# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第五十二条の七十七 (Article 52-77) - 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: 第五十二条の七十七 (Article 52-77)（名称の使用制限） — address `art-52-77` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-77 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-77 - 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. --- ### 第五十二条の七十七（名称の使用制限） — (Restriction on Use of Names) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-52-77 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-77 **第一項** 指定紛争解決機関でない者（金融商品取引法第百五十六条の三十九第一項の規定による指定を受けた者その他これに類する者として政令で定めるものを除く。）は、その名称又は商号中に、指定紛争解決機関と誤認されるおそれのある文字を使用してはならない。 art-52-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-77/par-1 A person that is not a designated dispute resolution organization (excluding a person that has obtained a designation under the provisions of Article 156-39, paragraph (1) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act or any other person specified by Cabinet Order as being similar to the person) must not use a word in its name or trade name which is likely to be mistaken for a designated dispute resolution organization. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-52-77/par-1: 金融商品取引法第百五十六条の三十九第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000025, 第百五十六条の三十九第一項 (Article 156-39, paragraph (1)), art-156-39/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 資金決済に関する法律 第百一条第一項（指定紛争解決機関に関する銀行法の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-101/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-101/par-1 - 銀行法 第六十七条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-67/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-67/par-1/item-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