# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第十八条の三 (Article 18-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-3. 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: 第十八条の三 (Article 18-3)（本人確認記録の作成義務等） — address `art-18-3` - 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-18-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-3 - 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. --- ### 第十八条の三（本人確認記録の作成義務等） — (Obligation to Create Identity Verification Records) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-3 **第一項** 銀行等は、本人確認を行つた場合には、直ちに、財務省令で定める方法により、本人特定事項その他の本人確認に関する事項として財務省令で定める事項に関する記録（次項において「本人確認記録」という。）を作成しなければならない。 art-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-3/par-1 Once a bank or other prescribed financial institution has verified a person's identity, it must immediately prepare a record of the identifying information and other information that Ministry of Finance Order prescribes as information related to the verification of a person's identity (referred to as an "identity verification record" in the following paragraph) by the means prescribed by Ministry of Finance Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 銀行等は、本人確認記録を、特定為替取引が終了した日その他の財務省令で定める日から、七年間保存しなければならない。 art-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-3/par-2 A bank or other prescribed financial institution must preserve an identity verification record for seven years after the day on which the specified funds transfer transaction is completed or any other such date prescribed by Ministry of Finance Order. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A bank or other prescribed financial institution must preserve an identity verification record for seven years after the day on which the specified exchange transaction is completed or any other such date prescribed by Ministry of Finance Order." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb --- ## Cites - art-18-3/par-1: 次項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の三第二項 (Article 18-3, paragraph (2)), art-18-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-3/par-2 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の三第一項（本人確認記録の作成義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-3/par-1 - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第十八条の四第一項（本人確認及び本人確認記録の作成のための是正措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-18-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-18-4/par-1 - 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 18-3, paragraph (2) — 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