①If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of a bank's services, the Prime Minister may ask a bank (including a bank agent that has the bank as its principal bank) to make a report or submit materials on the status of its business or property.

②If the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of a bank's services, the Prime Minister, to the extent necessary, may ask the subsidiary corporation, etc. of the bank (meaning a subsidiary company, or a corporation that is specified by Cabinet Office Order as one whose management is controlled by a bank; the same applies in the following paragraph, paragraphs (2) and (5) of the following Article and Article 47, paragraph (2)) or a person that a bank has entrusted with its services (including a person further entrusted by that entrusted person (including entrustment at two or more degrees of separation from the original entrustment) and excluding a bank agent referred to in the preceding paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraphs (2) and (5) of the following Article) to make a report or submit materials that is to serve as a reference on the status of business or property of the bank.

③The subsidiary corporation, etc. of a bank or a person that a bank has entrusted with its services may refuse to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph if it has legitimate grounds for doing so.