When an application is filed for the authorization referred to in paragraph (1) or the proviso to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the Prime Minister must examine whether the following criteria are met:
the person meets the following criteria, if the person filing the application for the authorization (hereinafter referred to as the "applicant" in this Article) is a company or other corporations, or, if a company or other corporations are to be incorporated under the authorization:
当該認可の申請をした者（以下この条において「申請者」という。）が会社その他の法人である場合又は当該認可を受けて会社その他の法人が設立される場合にあつては、次に掲げる基準に適合すること。
in light of the particulars of the funds for acquisition, the purpose of holding the voting rights, or any other particulars relevant to the holding of a number voting rights in a bank which is equal to or greater than the major shareholder threshold by the applicant or by the company or other corporations that are to be incorporated by obtaining the authorization (hereinafter referred to as the "corporate applicant, etc." in this item), the sound and appropriate management of the services of the bank in which the corporate applicant, etc. is or is to become the holder of a number of voting rights which is equal to or greater than the major shareholder threshold is unlikely to be impaired;
in light of the status of property and income and expenditures of the corporate applicant, etc. and its subsidiary companies (including a company that is to become its subsidiary company), the sound and appropriate management of the services of the bank in which the corporate applicant, etc. is or is to become the holder of a number of voting rights which is equal to or greater than the major shareholder threshold is unlikely to be impaired; and
in light of its personnel structure, the corporate applicant, etc. has a sufficient understanding of the public nature of banks' services, and has sufficient social credibility.
in the case other than that set forth in the preceding item, the person meets the following criteria:
前号に掲げる場合以外の場合にあつては、次に掲げる基準に適合すること。
in light of the particulars of the funds for acquisition, the purpose of holding the voting rights, or any other particulars relevant to the holding of a number of voting rights in a bank which is equal to or greater than the major shareholder threshold by the applicant, the sound and appropriate management of the services of the bank in which the applicant is or is to become the holder of a number of voting rights which is equal to or greater than the major shareholder threshold is unlikely to be impaired;
in light of the status of property of the applicant (including the status of the applicant's income and expenditures, if the applicant is a person that conducts business), the sound and appropriate management of the services of the bank in which the applicant is or is to become the holder of a number of voting rights which is equal to or greater than the major shareholder threshold is unlikely to be impaired; and