Except in cases specified by Cabinet Office Order, if a bank temporarily suspends all or part of services at its business office due to a natural disaster or any other compelling reasons, it must immediately file a notification with the Prime Minister of that fact with the reasons attached, as well as issue public notice of that fact and post the fact at that business office, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. The same applies if a bank resumes all or part of its services at a business office where it has temporarily suspended all or part of its services.
銀行は、内閣府令で定める場合を除き、天災その他のやむを得ない理由によりその営業所において臨時にその業務の全部又は一部を休止するときは、直ちにその旨を、理由を付して内閣総理大臣に届け出るとともに、公告し、かつ、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該営業所の店頭に掲示しなければならない。銀行が臨時にその業務の全部又は一部を休止した営業所においてその業務の全部又は一部を再開するときも、同様とする。
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, a bank that, pursuant to the provisions of Article 57, has established the method set forth in item (i) of that Article as its means of giving public notice must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order and in addition to what is done pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, make the content of the posting pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph available for public inspection by automatic public transmission (meaning transmission made automatically in response to a request from the public for the purpose of being received directly by the public, excluding that which falls under broadcasting or cable broadcasting; the same applies hereinafter) conducted by connecting to a telecommunications line.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the public notice pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) and the measures to make it available for public inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are not required if a bank temporarily suspends all or part of its services at an unmanned business office, and in any other case specified by Cabinet Office Order.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), the posting at the business office pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is not required if a bank temporarily suspends part of its services at an unmanned business office or in any other case specified by Cabinet Office Order.