# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-5031-46/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-5031-46/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-5031-46/art-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三条 suppl-5031-46/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-5031-46/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-5031-46/art-3 **第一項** 新銀行法第十六条の二第四項、第十三項（銀行が、現に子会社としている同条第一項各号に掲げる会社を当該各号のうち他の号に掲げる会社（同条第四項に規定する子会社対象銀行等に限る。）に該当する子会社としようとするときに係る部分を除く。）及び第十六項の規定は、この法律の施行の際現に銀行が旧銀行法第十六条の二第七項（同条第九項において準用する場合を含む。）、第八項ただし書又は第十項の規定による認可を受けて当該銀行又はその子会社が同条第一項第十二号の三に掲げる会社の議決権（銀行法第二条第六項に規定する議決権をいう。附則第六条において同じ。）を合算してその基準議決権数（旧銀行法第十六条の四第一項に規定する基準議決権数をいう。）を超えて保有している場合における当該会社については、適用しない。 suppl-5031-46/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-5031-46/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-5031-46/art-3/par-1 The provisions of Article 16-2, paragraph (4), paragraph (13) (excluding the portion pertaining to the case where a bank seeks to make a company set forth in the items of paragraph (1) of that Article that it actually has as its subsidiary company a subsidiary company that falls under a company set forth in another of those items (limited to a bank, etc. eligible to be a subsidiary company prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article)) and paragraph (16) of the new Banking Act do not apply to a company set forth in Article 16-2, paragraph (1), item (xii)-3 of the former Banking Act in the case where, at the time this Act comes into effect, a bank has actually obtained the authorization under the provisions of Article 16-2, paragraph (7) of the former Banking Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (9) of that Article), the proviso to paragraph (8) of that Article, or paragraph (10) of that Article, and the bank or its subsidiary company holds voting rights in that company (meaning voting rights prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) of the Banking Act; the same applies in Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions), when combined, in excess of the maximum threshold for voting rights (meaning the maximum threshold for voting rights prescribed in Article 16-4, paragraph (1) of the former Banking Act). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5031-46/art-3/par-1: 新銀行法第十六条の二第四項 → 銀行法 第十六条の二第四項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (4)), art-16-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16-2/par-4 - suppl-5031-46/art-3/par-1: 第十三項 → 銀行法 第十六条の二第十三項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (13)), art-16-2/par-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16-2/par-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16-2/par-13 - suppl-5031-46/art-3/par-1: 同条第一項 → 銀行法 第十六条の二第一項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (1)), art-16-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16-2/par-1 - suppl-5031-46/art-3/par-1: 第十六項 → 銀行法 第十六条の二第十六項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (16)), art-16-2/par-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-16-2/par-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-16-2/par-16 - suppl-5031-46/art-3/par-1: 銀行法第二条第六項 → 銀行法 第二条第六項 (Article 2, paragraph (6)), art-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-2/par-6 - suppl-5031-46/art-3/par-1: 附則第六条 → 銀行法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-5031-46/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-5031-46/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-5031-46/art-6 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 附則第二条第一項（銀行法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/suppl-5031-46/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-5031-46/art-2/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch banking-act-20261012T020531-008, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11