# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)（外国銀行支店に係る営業の免許に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3561-59/art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（外国銀行支店に係る営業の免許に関する経過措置） — (Transitional Measures on Business Licenses of Foreign Bank Branches) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-3561-59/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-21 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に旧法第三十二条第一項の規定により旧法第二条の主務大臣の免許を受けている者は、この法律の施行の際に新法第四十七条第一項の規定により新法第四条第一項の大蔵大臣の免許を受けたものとみなす。 suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-1 A person that has already obtained the license referred to in Article 2 of the former Act granted by the competent minister pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) of the former Act at the time this Act comes into effect is deemed to have obtained the license referred to in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the new Act granted by the Minister of Finance pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the new Act at the time this Act comes into effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により新法第四条第一項の大蔵大臣の免許を受けたものとみなされる者は、施行日から起算して三月以内に当該免許に係る外国銀行支店の代表者の氏名を大蔵大臣に届け出なければならない。 suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-2 A person that is deemed to have obtained the license referred to in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the new Act granted by the Minister of Finance pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must file a notification with the Minister of Finance indicating the name of the representative of the foreign bank branch office under that license by the last day of the three-month period that begins on the effective date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-1: 新法第四十七条第一項 → 銀行法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47/par-1 - suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-1: 新法第四条第一項 → 銀行法 第四条第一項 (Article 4, paragraph (1)), art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-4/par-1 - suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-2: 前項 → 銀行法 附則第二十一条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21, paragraph (1)), suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-1 - suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-2: 新法第四条第一項 → 銀行法 第四条第一項 (Article 4, paragraph (1)), art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 附則第二十一条第二項（外国銀行支店に係る営業の免許に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-21/par-2 - 銀行法 附則第二十七条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-3561-59/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-3561-59/art-27/par-1 --- ## 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