# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第五十条 (Article 50) - 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: 第五十条 (Article 50)（外国銀行に対する免許の失効） — address `art-50` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-50 - 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. --- ### 第五十条（外国銀行に対する免許の失効） — (Expiration of License for Foreign Banks) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-50 **第一項** 第四十九条第一項第三号から第六号までのいずれかに該当して同項の規定による届出（同項第三号に係る届出にあつては当該合併後当該外国銀行支店に係る外国銀行が消滅することとなる合併、当該外国銀行支店に係る事業の全部を承継させることとなる会社分割及び事業の全部の譲渡に係る届出に限るものとし、同項第四号に係る届出にあつては銀行業の一部の廃止に係る届出を除く。）があつたときは、当該届出をした外国銀行支店に係る外国銀行に対する第四条第一項の内閣総理大臣の免許は、効力を失う。 art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-50/par-1 When a foreign bank branch office files a notification under Article 49, paragraph (1) due to the fact that it falls under one of the cases of Article 49, paragraph (1), items (iii) through (vi) (for a notification under item (iii) of that paragraph, limited to a notification concerning a merger that results in the foreign bank with which the foreign bank branch office is affiliated disappearing, a company split that results in all of the business of the foreign bank branch office being succeeded to, or the transfer of all business, and for a notification under item (iv) of that paragraph, excluding a notification concerning partial discontinuation of banking), the license referred to in Article 4, paragraph (1) granted by the Prime Minister for the foreign bank with which the foreign bank branch office that files the notification is affiliated ceases to be effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-50/par-1: 第四十九条第一項第三号から第六号まで → 銀行法 第四十九条第一項第三号 (Article 49, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-49/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-49/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49/par-1/item-3 - art-50/par-1: 第四十九条第一項第三号から第六号まで → 銀行法 第四十九条第一項第四号 (Article 49, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-49/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-49/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49/par-1/item-4 - art-50/par-1: 第四十九条第一項第三号から第六号まで → 銀行法 第四十九条第一項第五号 (Article 49, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-49/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-49/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49/par-1/item-5 - art-50/par-1: 第四十九条第一項第三号から第六号まで → 銀行法 第四十九条第一項第六号 (Article 49, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-49/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-49/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49/par-1/item-6 - art-50/par-1: 同項 → 銀行法 第四十九条第一項 (Article 49, paragraph (1)), art-49/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49/par-1 - art-50/par-1: 第四条第一項 → 銀行法 第四条第一項 (Article 4, paragraph (1)), art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第五十一条第一項第二号（外国銀行支店の清算） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-51/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-51/par-1/item-2 - 銀行法 第五十六条第一項第四号（内閣総理大臣の告示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-56/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-56/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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