# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-2. 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: 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2)（銀行等の免責） — address `art-18-2` - 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-18-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-2 - 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. --- ### 第十八条の二（銀行等の免責） — (Exemption of Banks and Other Prescribed Financial Institutions from Performance of Obligations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-2 **第一項** 銀行等は、顧客又は代表者等が特定為替取引を行う際に本人確認に応じないときは、当該顧客又は代表者等がこれに応ずるまでの間、当該特定為替取引に係る義務の履行を拒むことができる。 art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-2/par-1 If a customer or a representative or other responsible party does not comply with an identity verification when conducting a specified funds transfer transaction, a bank or other prescribed financial institution may refuse to perform its obligation in the specified funds transfer transaction until the customer or the representative or other responsible party complies with this. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a customer or a representative or other responsible party does not comply with an identity verification when conducting a specified exchange transaction, a bank or other prescribed financial institution may refuse to perform its obligation in the specified exchange transaction until the customer or the representative or other responsible party complies with this." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条第二項（銀行等の本人確認義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の五第一項（資金移動業者への準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-5/par-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の六第一項（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-18-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-6/par-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の六第二項（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-18-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-6/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第二十二条の二第二項（銀行等その他の金融機関等の本人確認義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-22-2/par-2 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第二十二条の三第一項（両替業務を行う者への準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-22-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-22-3/par-1 --- ## 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 18-2, 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