# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第二十九条 (Article 29) - 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29)（資産の国内保有） — address `art-29` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-29 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-29 - 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. --- ### 第二十九条（資産の国内保有） — (Retention of Assets in Japan) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-29 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、預金者等の保護その他公益のため必要があると認めるときは、その必要の限度において、政令で定めるところにより、銀行に対し、その資産のうち政令で定めるものを国内において保有することを命ずることができる。 art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-29/par-1 If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for protecting depositors, etc. or for public interest, the Prime Minister, to the extent necessary, may order a bank to retain the part of its assets specified by Cabinet Order in Japan, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第六十三条第一項第三号の二 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-63/par-1/item-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-63/par-1/item-3-2 --- ## 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