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 have relevant officials enter the business office or other facilities of the bank holding company that has a bank as its subsidiary company, have those officials ask questions about the status of business or property of the bank or the bank holding company, and have them inspect the books, documents, and any other articles of the bank holding company.

②In entering a facility, conducting questioning or inspection at a bank pursuant to the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (1), or entering a facility, conducting questioning, or inspection at the bank holding company that has the bank as its subsidiary company pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly necessary, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, have relevant officials enter the business office or other facilities of a subsidiary corporation, etc. of the bank holding company or the business office or other facilities of the person that a bank holding company has entrusted with its services, have those officials ask questions about any particulars that are required in relation to the questioning or inspection of the bank or the bank holding company, and have them inspect its books, documents, and any other objects.

③In the case referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the officials must carry an identification card, and must present it if a person concerned requests them to do so.

④The authority under paragraph (1) or (2) must not be construed as being granted for criminal investigation purposes.

⑤The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the questioning and inspection pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the subsidiary corporation, etc. of a bank holding company or of the person that a bank holding company has entrusted with its services.