012, 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