# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第五十二条の四十 (Article 52-40) - 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: 第五十二条の四十 (Article 52-40)（標識の掲示等） — address `art-52-40` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-40 - 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. --- ### 第五十二条の四十（標識の掲示等） — Posting Signs, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-52-40 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-40 **第一項** 銀行代理業者は、銀行代理業を営む営業所又は事務所ごとに、公衆の見やすい場所に、内閣府令で定める様式の標識を掲示しなければならない。 art-52-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-40/par-1 A bank agent must post a sign in the form specified by Cabinet Office Order in a place easily seen by the public at each of its business offices and other offices where the bank agent performs bank agency services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 銀行代理業者は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、商号若しくは名称又は氏名、許可番号、所属銀行の商号その他内閣府令で定める事項を電気通信回線に接続して行う自動公衆送信により公衆の閲覧に供しなければならない。ただし、その事業の規模が著しく小さい場合その他の内閣府令で定める場合は、この限りでない。 art-52-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-40/par-2 A bank agent must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, make its trade name or name or full name, permission number, the trade name of the principal bank, and other particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order available for public inspection by automatic public transmission conducted by connecting to a telecommunications line; provided, however, that this does not apply if the scale of its business is extremely small or in any other case specified by Cabinet Office Order. machine translation, not official **第三項** 銀行代理業者以外の者は、第一項の標識又はこれに類似する標識を掲示してはならない。 art-52-40/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-40/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-40/par-3 It is prohibited for a person other than a bank agent to post the sign referred to in paragraph (1) or a sign similar to the sign. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-52-40/par-3: 第一項 → 銀行法 第五十二条の四十第一項 (Article 52-40, paragraph (1)), art-52-40/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-40/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第五十二条の二の十第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-2-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-2-10/par-1 - 銀行法 第五十二条の四十第三項（標識の掲示等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-40/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-40/par-3 - 銀行法 第六十三条の三第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-63-3/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-63-3/par-1/item-3 - 銀行法 第六十三条の三第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-63-3/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-63-3/par-1/item-4 - 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch banking-act-20261012T020531-001, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11