# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第七条 (Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（取締役等の兼職の制限） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（取締役等の兼職の制限） — (Restriction on the Concurrent Holding of Positions by Directors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-7 **第一項** 銀行の常務に従事する取締役（指名委員会等設置会社にあつては、執行役）は、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けた場合を除くほか、他の会社の常務に従事してはならない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-7/par-1 A director (or, an executive officer, if the bank is a company with nominating committee, etc.) who is engaged in the day-to-day operations of a bank must not engage in the day-to-day operations of any other company without the authorization by the Prime Minister. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 内閣総理大臣は、前項の認可の申請があつたときは、当該申請に係る事項が当該銀行の業務の健全かつ適切な運営を妨げるおそれがないと認める場合でなければ、これを認可してはならない。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-7/par-2 When an application is filed for the authorization referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister must not grant the authorization unless the Prime Minister finds that the particulars given in the application are unlikely to interfere with the sound and appropriate management of the bank's services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-7/par-2: 前項 → 銀行法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-7/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第七条第二項（取締役等の兼職の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-7/par-2 - 銀行法 第六十五条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/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