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 request the bank holding company that has a bank as its subsidiary company to report or submit materials that are to serve as a reference for the status of business and property of that bank.

②If the Prime Minister requests a bank to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) or requests the bank holding company that has the bank as its subsidiary company to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and finds it to be particularly necessary, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, ask the subsidiary corporation, etc. of that bank holding company (meaning a subsidiary company or a corporation specified by Cabinet Office Order as a corporation whose management is controlled by that bank holding company, and excluding the bank in question; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraphs (2) and (5) of the following Article) or the person that a bank holding company has entrusted with its services (including a person further entrusted by that entrusted person (including entrustment at two or more degrees of separation from the original entrustment); the same applies in the following paragraph, and paragraphs (2) and (5) of the following Article) to make a report or submit materials that are to serve as a reference for the status of business or property of that bank or bank holding company.

③The subsidiary corporation, etc. of a bank holding company or the person that a bank holding company has entrusted with its services may refuse to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph if it has legitimate grounds for doing so.