# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第四十九条の二 (Article 49-2) - 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: 第四十九条の二 (Article 49-2)（外国銀行支店の公告方法） — address `art-49-2` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-49-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十九条の二（外国銀行支店の公告方法） — (Means of Public Notice by Foreign Bank Branch Offices) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-49-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-49-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49-2 **第一項** 外国銀行支店は、公告方法として、次に掲げる方法のいずれかを定めなければならない。 art-49-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-49-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49-2/par-1 A foreign bank branch must establish one of the following means as its means of public notice: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 時事に関する事項を掲載する日刊新聞紙に掲載する方法 art-49-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-49-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49-2/par-1/item-1 publication in a daily newspaper that publishes information about current events; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 電子公告（会社法第二条第三十四号（定義）に規定する電子公告をいう。以下同じ。） art-49-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-49-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49-2/par-1/item-2 electronic public notice (meaning electronic public notice as defined in Article 2, item (xxxiv) (Definitions) of the Companies Act; the same applies hereinafter). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 会社法第九百四十条第三項（電子公告の公告期間等）、第九百四十一条（電子公告調査）、第九百四十六条（調査の義務等）、第九百四十七条（電子公告調査を行うことができない場合）、第九百五十一条第二項（財務諸表等の備置き及び閲覧等）、第九百五十三条（改善命令）及び第九百五十五条（調査記録簿等の記載等）の規定は、外国銀行支店が電子公告によりこの法律又は他の法律の規定による公告（会社法の規定による公告を除く。）をする場合について準用する。この場合において、同法第九百四十条第三項中「前二項」とあるのは「銀行法第四十七条第二項の規定により外国銀行支店を一の銀行とみなして適用する同法第五十七条の二第一項」と読み替えるものとするほか、必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。 art-49-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-49-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49-2/par-2 The provisions of Article 940, paragraph (3) (Public Notice Period of Electronic Public Notice), Article 941 (Electronic Public Notice Investigation), Article 946 (Obligation of Investigation), Article 947 (Cases Where an Electronic Public Notice Investigation is Unable to be Carried Out), Article 951, paragraph (2) (Keeping and Inspection of Financial Statements), Article 953 (Order for Improvement), and Article 955 (Statements in an Investigation Record Book) of the Companies Act apply mutatis mutandis when a foreign bank branch office issues public notice pursuant to the provisions of this Act or any other laws (other than a public notice pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Act) by an electronic public notice. In such a case, the term "preceding two paragraphs" in Article 940, paragraph (3) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 57-2, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act as applied when the foreign bank branch office is deemed to be a single bank pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (2) of that Act", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-49-2/par-1/item-2: 会社法第二条第三十四号 → 会社法 第二条第一項第三十四号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv)), art-2/par-1/item-34 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-2/par-1/item-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-2/par-1/item-34 - art-49-2/par-2: 会社法第九百四十条第三項 → 会社法 第九百四十条第三項 (Article 940, paragraph (3)), art-940/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-940/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-940/par-3 - art-49-2/par-2: 第九百四十一条 → 会社法 第九百四十一条 (Article 941), art-941 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-941 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-941 - art-49-2/par-2: 第九百四十六条 → 会社法 第九百四十六条 (Article 946), art-946 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-946 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-946 - art-49-2/par-2: 第九百四十七条 → 会社法 第九百四十七条 (Article 947), art-947 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-947 - art-49-2/par-2: 第九百五十一条第二項 → 会社法 第九百五十一条第二項 (Article 951, paragraph (2)), art-951/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-951/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-951/par-2 - art-49-2/par-2: 第九百五十三条 → 会社法 第九百五十三条 (Article 953), art-953 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-953 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-953 - art-49-2/par-2: 第九百五十五条 → 会社法 第九百五十五条 (Article 955), art-955 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-955 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-955 - art-49-2/par-2: 前二項 → 会社法 第九百四十条第一項 (Article 940, paragraph (1)), art-940/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-940/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-940/par-1 - art-49-2/par-2: 前二項 → 会社法 第九百四十条第二項 (Article 940, paragraph (2)), art-940/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-940/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-940/par-2 - art-49-2/par-2: 銀行法第四十七条第二項 → 銀行法 第四十七条第二項 (Article 47, paragraph (2)), art-47/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47/par-2 - art-49-2/par-2: 同法第五十七条の二第一項 → 銀行法 第五十七条の二第一項 (Article 57-2, paragraph (1)), art-57-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-57-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-57-2/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百四十三条第一項第一号（欠格事由） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-943/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-943/par-1/item-1 - 銀行法 第五十二条の二の九第三項（所属外国銀行に関する届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-2-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-2-9/par-3 - 銀行法 第六十三条の三第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-63-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-63-3/par-1/item-1 - 銀行法 第六十五条第一項第十二号の二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-12-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/par-1/item-12-2 - 銀行法 第六十六条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-66/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-66/par-1/item-2 - 銀行法 第六十六条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-66/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-66/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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