# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第五十二条の三十一 (Article 52-31) - 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: 第五十二条の三十一 (Article 52-31)（銀行持株会社等による報告又は資料の提出） — address `art-52-31` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-31 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十二条の三十一（銀行持株会社等による報告又は資料の提出） — (Making Reports or Submitting Materials by Bank Holding Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-52-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-31 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、銀行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、当該銀行を子会社とする銀行持株会社に対し、当該銀行の業務又は財産の状況に関し参考となるべき報告又は資料の提出を求めることができる。 art-52-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-31/par-1 If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of a bank's services, the Prime Minister may request the bank holding company that has a bank as its subsidiary company to report or submit materials that are to serve as a reference for the status of business and property of that bank. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 内閣総理大臣は、第二十四条第一項の規定により銀行に対して報告又は資料の提出を求め、及び前項の規定により当該銀行を子会社とする銀行持株会社に対して報告又は資料の提出を求める場合において、特に必要があると認めるときは、その必要の限度において、当該銀行持株会社の子法人等（子会社その他銀行持株会社がその経営を支配している法人として内閣府令で定めるものをいい、当該銀行を除く。次項並びに次条第二項及び第五項において同じ。）又は当該銀行持株会社から業務の委託を受けた者（その者から委託（二以上の段階にわたる委託を含む。）を受けた者を含む。次項並びに次条第二項及び第五項において同じ。）に対し、当該銀行又は当該銀行持株会社の業務又は財産の状況に関し参考となるべき報告又は資料の提出を求めることができる。 art-52-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-31/par-2 If the Prime Minister requests a bank to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) or requests the bank holding company that has the bank as its subsidiary company to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and finds it to be particularly necessary, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, ask the subsidiary corporation, etc. of that bank holding company (meaning a subsidiary company or a corporation specified by Cabinet Office Order as a corporation whose management is controlled by that bank holding company, and excluding the bank in question; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraphs (2) and (5) of the following Article) or the person that a bank holding company has entrusted with its services (including a person further entrusted by that entrusted person (including entrustment at two or more degrees of separation from the original entrustment); the same applies in the following paragraph, and paragraphs (2) and (5) of the following Article) to make a report or submit materials that are to serve as a reference for the status of business or property of that bank or bank holding company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 銀行持株会社の子法人等又は当該銀行持株会社から業務の委託を受けた者は、正当な理由があるときは、前項の規定による報告又は資料の提出を拒むことができる。 art-52-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-31/par-3 The subsidiary corporation, etc. of a bank holding company or the person that a bank holding company has entrusted with its services may refuse to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph if it has legitimate grounds for doing so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-52-31/par-2: 第二十四条第一項 → 銀行法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-24/par-1 - art-52-31/par-2: 前項 → 銀行法 第五十二条の三十一第一項 (Article 52-31, paragraph (1)), art-52-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-31/par-1 - art-52-31/par-2: 次項 → 銀行法 第五十二条の三十一第三項 (Article 52-31, paragraph (3)), art-52-31/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-31/par-3 - art-52-31/par-2: 次条第二項 → 銀行法 第五十二条の三十二第二項 (Article 52-32, paragraph (2)), art-52-32/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-32/par-2 - art-52-31/par-2: 第五項 → 銀行法 第五十二条の三十二第五項 (Article 52-32, paragraph (5)), art-52-32/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-32/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-32/par-5 - art-52-31/par-3: 前項 → 銀行法 第五十二条の三十一第二項 (Article 52-31, paragraph (2)), art-52-31/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-31/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第五十二条の三十一第二項（銀行持株会社等による報告又は資料の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-31/par-2 - 銀行法 第五十二条の三十一第三項（銀行持株会社等による報告又は資料の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-31/par-3 - 銀行法 第五十二条の三十二第五項（銀行持株会社等に対する立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-32/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-32/par-5 - 銀行法 第六十三条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-63/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-63/par-1/item-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