# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第四十七条の三 (Article 47-3) - 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: 第四十七条の三 (Article 47-3)（従たる外国銀行支店の設置等） — address `art-47-3` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-47-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47-3 - 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. 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. --- ### 第四十七条の三（従たる外国銀行支店の設置等） — (Establishment of a Secondary Foreign Bank Branch Office) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-47-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-47-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47-3 **第一項** 外国銀行支店は、従たる外国銀行支店の設置、種類の変更又は廃止をしようとするときは、内閣府令で定める場合を除き、内閣府令で定めるところにより、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 art-47-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-47-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47-3/par-1 Except in cases specified by Cabinet Office Order, a foreign bank branch office must obtain the authorization by the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order when it seeks to establish a secondary foreign bank branch office, change the type of the branch office, or close the branch office. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第六十五条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/par-1/item-1 - 銀行法 第六十五条第一項第二十号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/par-1/item-20 --- ## 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