Except in cases specified by Cabinet Office Order, a bank must file a notification with the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order if the bank seeks to establish a branch office or other business office in Japan, change its location (including a change in the location of its head office), change its type, or close it.
銀行は、日本において支店その他の営業所の設置、位置の変更（本店の位置の変更を含む。）、種類の変更又は廃止をしようとするときは、内閣府令で定める場合を除き、内閣府令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣に届け出なければならない。
Except in cases specified by Cabinet Office Order, a bank must obtain the authorization by the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order if the bank seeks to establish a branch office or other business office in a foreign country, change its type, or close it.
銀行は、外国において支店その他の営業所の設置、種類の変更又は廃止をしようとするときは、内閣府令で定める場合を除き、内閣府令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。
A bank must obtain the authorization by the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order if the bank seeks to conclude or terminate a contract under which it entrusts a person with an action set forth in one of the items of Article 2, paragraph (14) in a foreign country.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply when a bank seeks to conclude or terminate a contract referred to in that paragraph with a subsidiary company of that bank that constitutes a person engaged in banking in a foreign country in accordance with foreign laws and regulations, or with any other person specified by Cabinet Office Order. In such cases, the bank must file a notification with the Prime Minister in advance, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.
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The term "bank agency services" as used in this Act means the business of performing any of the following actions on behalf of a bank:
この法律において「銀行代理業」とは、銀行のために次に掲げる行為のいずれかを行う営業をいう。
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A bank must obtain the authorization by the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order if the bank seeks to conclude or terminate a contract under which it entrusts a person…
銀行は、第二条第十四項各号に掲げる行為を外国において委託する旨の契約を締結しようとするとき、又は当該契約を終了しようとするときは、内閣府令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。
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「銀行」
A person that carries on banking (銀行業) under a licence from the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) under Article 4, paragraph (1).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
banking
「銀行業」
The business of accepting deposits or installment savings (定期積金) together with lending funds or discounting bills, or of carrying out exchange transactions (為替取引).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
subsidiary company
「子会社」
Another company in which a company holds more than 50% of the voting rights of all shareholders, etc. (総株主等の議決権); a company in which the company and its subsidiaries, or its subsidiaries alone, hold more than 50% is also treated as its subsidiary company.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (8)· applies throughout the law
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.