①Except in the case specified by Cabinet Office Order, when a specified bank agent temporarily suspends all or part of services at its business office or other offices where services involved in specified activities as a bank agent are performed due to a natural disaster or for any other compelling reasons, the specified bank agent must immediately file a notification to that effect with the Prime Minister and give the reason for this, as well as post a sign to that effect at the business office or other offices and, except where the scale of its business is extremely small or in any other case specified by Cabinet Office Order, make it available for public inspection by automatic public transmission conducted by connecting to a telecommunications line, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. The same applies if the specified bank agent resumes all or part of its services at a business office or other offices in which it has temporarily suspended all or part of its services.

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the posting and the measures to make it available for public inspection pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph are not required if a specified bank agent temporarily suspends part of its services at unmanned business offices or other unmanned offices, and in other cases specified by Cabinet Office Order.