# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - Law: 銀行法 (Banking Act), 昭和五十六年法律第五十九号 - English title "Banking Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十二条 (Article 12) — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-12 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十二条 art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-12 **第一項** 銀行は、前二条の規定により営む業務及び担保付社債信託法その他の法律により営む業務のほか、他の業務を営むことができない。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-12/par-1 A bank may not perform services other than those it conducts pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two Articles and those it conducts pursuant to the provisions of the Secured Bond Trust Act or other laws. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-12/par-1: 前二条 → 銀行法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-10 - art-12/par-1: 前二条 → 銀行法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-11 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第六十五条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/par-1/item-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 銀行法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/356AC0000000059/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Banking Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4498/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11