# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第六十六条の三十三 (Article 66-33) - 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: 第六十六条の三十三 (Article 66-33)（業務管理体制の整備） — address `art-66-33` - 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-66-33 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-33 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の三十三（業務管理体制の整備） — (Establishment of the Operational Control System) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66-33 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-33 **第一項** 信用格付業者は、信用格付業を公正かつ的確に遂行するため、内閣府令で定めるところにより、業務管理体制を整備しなければならない。 art-66-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-33/par-1 A credit rating agency must establish an operational control system for the fair and appropriate performance of its credit rating services, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する業務管理体制は、専門的知識及び技能を有する者の配置その他の業務の品質を管理するための措置並びに自己又は格付関係者（信用格付の対象となる事項に関し利害を有する者として内閣府令で定める者をいう。第六十六条の三十五において同じ。）の利益を図る目的をもつて投資者の利益を害することを防止するための措置その他業務の執行の適正を確保するための措置を含むものでなければならない。 art-66-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-33/par-2 The operational control system referred to in the preceding paragraph must include measures for assigning persons with expert knowledge and skills and for otherwise managing the quality of business, measures for preventing the investors' interests from being harmed with the aim of benefiting the credit rating agency itself or a rating entity, etc. (meaning a person specified by Cabinet Office Order as having an interest in the thing on which a credit rating is based; the same applies in Article 66-35) and other measures for ensuring the proper execution of business. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66-33/par-2: 前項 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の三十三第一項 (Article 66-33, paragraph (1)), art-66-33/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-33/par-1 - art-66-33/par-2: 第六十六条の三十五 → 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の三十五 (Article 66-35), art-66-35 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-35 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の三十三第二項（業務管理体制の整備） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-33/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十九第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-49/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 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22