# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第四条の二 (Article 4-2) - 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: 第四条の二 (Article 4-2)（銀行の機関） — address `art-4-2` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-4-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-4-2 - 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. --- ### 第四条の二（銀行の機関） — (Organs of a Bank) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-4-2 **第一項** 銀行は、株式会社であつて次に掲げる機関を置くものでなければならない。 art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-4-2/par-1 A bank must be a stock company that has in place the following organs: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 取締役会 art-4-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-4-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-4-2/par-1/item-1 a board of directors; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 監査役会、監査等委員会又は指名委員会等（会社法第二条第十二号（定義）に規定する指名委員会等をいう。第五十二条の十八第二項第二号において同じ。） art-4-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-4-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-4-2/par-1/item-2 a board of company auditors, a supervisory committee, or a nominating committee, etc. (meaning a nominating committee, etc. as defined in Article 2, paragraph (12) (Definitions) of the Companies Act; the same applies in Article 52-18, paragraph (2), item (ii)); and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 会計監査人 art-4-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-4-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-4-2/par-1/item-3 a financial auditor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-4-2/par-1/item-2: 会社法第二条第十二号 → 会社法 第二条第一項第十二号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xii)), art-2/par-1/item-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-2/par-1/item-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-2/par-1/item-12 - art-4-2/par-1/item-2: 第五十二条の十八第二項第二号 → 銀行法 第五十二条の十八第二項第二号 (Article 52-18, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-52-18/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-18/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-18/par-2/item-2 ## 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