# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第三十六条 (Article 36) - 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: 第三十六条 (Article 36)（会社分割又は事業の譲渡の公告等） — address `art-36` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-36 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条（会社分割又は事業の譲渡の公告等） — (Public Notice of Company Split or Business Transfer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-36 **第一項** 銀行は、会社分割により事業の全部若しくは一部を承継させ、又は事業の全部若しくは一部を譲渡したときは、遅滞なくその旨を公告しなければならない。 art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-36/par-1 If a bank has all or part of its business succeeded to in a company split or transfers all or part of its business, the bank must issue public notice of this without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** その公告方法が第五十七条第一号に掲げる方法である銀行が前項の規定による公告をしたときは、当該公告をした銀行の債務者に対して民法第四百六十七条（債権の譲渡の対抗要件）の規定による確定日付のある証書による通知があつたものとみなす。この場合においては、当該公告の日付をもつて確定日付とする。 art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-36/par-2 If a bank whose means of public notice is the means set forth in Article 57, item (i) issues public notice pursuant to the preceding paragraph, notice is deemed to have been given to the debtors of the bank issuing that public notice, through an instrument bearing a fixed date pursuant to the provisions of Article 467 (Requirement of Perfection upon Assignment of Claim) of the Civil Code. In such a case, the date of the public notice is deemed to be the fixed date. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a bank whose means of public notice is the means set forth in Article 57, item (i) issues public notice pursuant to the preceding paragraph, notice is deemed to have been given to the creditors of the bank issuing that public notice, through an instrument bearing a fixed date pursuant to the provisions of Article 467 (Requirement of Perfection upon Assignment of Claim) of the Civil Code. In such a case, the date of the public notice is deemed to be the fixed date." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4498/tb --- ## Cites - art-36/par-2: 第五十七条第一号 → 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-36/par-2: 前項 → 銀行法 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-36/par-1 - art-36/par-2: 民法第四百六十七条 → 民法 第四百六十七条 (Article 467), art-467 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-467 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-467 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第三十六条第二項（会社分割又は事業の譲渡の公告等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-36/par-2 - 銀行法 第四十二条第一項（免許の取消し等の場合のみなし銀行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-42/par-1 - 銀行法 第四十七条第二項（外国銀行の免許等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47/par-2 - 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 附則第十四条第二項（営業等の譲渡又は譲受けに伴う手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-14/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-12 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Banking Act (銀行法), Article 36, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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