# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第二十三条 (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 (Article 23)（株主等の帳簿閲覧権の否認） — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/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（株主等の帳簿閲覧権の否認） — (Denial of the Right of Shareholders to Inspect the Account Books) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-23 **第一項** 会社法第四百三十三条（会計帳簿の閲覧等の請求）の規定は、銀行の会計帳簿及びこれに関する資料については、適用しない。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-23/par-1 The provisions of Article 433 (Request to Inspect Account Books) of the Companies Act do not apply to the accounting books of a bank or materials related to them. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23/par-1: 会社法第四百三十三条 → 会社法 第四百三十三条 (Article 433), art-433 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-433 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-433 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第四十七条第二項（外国銀行の免許等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47/par-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