# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第六十六条の三十八 (Article 66-38) - 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: 第六十六条の三十八 (Article 66-38)（事業報告書の提出） — address `art-66-38` - 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-66-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-38 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の三十八（事業報告書の提出） — (Submission of Business Reports) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66-38 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-38 **第一項** 信用格付業者は、事業年度ごとに、内閣府令で定めるところにより、事業報告書を作成し、毎事業年度経過後政令で定める期間内に、これを内閣総理大臣に提出しなければならない。 art-66-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-38/par-1 Each business year, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, a credit rating agency must prepare a business report and submit it to the Prime Minister within the period specified by Cabinet Order after the end of the business year. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の六第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-6/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-6/par-1/item-4 - 金融商品取引法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4211-58/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4211-58/art-4/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