①Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, a foreign bank's agent bank must keep the documents that its principal foreign bank and a company incorporated under foreign laws and regulations as the holding company that has the principal foreign bank as its subsidiary company (hereinafter referred to as a "foreign bank holding company" in this paragraph) prepares each business year that states the particulars of the status of business and property of the principal foreign bank and foreign bank holding company (limited to the explanatory documents for the business year prescribed in Article 21, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 52-29, paragraph (1) and documents similar to them which are written in Japanese or English) at all business offices in Japan where the foreign bank's agent bank performs foreign bank agency services for that principal foreign bank (excluding unmanned business offices; the same applies in the following paragraph), and must make them available for public inspection.

②If the documents provided for in the preceding paragraph have been prepared as electronic or magnetic records, the foreign bank's agent bank 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 those documents available to many and unspecified persons at all of the business offices where the foreign bank's agent bank provides foreign bank agency services. In such a case, the foreign bank's agent bank is deemed to have kept the documents provided for in the preceding paragraph and made them available for public inspection pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph.