# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第五十二条の四十八 (Article 52-48)

- 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: 第五十二条の四十八 (Article 52-48)（所属銀行の廃業等） — address `art-52-48`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-48
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-48
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### 第五十二条の四十八（所属銀行の廃業等） — (Principal Bank's Discontinuation of Business)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-52-48 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-48</sup>

  **第一項**  銀行代理業者は、所属銀行から第三十八条第一項の通知を受けたときは、その通知を受けた内容を、内閣府令で定めるところにより、一月を下らない期間、当該所属銀行に係る銀行代理業を営む全ての営業所又は事務所の公衆の目につきやすい場所に掲示するとともに、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を除き、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。
  <sup>art-52-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-48/par-1</sup>
  When a bank agent receives a notification referred to in Article 38, paragraph (1) from its principal bank, the bank agent must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, post the content of the notification received in a place easily seen by the public at all of the business offices and other offices where it performs bank agency services for that principal bank, for a period of not less than one month, as well as make it available for public inspection by automatic public transmission conducted by connecting to a telecommunications line, except where the scale of its business is extremely small or in any other case specified by Cabinet Office Order.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-52-48/par-1: 第三十八条第一項 → 銀行法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-38/par-1

## Cited by

3 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四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/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

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## 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
