# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 23) - 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: 第二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 23)（検討） — address `suppl-4131-117/art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-4131-117/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4131-117/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（検討） — (Review) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-4131-117/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-4131-117/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4131-117/art-23 **第一項** 政府は、この法律の施行後五年を経過した場合において、新銀行法、新長期信用銀行法及び新保険業法の施行状況、銀行業及び保険業を取り巻く社会経済情勢の変化等を勘案し、新銀行法第二条第十項に規定する銀行主要株主、新長期信用銀行法第十六条の二の二第五項に規定する長期信用銀行主要株主及び新保険業法第二条第十四項に規定する保険主要株主に係る制度について検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4131-117/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-4131-117/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4131-117/art-23/par-1 Once five years have passed after this Act comes into effect, the government is to take into account the implementation status of the new Banking Act, the new Long-Term Credit Bank Act, and the new Insurance Business Act and the changes in socioeconomic conditions surrounding banking and insurance businesses, review the systems related to banks' major shareholders as defined in Article 2, paragraph (10) of the new Banking Act, the major shareholders of long-term credit banks as defined in Article 16-2-2, paragraph (5) of the new Long-Term Credit Bank Act, and the major shareholders of insurance companies as defined in Article 2, paragraph (14) of the new Insurance Business Act, and take the required measures based on the results of the review if it finds this to be necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4131-117/art-23/par-1: 新銀行法第二条第十項 → 銀行法 第二条第十項 (Article 2, paragraph (10)), art-2/par-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-2/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-2/par-10 --- ## 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