# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第十四条の二 (Article 14-2) - 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: 第十四条の二 (Article 14-2)（経営の健全性の確保） — address `art-14-2` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-14-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-14-2 - 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. --- ### 第十四条の二（経営の健全性の確保） — (Ensuring Sound Management) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-14-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-14-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-14-2 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、銀行の業務の健全な運営に資するため、銀行がその経営の健全性を判断するための基準として次に掲げる基準その他の基準を定めることができる。 art-14-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-14-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-14-2/par-1 In order to contribute to the sound management of a bank's services, the Prime Minister may establish the following criteria and other criteria as the criteria for a bank to use in determining the soundness of its management: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 銀行の保有する資産等に照らし当該銀行の自己資本の充実の状況が適当であるかどうかの基準 art-14-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-14-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-14-2/par-1/item-1 criteria on whether the adequacy of equity capital of the bank is appropriate in light of the assets owned by that bank, etc.; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 銀行及びその子会社その他の当該銀行と内閣府令で定める特殊の関係のある会社（以下この号、第三章及び第四章において「子会社等」という。）の保有する資産等に照らし当該銀行及びその子会社等の自己資本の充実の状況が適当であるかどうかの基準 art-14-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-14-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-14-2/par-1/item-2 criteria on whether the adequacy of equity capital of the bank, its subsidiary company, and other companies which has a unique relationship with the bank as specified by Cabinet Office Order (hereinafter referred to as a "subsidiary company, etc." in this item, Chapter III, and Chapter IV), are appropriate in light of the assets owned by the bank and its subsidiary companies, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-14-2/par-1/item-2: この号 → 銀行法 第十四条の二第一項第二号 (Article 14-2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-14-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-14-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-14-2/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第十四条の二第一項第二号（経営の健全性の確保） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-14-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-14-2/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