# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第五十二条の十六 (Article 52-16) - 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: 第五十二条の十六 (Article 52-16)（外国銀行主要株主に対する法律の適用関係） — address `art-52-16` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-16 - 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. 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. --- ### 第五十二条の十六（外国銀行主要株主に対する法律の適用関係） — (Application of the Act to Bank's Foreign Major Shareholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-52-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-16 **第一項** 銀行の主要株主基準値以上の数の議決権の保有者であつて外国人又は外国法人であるもの（以下この条において「外国銀行主要株主」という。）に対しこの法律を適用する場合における特例及び技術的読替えその他外国銀行主要株主に対するこの法律の規定の適用に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。 art-52-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-16/par-1 The special provisions and technical replacements of terms for applying this Act to the holder of a number of voting rights in a bank which is equal to or greater than the major shareholder threshold when the holder is a foreign national or foreign corporation (hereinafter referred to as a "bank's foreign major shareholder" in this Article), and other necessary matters for the application of the provisions of this Act to a bank's foreign major shareholder are specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-52-16/par-1: この条 → 銀行法 第五十二条の十六 (Article 52-16), art-52-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-16 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第五十二条の十六第一項（外国銀行主要株主に対する法律の適用関係） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-16/par-1 - 銀行法 第五十二条の二十第一項（銀行主要株主に係る規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-20/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 - This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11