# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)

- 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（同一人に対する信用の供与に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3561-59/art-6`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-6
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-6
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### 第六条（同一人に対する信用の供与に関する経過措置） — (Transitional Measures for Granting Credit to a Single Person)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>suppl-3561-59/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  新法第十三条第一項本文の規定は、この法律の施行の際現に同一人に対する同項本文に規定する信用の供与が同項本文に規定する信用供与限度額を超えている旧法の免許を受けた銀行の当該信用の供与については、施行日から起算して三月間は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-3561-59/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-6/par-1</sup>
The main clause of Article 13, paragraph (1) of the new Act does not apply, for the three-month period that begins on the effective date, to the granting of credit by a bank licensed under the former Act, if, at the time this Act comes into effect, the credit granted to a single person as prescribed in the main clause of that paragraph exceeds the credit limit prescribed in the main clause of that paragraph.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  新法第十三条の規定は、外国銀行支店については、施行日から起算して五年間は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-3561-59/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-6/par-2</sup>
The provisions of Article 13 of the new Act do not apply to a foreign bank branch office for five years after the effective date.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3561-59/art-6/par-1: 新法第十三条第一項 → 銀行法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-13/par-1
- suppl-3561-59/art-6/par-2: 新法第十三条 → 銀行法 第十三条 (Article 13), art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-13

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 銀行法 附則第二十七条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-27/par-1

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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-20261012T020531-003, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11
