# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

- 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4281-62/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4281-62/art-3
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### 第三条
<sup>suppl-4281-62/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4281-62/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4281-62/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に第一条の規定による改正前の銀行法第五十二条の二第一項の認可を受けて同項に規定する外国銀行代理業務を営んでいる銀行は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）から起算して三月を経過する日までに新銀行法第五十二条の二第一項に規定する所属外国銀行が属する同条第二項に規定する外国銀行グループについて内閣総理大臣に届け出たときは、当該外国銀行グループについて同項の認可を受けた銀行とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4281-62/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4281-62/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4281-62/art-3/par-1</sup>
A bank that, at the time this Act comes into effect, has obtained the authorization under Article 52-2, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act as before the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 and is actually engaged in the foreign bank agency services prescribed in that paragraph, is, if it has notified the Prime Minister, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, by the day on which three months have elapsed from the day this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "effective date"), of the foreign bank group prescribed in paragraph (2) of Article 52-2 of the new Banking Act to which the principal foreign bank prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article belongs, deemed to be a bank that has obtained the authorization under paragraph (2) of that Article for that foreign bank group.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4281-62/art-3/par-1: 新銀行法第五十二条の二第一項 → 銀行法 第五十二条の二第一項 (Article 52-2, paragraph (1)), art-52-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-2/par-1
- suppl-4281-62/art-3/par-1: 同条第二項 → 銀行法 第五十二条の二第二項 (Article 52-2, paragraph (2)), art-52-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-2/par-2

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 銀行法 附則第二条第一項（銀行法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4281-62/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4281-62/art-2/par-1
- 銀行法 附則第六条第一項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/suppl-4281-62/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/suppl-4281-62/art-6/par-1

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## 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
