# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第四十八条 (Article 48) - 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（外国銀行支店の資料の提出等） — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（外国銀行支店の資料の提出等） — (Submission of Materials by Foreign Bank Branch Office) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-48 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、外国銀行支店の業務の健全かつ適切な運営を確保するため必要があると認めるときは、外国銀行支店（当該外国銀行支店を所属銀行とする銀行代理業者を含む。）に対し、外国銀行支店に係る外国銀行（当該外国銀行と政令で定める特殊の関係のある者を含む。）の業務又は財産の状況に関する報告又は資料の提出を求めることができる。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-48/par-1 When the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of the services of a foreign bank branch office, the Prime Minister may request a foreign bank branch office (including a bank agent that has that foreign bank branch office as its principal bank) to make a report or submit materials on the status of business or property of the foreign bank with which the foreign bank branch office is affiliated (including a person that has a unique relationship specified by Cabinet Order with that foreign bank). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第五十二条の六十の二第二項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-60-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-60-2/par-2 - 銀行法 第六十五条第一項第十二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/par-1/item-12 - 銀行法 附則第二十二条第一項（外国銀行支店の資料の提出等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-22/par-1 - 銀行法 附則第二条第二項（銀行法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-4171-106/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4171-106/art-2/par-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