①For each business year of a principal bank or of the bank holding company that has that principal bank as its subsidiary company, a bank agent must keep the documents that its principal bank prepares pursuant to the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 21, paragraphs (1) and (2) or the documents that the bank holding company that has that principal bank as its subsidiary company prepares pursuant to the provisions of Article 52-28, paragraph (1) and Article 52-29, paragraph (1), at all of the business offices and other offices where the bank agent performs bank agency services for that principal bank, and make the documents available for public inspection.

②If the explanatory documents provided for in the preceding paragraph have been prepared as electronic or magnetic records, the bank agent may take a measure that is specified by Cabinet Office Order as a measure that uses electronic or magnetic means to make the information contained in the explanatory documents available to many and unspecified persons at all of their business offices or other offices that perform bank agency services. In such a case, the bank agent is deemed to have made the explanatory documents available for public inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

③Beyond what is provided for in the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, Cabinet Order prescribes the period of time during which the documents referred to in those paragraphs are made available for public inspection and other particulars necessary for applying the provisions of those paragraphs.