If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of a bank's services, the Prime Minister may have relevant officials enter the business office or other facilities of a bank (including a bank agent that has the bank as its principal bank), have those officials ask questions about the status of its business or property, and have them inspect its books, documents, and any other articles.
If an entry into facilities is to be made, and questioning or inspection is to be conducted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly necessary, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, have relevant officials enter the facilities of a subsidiary corporation, etc. of the bank or the facilities of the person that the bank has entrusted with its services, have those officials ask questions about any particulars that are required to be asked in relation to the questioning or inspection of the bank, and have them inspect its books, documents, and any other articles.
In the cases referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the relevant officials must carry an identification card, and must present it if a person concerned requests them to do so.
前二項の場合において、当該職員は、その身分を示す証明書を携帯し、関係人の請求があつたときは、これを提示しなければならない。
The authority under paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) must not be construed as being granted for criminal investigation purposes.
The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the questioning and inspection under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the subsidiary corporation, etc. of a bank or of the person that a bank has entrusted with its services.
(Making Reports or Submitting Materials)
The 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…
銀行の子法人等又は当該銀行から業務の委託を受けた者は、正当な理由があるときは、前項の規定による報告又は資料の提出を拒むことができる。
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If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of a bank's services, the Prime Minister may have relevant officials enter the business office or…
内閣総理大臣は、銀行の業務の健全かつ適切な運営を確保するため必要があると認めるときは、当該職員に銀行（当該銀行を所属銀行とする銀行代理業者を含む。）の営業所その他の施設に立ち入らせ、その業務若しくは財産の状況に関し質問させ、又は帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。
Open this provision(On-Site Inspections)
If an entry into facilities is to be made, and questioning or inspection is to be conducted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly…
内閣総理大臣は、前項の規定による立入り、質問又は検査を行う場合において特に必要があると認めるときは、その必要の限度において、当該職員に銀行の子法人等若しくは当該銀行から業務の委託を受けた者の施設に立ち入らせ、銀行に対する質問若しくは検査に必要な事項に関し質問させ、又は帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。
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「銀行」
A person that carries on banking (銀行業) under a licence from the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) under Article 4, paragraph (1).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
bank agent
「銀行代理業者」
A person that carries on bank agency services (銀行代理業) under a permission from the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) under Article 52-36, paragraph (1).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (15)· applies throughout the law
principal bank
「所属銀行」
The bank for which a bank agent (銀行代理業者) acts as agent or intermediary, and which accepts the deposits or installment savings, etc., lends the funds or discounts the bills, or carries out the funds transfer under the contracts so concluded.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (16)· applies throughout the law
subsidiary corporation, etc.machine translation
「子法人等」
A bank's subsidiary companies (子会社) and other corporations that a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies as ones whose management the bank controls; the term is used in Article 24, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 25, paragraphs (2) and (5) and Article 47, paragraph (2).
Defined inArticle 24, paragraph (2)· applies only in this provision and in Article 24, paragraph (3); Article 25, paragraphs (2) and (5); and Article 47, paragraph (2)
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.