# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 外国為替及び外国貿易法 (Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act), 昭和二十四年法律第二百二十八号 - English title "Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade 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: 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2)（確認のための是正措置等） — address `art-17-2` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十七条の二（確認のための是正措置等） — (Measures to Rectify Confirmation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-2 **第一項** 財務大臣は、銀行等が前条の規定に違反してその顧客の支払等に係る為替取引を行い、又は当該為替取引（第五十五条の九の二第二項第三号に掲げるものを除く。）を行うおそれがあると認めるときは、当該銀行等に対し、前条の確認が適切に行われるための措置をとることを命ずることができる。 art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-2/par-1 If the Minister of Finance finds that a bank or other prescribed financial institution is conducting or is likely to conduct a funds transfer transaction (excluding those stated in Article 55-9-2, paragraph (2), item (iii)), in violation of the provisions of the preceding Article, involving a payment being made or received by its customer, the minister may order it to take measures to ensure that it properly implements the confirmations referred to in the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the Minister of Finance finds that a bank or other prescribed financial institution is conducting or is likely to conduct an exchange transaction (excluding those stated in Article 55-9-2 paragraphs (2) item (iii)), in violation of the provisions of the preceding Article, involving a payment be made or received by its customer, the minister may order it to take measures to ensure that it properly implements the confirmations referred to in proceeding Article." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb **第二項** 財務大臣は、前項の規定による命令を銀行等に対してする場合において必要があると認めるときは、同項の措置がとられるまでの間、当該銀行等に対し外国為替取引に係る業務の全部若しくは一部の停止を命じ、又は当該銀行等の当該業務の内容を制限することができる。 art-17-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-2/par-2 If the Minister of Finance finds it to be necessary to do so when issuing an order to a bank or other prescribed financial institution pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the minister may order the bank or other prescribed financial institution to fully or partially suspend its business involving a foreign exchange transaction or restrict the content of its business, until the measures referred to in that paragraph are taken. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-17-2/par-1: 前条 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17 - art-17-2/par-1: 第五十五条の九の二第二項第三号 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の九の二第二項第三号 (Article 55-9-2, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-55-9-2/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-9-2/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-9-2/par-2/item-3 - art-17-2/par-2: 前項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条の二第一項 (Article 17-2, paragraph (1)), art-17-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-2/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条の二第二項（確認のための是正措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-2/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条の三第一項（資金移動業者への準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-3/par-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条の四第一項（電子決済手段等取引業者等への準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-4/par-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十七条の四第二項（電子決済手段等取引業者等への準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-17-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-17-4/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の九の四第三項（勧告及び命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-9-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-9-4/par-3 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第七十条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-70/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-70/par-1/item-5 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 附則第四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/suppl-5041-97/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/suppl-5041-97/art-4/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (外国為替及び外国貿易法), Article 17-2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 225 — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05