# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第五十二条の五十五 (Article 52-55) - 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: 第五十二条の五十五 (Article 52-55)（業務改善命令等） — address `art-52-55` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-55 - 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. --- ### 第五十二条の五十五（業務改善命令等） — (Business Improvement Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-52-55 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-55 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、銀行代理業者の業務又は財産の状況に照らして、当該銀行代理業者の銀行代理業の健全かつ適切な運営を確保するため必要があると認めるときは、当該銀行代理業者に対し、その必要の限度において、業務の内容及び方法の変更その他監督上必要な措置を命ずることができる。 art-52-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-55/par-1 If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of bank agency services by a bank agent in light of the status of business or property of that bank agent, the Prime Minister may order the bank agent to change their business content or business methods and order other measures that are necessary for supervision, to the extent necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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十号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/par-1/item-10 - 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 - This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11