# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（権限の委任） — address `suppl-4251-45/art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4251-45/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4251-45/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（権限の委任） — Delegation of Authority caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4251-45/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4251-45/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4251-45/art-16 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、この附則の規定による権限を金融庁長官に委任する。 suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-1 The Prime Minister delegates the authority under these Supplementary Provisions to the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により金融庁長官に委任された権限並びにこの附則の規定による農林水産大臣及び厚生労働大臣の権限については、政令で定めるところにより、その一部を財務局長又は財務支局長（農林水産大臣及び厚生労働大臣の権限にあっては、地方支分部局の長）に委任することができる。 suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-2 A part of the authority delegated to the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency pursuant to the preceding paragraph and a part of the authority of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under these Supplementary Provisions may be delegated to the Directors-General of Local Finance Bureaus or Local Finance Branch Bureaus (to the heads of local branch offices, for the authority of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare), pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-2: 前項 → 銀行法 附則第十六条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16, paragraph (1)), suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4251-45/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4251-45/art-1/par-1/item-3 - 銀行法 附則第十六条第二項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4251-45/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4251-45/art-16/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch banking-act-20261012T020531-005, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11