If a bank agent comes to fall under any of the cases in the following items, the person specified in that item must file a notification to that effect with the Prime Minister, within 30 days from the day on which the bank agent came to fall under the case:

If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of bank agency services by a bank agent, the Prime Minister may ask the bank agent to make a report or submit materials on the status of their business or property.

①If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of bank agency services by a bank agent, the Prime Minister may have relevant officials enter the business office, office, or other facilities of the bank agent, have those officials ask questions on the status of their business or property, and have them inspect the books, documents, and any other articles.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the relevant officials must carry an identification card, and must present it if a person concerned requests them to do so.

③The authority under paragraph (1) must not be construed as being granted for criminal investigation purposes.

If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of bank agency services by a bank agent in light of the status of business or property of that bank agent, the Prime Minister may order the bank agent to change their business content or business methods and order other measures that are necessary for supervision, to the extent necessary.

①If a bank agent falls under any of the following items, the Prime Minister may revoke the license referred to in Article 52-36, paragraph (1) or order it to suspend all or part of its bank agency services by setting a due date:

②If an officer of a bank agent comes to fall under any of the items (iii) through (v) of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister may order the bank agent to dismiss that officer.

If a bank agent falls under any of the following items, the license referred to in Article 52-36, paragraph (1) ceases to be effective:

①Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, a principal bank must give guidance on the services involved in bank agency services that its bank agent performs and take other measures to ensure sound and appropriate management of those services.

②Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, a principal bank agent (meaning a bank agent that further entrusts another bank agent with bank agency services; the same applies hereinafter) must give guidance on the services involved in bank agency services that the secondary bank agent (meaning a bank agent that carries out bank agency services on re-entrustment from a principal bank agent; the same applies hereinafter) performs, and take other measures to ensure sound and appropriate management of those services.

①A principal bank is liable to compensate for any damage that its bank agent causes a customer in its activities as a bank agent.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply in the following cases:

③A principal bank agent is liable to compensate for any damage that its secondary bank agent causes a customer in its activities as a bank agent; provided, however, that this does not apply if the principal bank agent exercises due care in further entrusting the secondary bank agent with those activities and endeavors to prevent the occurrence of the damage that the secondary bank agent causes to the customer in connection with the activities as a bank agent it performs.

④The provisions of paragraph (1) do not preclude the principal bank from exercising its right of reimbursement against the bank agent, and the provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude the principal bank agent from exercising its right of reimbursement against the secondary bank agent.

⑤The provisions of Article 724 (Extinctive Prescription of Right to Demand Compensation for Damage Caused by a Tort) and Article 724-2 (Extinctive Prescription of Right to Demand Compensation for Damage Arising from Death or Personal Injury Caused by a Tort) of the Civil Code apply mutatis mutandis to the claim referred to in paragraph (1) or paragraph (3).

①Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, a principal bank must keep a register of its bank agents at its business offices (other than unmanned business offices and other business offices specified by Cabinet Office Order).

②When it is necessary, a depositor, etc. or other interested persons may make a demand to inspect the register referred to in the preceding paragraph to the principal bank.

①Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 52-36, paragraph (1), a bank, etc. (meaning a bank or a person engaged in financial services specified by Cabinet Order, and excluding a person that has obtained the registration (limited to one concerning the type of deposit, etc. intermediary business operations) referred to in Article 12 (Registration) of the Act on the Provision of Financial Services and the Development of the Accessible Environment Thereto; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) may perform bank agency services.

②If a bank, etc. performs bank agency services pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the bank, etc. is deemed to be a bank agent, and the provisions of Article 13-2, Article 24, Article 25, Article 38, Article 48, Article 52-36, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 52-39 (excluding paragraph (1) if the bank performs bank agency services) through Article 52-41, Articles 52-43 through 52-56, the preceding three Articles, Article 53, paragraph (4), Article 56 (limited to the part related to item (xi)), Article 57-7, paragraph (2), and the provisions of Chapter IX and Chapter X related to those provisions apply. In such cases, in Article 52-56, paragraph (1), the term "any of the following items" is deemed to be replaced with "item (iv) or item (v)", the phrase "revoke the license referred to in Article 52-36, paragraph (1) or order it to suspend all or part of its bank agency services by setting a due date" is deemed to be replaced with "order it to suspend all or part of its bank agency services by setting a due date", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

③A bank, etc. must submit documents stating the particulars set forth in the items of Article 52-37, paragraph (1) and the documents set forth in Article 52-37, paragraph (2), item (ii) with the Prime Minister when it seeks to engage in bank agency services.