# 資金決済に関する法律 / Payment Services Act — 第七十条 (Article 70) - Law: 資金決済に関する法律 (Payment Services Act), 平成二十一年法律第五十九号 - English title "Payment Services 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: 第七十条 (Article 70)（資金清算業の一部の委託） — address `art-70` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-70 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-70 - 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. --- ### 第七十条（資金清算業の一部の委託） — (Partial Entrustment of Clearing Services for Interbank Funds Transfer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-70 **第一項** 資金清算機関は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、資金清算業の一部を、内閣総理大臣の承認を受けて、第三者に委託することができる。 art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-70/par-1 A clearing institution for interbank funds transfer may, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, entrust part of the clearing services for interbank funds transfer to a third party with the approval of the Prime Minister. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 資金清算機関は、前項の規定による資金清算業の一部の委託に関する契約には、業務を委託する相手方が当該業務を適正かつ確実に遂行するための措置を講ずる旨の条件を付さなければならない。 art-70/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-70/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-70/par-2 A clearing institution for interbank funds transfer must set the requirements for a contract for the partial entrustment of the clearing services for interbank funds transfer under the provisions of the preceding paragraph that the party to whom business is entrusted must take measures to conduct the business in a proper and steady manner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-70/par-2: 前項 → 資金決済に関する法律 第七十条第一項 (Article 70, paragraph (1)), art-70/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-70/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 資金決済に関する法律 第七十条第二項（資金清算業の一部の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-70/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-70/par-2 - 資金決済に関する法律 第七十四条第三項（秘密保持義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-74/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-74/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 資金決済に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/421AC0000000059/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-12 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Payment Services Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4477/tb), retrieved 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 資金決済に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-12