# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) - 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59)（権限の委任） — address `art-59` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条（権限の委任） — (Delegation of Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-59 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、この法律による権限（政令で定めるものを除く。）を金融庁長官に委任する。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-59/par-1 The Prime Minister delegates the authority under this Act (excluding the authority specified by Cabinet Order) to the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 金融庁長官は、政令で定めるところにより、前項の規定により委任された権限の一部を財務局長又は財務支局長に委任することができる。 art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-59/par-2 The Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency may delegate part of the authority delegated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph to the Directors-General of Local Finance Bureaus or Local Finance Branch Bureaus, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-59/par-2: 前項 → 銀行法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-59/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第五十九条第二項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-59/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