# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第七十九条の四 (Article 79-4) - 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: 第七十九条の四 (Article 79-4)（報告の徴取及び立入検査） — address `art-79-4` - 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-79-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-4 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十九条の四（報告の徴取及び立入検査） — (Submission of Reports and On-Site Inspections) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-4 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、公益又は投資者保護のため必要かつ適当であると認めるときは、認定協会又は当該認定協会から業務の委託を受けた者（その者から委託（二以上の段階にわたる委託を含む。）を受けた者を含む。以下この条において同じ。）に対し、その業務若しくは財産に関し参考となるべき報告若しくは資料の提出を命じ、又は当該職員に、当該認定協会又は当該認定協会から業務の委託を受けた者の事務所に立ち入り、その業務若しくは財産の状況若しくは帳簿書類その他の物件の検査（当該認定協会から業務の委託を受けた者にあつては、当該認定協会の業務又は財産に関し必要なものに限る。）をさせ、若しくは関係者に質問（当該認定協会から業務の委託を受けた者にあつては、当該認定協会の業務又は財産に関し必要なものに限る。）をさせることができる。 art-79-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-4/par-1 When the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors, the Prime Minister may order a certified association or the person that a certified association has entrusted with its business (including a person that has received entrustment from the person (including entrustment at two or more degrees of separation from the original entrustment); hereinafter the same applies in this Article), to submit reports or materials that should serve as a reference with regard to the business or assets of the certified association or person, and may have the relevant officials enter the office of a certified association or the person that a certified association has entrusted with its business to inspect the state of its business or assets or its books, documents, and any other articles (but may only have the relevant officials inspect the person that a certified association has entrusted with its business as is necessary in connection with the business or assets of the certified association) or to question the relevant persons (but may only have the relevant officials question the person that a certified Association has entrusted with its business as is necessary in connection with the business or assets of the certified association). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79-4/par-1: この条 → 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の四 (Article 79-4), art-79-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-4 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第七十九条の四第一項（報告の徴取及び立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-79-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-79-4/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十条第一項（検査職員の証票携帯） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-190/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-190/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の七第二項第五号（金融庁長官への権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-7/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-7/par-2/item-5 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十四条の七第三項（金融庁長官への権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-194-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-194-7/par-3 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十八条の六第一項第十一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-198-6/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-198-6/par-1/item-11 - 金融商品取引法 第百九十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-199/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-199/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