# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第三十八条 (Article 38) - 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: 第三十八条 (Article 38)（廃業等の公告等） — address `art-38` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-38 - 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. --- ### 第三十八条（廃業等の公告等） — (Public Notice of Business Discontinuation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-38 **第一項** 銀行は、前条第一項の認可を受けたときは、内閣府令で定めるところにより、直ちに、その旨及び当該認可を受けた事項の内容を公告するとともに、当該銀行を所属銀行とする銀行代理業者に通知し、かつ、一月を下らない期間、全ての営業所の公衆の目につきやすい場所に掲示しなければならない。 art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-38/par-1 Upon obtaining the authorization referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, a bank must immediately issue public notice of this and the content of the particulars which has obtained the authorization, as well as notify bank agents that have that bank as their principal bank to that effect and post a notice to that effect in a place easily seen by the public at all of its business offices for a period of not less than one month, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、第五十七条の規定により公告方法として同条第一号に掲げる方法を定めている銀行は、同項の規定によるもののほか、内閣府令で定めるところにより、同項の期間、同項の規定による掲示の内容を電気通信回線に接続して行う自動公衆送信により公衆の閲覧に供しなければならない。 art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-38/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, a bank that, pursuant to the provisions of Article 57, has established the method set forth in item (i) of that Article as its means of giving public notice must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order and in addition to what is done pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, make the content of the posting pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph available for public inspection by automatic public transmission conducted by connecting to a telecommunications line during the period referred to in that paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-38/par-1: 前条第一項 → 銀行法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-37/par-1 - art-38/par-2: 前項 → 銀行法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-38/par-1 - art-38/par-2: 第五十七条 → 銀行法 第五十七条 (Article 57), art-57 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-57 - art-38/par-2: 同条第一号 → 銀行法 第五十七条第一項第一号 (Article 57, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-57/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-57/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-57/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第七条の三第一項（役員等の第三者に対する損害賠償責任の規定の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-7-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-7-3/par-1 - 銀行法 第三十八条第二項（廃業等の公告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-38/par-2 - 銀行法 第四十二条第一項（免許の取消し等の場合のみなし銀行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-42/par-1 - 銀行法 第五十二条の四十八第一項（所属銀行の廃業等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-48/par-1 - 銀行法 第五十二条の六十の二第二項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-60-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-60-2/par-2 - 銀行法 第六十五条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/par-1/item-4 - 銀行法 附則第十五条第一項（廃業等の公告等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-15/par-1 - 銀行法 附則第二条第二項（銀行法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4171-106/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4171-106/art-2/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch banking-act-20261012T020531-001, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11