# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（臨時休業等） — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十六条（臨時休業等） — (Temporary Suspension of Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16 **第一項** 銀行は、内閣府令で定める場合を除き、天災その他のやむを得ない理由によりその営業所において臨時にその業務の全部又は一部を休止するときは、直ちにその旨を、理由を付して内閣総理大臣に届け出るとともに、公告し、かつ、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該営業所の店頭に掲示しなければならない。銀行が臨時にその業務の全部又は一部を休止した営業所においてその業務の全部又は一部を再開するときも、同様とする。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-1 Except in cases specified by Cabinet Office Order, if a bank temporarily suspends all or part of services at its business office due to a natural disaster or any other compelling reasons, it must immediately file a notification with the Prime Minister of that fact with the reasons attached, as well as issue public notice of that fact and post the fact at that business office, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. The same applies if a bank resumes all or part of its services at a business office where it has temporarily suspended all or part of its services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、第五十七条の規定により公告方法として同条第一号に掲げる方法を定めている銀行は、同項の規定によるもののほか、内閣府令で定めるところにより、同項の規定による掲示の内容を電気通信回線に接続して行う自動公衆送信（公衆によつて直接受信されることを目的として公衆からの求めに応じ自動的に送信を行うことをいい、放送又は有線放送に該当するものを除く。以下同じ。）により公衆の閲覧に供しなければならない。 art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, a bank 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 that paragraph, make the content of the posting pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph available for public inspection by automatic public transmission (meaning transmission made automatically in response to a request from the public for the purpose of being received directly by the public, excluding that which falls under broadcasting or cable broadcasting; the same applies hereinafter) conducted by connecting to a telecommunications line. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前二項の規定にかかわらず、銀行の無人の営業所において臨時にその業務の全部又は一部を休止する場合その他の内閣府令で定める場合については、第一項の規定による公告及び前項の規定による閲覧に供する措置は、することを要しない。 art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-3 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the public notice pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) and the measures to make it available for public inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are not required if a bank temporarily suspends all or part of its services at an unmanned business office, and in any other case specified by Cabinet Office Order. machine translation, not official **第四項** 第一項の規定にかかわらず、銀行の無人の営業所において臨時にその業務の一部を休止する場合その他の内閣府令で定める場合については、同項の規定による店頭の掲示は、することを要しない。 art-16/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-4 Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), the posting at the business office pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is not required if a bank temporarily suspends part of its services at an unmanned business office or in any other case specified by Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16/par-2: 前項 → 銀行法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-1 - art-16/par-2: 第五十七条 → 銀行法 第五十七条 (Article 57), art-57 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-57 - art-16/par-2: 同条第一号 → 銀行法 第五十七条第一項第一号 (Article 57, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-57/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-57/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-57/par-1/item-1 - art-16/par-3: 前二項 → 銀行法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-1 - art-16/par-3: 前二項 → 銀行法 第十六条第二項 (Article 16, paragraph (2)), art-16/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-2 - art-16/par-4: 第一項 → 銀行法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第七条の三第一項（役員等の第三者に対する損害賠償責任の規定の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-7-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-7-3/par-1 - 銀行法 第十六条第二項（臨時休業等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-2 - 銀行法 第十六条第三項（臨時休業等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-3 - 銀行法 第十六条第四項（臨時休業等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16/par-4 - 銀行法 第五十七条の二第一項第二号（電子公告による公告をする期間等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-57-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-57-2/par-1/item-2 - 銀行法 第五十七条の二第一項第三号（電子公告による公告をする期間等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-57-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-57-2/par-1/item-3 - 銀行法 第五十七条の三第一項（電子公告調査の規定の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-57-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-57-3/par-1 - 銀行法 第六十五条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/par-1/item-4 - 銀行法 附則第八条第一項（臨時休業等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-8/par-1 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch banking-act-20261012T020531-001, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11