# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4171-106/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-4171-106/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4171-106/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4171-106/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-4171-106/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4171-106/art-4 **第一項** 銀行（新銀行法第二条第一項に規定する銀行をいう。以下同じ。）又は長期信用銀行（第二条の規定による改正後の長期信用銀行法（以下「新長期信用銀行法」という。）第二条に規定する長期信用銀行をいう。以下同じ。）の支店その他の営業所又は代理店の設置又は廃止に関する新銀行法第八条第一項（新長期信用銀行法第十七条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、施行日以後における設置又は廃止について適用し、施行日前における設置又は廃止については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4171-106/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-4171-106/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4171-106/art-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) of the new Banking Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 17 of the new Long-Term Credit Bank Act) concerning the establishment or discontinuation of a branch office or other business offices, or an agency of a bank (meaning a bank as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the new Banking Act; the same applies hereinafter) or a long-term credit bank (meaning a long-term credit bank as defined in Article 2 of the Long-Term Credit Bank Act after the amendment pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "new Long-Term Credit Bank Act"); the same applies hereinafter) apply to the establishment or discontinuation that takes place on or after the effective date, and prior laws continue to govern the establishment or discontinuation that takes place before the effective date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4171-106/art-4/par-1: 新銀行法第二条第一項 → 銀行法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-2/par-1 - suppl-4171-106/art-4/par-1: 第二条 → e-Gov law 327AC0000000187, 第二条 (Article 2), art-2 — not held in this collection - suppl-4171-106/art-4/par-1: 新銀行法第八条第一項 → 銀行法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-8/par-1 --- ## 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