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.

Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, a foreign bank's agent bank must explain to customers the particulars of the status of business and property of its principal foreign bank, and take other measures for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of the foreign bank agency services performed by that foreign bank's agent bank.

If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of foreign bank agency services, the Prime Minister may request a foreign bank's agent bank to make a report or submit materials on the status of business or property of its principal foreign bank (including a person that has a unique relationship specified by Cabinet Order with the principal foreign bank).

①When the principal foreign bank of a foreign bank's agent bank (excluding a principal foreign bank (limited to the foreign bank with which the foreign bank branch is affiliated) related to the foreign bank agency services that the foreign bank's agency bank performs (limited to the services performed by that foreign bank branch)) falls under one of the following items, the foreign bank's agent bank must file a notification to that effect with the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order:

②When a foreign bank's agent bank files a notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph (limited to the part related to items (ii) through (vi)) it must issue public notice of the content of that notification, as well as post a notice to that effect in a place easily seen by the public at all of the business offices of the foreign bank's agent bank where it performs foreign bank agency services for the principal foreign bank to which the notification pertains for a period of not less than one month, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

③In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, a foreign bank's agent bank that, pursuant to the provisions of Article 49-2, paragraph (1), has established the method set forth in item (i) of that paragraph as its means of giving public notice, or that, pursuant to the provisions of Article 57, has established the method set forth in item (i) of that Article as its means of giving public notice must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order and in addition to what is done pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, make the content of the posting pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph available for public inspection by automatic public transmission conducted by connecting to a telecommunications line during the period referred to in that paragraph.

The provisions of Article 52-40, Article 52-41, Articles 52-43 through 52-45 (excluding item (iv)), Article 52-49 and Article 52-50, paragraph (1), apply mutatis mutandis to a foreign bank's agent bank for provisions related to a bank agent, to a principal foreign bank for provisions related to a principal bank, and to a foreign bank agency services for provisions related to foreign bank agency services. In such cases, the term "services of the principal bank" in Article 52-45, item (v) is deemed to be replaced with "foreign bank agency services," and any other necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.