A bank must not conduct the following transactions or actions with its specified related party (meaning a subsidiary company of the bank, the bank's major shareholder, a bank holding company that has the bank as its subsidiary company, a subsidiary company of the bank holding company (excluding the bank), or a bank agent that has the bank as its principal bank, and other persons that have a unique relationship specified by Cabinet Order with the bank; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article) or with the customer of its specified related party; provided, however, that this does not apply if there is a compelling reason specified by Cabinet Office Order for the bank to conduct the transaction or the action and the bank has obtained the approval of the Prime Minister, or if the bank conducts the transaction or the action with a subsidiary company of the bank holding company (limited to one that is not a subsidiary company of any other bank or bank holding company) that has the bank in question as its subsidiary company (limited to a bank other than that bank), and this has been approved by the Prime Minister as being unlikely to damage the sound management of the bank or as satisfying other requirements specified by Cabinet Office Order:
銀行は、その特定関係者（当該銀行の子会社、当該銀行の銀行主要株主、当該銀行を子会社とする銀行持株会社、当該銀行持株会社の子会社（当該銀行を除く。）、当該銀行を所属銀行とする銀行代理業者その他の当該銀行と政令で定める特殊の関係のある者をいう。以下この条及び次条において同じ。）又はその特定関係者の顧客との間で、次に掲げる取引又は行為をしてはならない。ただし、当該取引若しくは行為をすることにつき内閣府令で定めるやむを得ない理由がある場合において、内閣総理大臣の承認を受けたとき、又は当該銀行を子会社とする銀行持株会社（他の銀行又は銀行持株会社の子会社でないものに限る。）の子会社（当該銀行以外の銀行に限る。）との間で当該取引若しくは行為を行う場合において、当該銀行の経営の健全性を損なうおそれがないことその他の内閣府令で定める要件を満たすものとして内閣総理大臣の承認を受けたときは、この限りでない。
a transaction conducted with the specified related party which is specified by Cabinet Office Order as having the terms and conditions that are disadvantageous to the bank in light of the normal terms and conditions under which the bank conducts transactions; and
a transaction or action conducted with the specified related party or with the customer of the specified related party which is equivalent to the transaction or action set forth in the preceding item, and which is specified by Cabinet Office Order as being likely to impair the sound and appropriate performance of that bank's services.