Article 18. The financial institutions shall make the final disposition of the old account, as prescribed in this Chapter, in cases coming under either of the following items:
1. In case the amount in sub-item (1) below exceeds the amount in sub-item (2) below at the hour designated by the competent Minister pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, Paragraph 1, as a result of the appraisal stipulated in said paragraph, and such excessive amount exceeds the amount obtained by multiplying the total amount of assets of the old account by a ratio determined by the competent Minister.
(1) The sum total of the profit from appraisal on the old account stipulated in Article 8, Paragraph 1 and other profits and reserves (hereinafter including special reserves and all other reserves irrespective of what they are called excluding reserves stipulated in Article 65 of the Insurance Business Law).
(2) The sum total of the loss from appraisal on the old account stipulated in Article 8, Paragraph 1 and other losses and carried-over losses.
2. In case the definite standard of appraisal has been determined for the assets and liabilities of the old account and the assets and liabilities at the designated hour of the new account prescribed by Ordinance.
Article 19. In a case coming under item 1 of the preceding Article where the sum total of the amount of profit from appraisal on the old account stipulated in Article 8, Paragraph 1 and other profirs (hereafter called "provisional profit" ) exceeds the amount in item 1, sub-item (2) of the preceding Article (hereafter called "provisional loss" ), the financial institution shall complete the final disposition of the old account with the written approval of the competent Minister, as provided for by Ordinance.
If, in this case, the provisional profit is larger than the provisional loss, such excessive amount shall be set aside as a special reserve of the old account.
Article 20. In a case coming under item 1 of Article 18 where the provisional profit is less than the provisional loss, the financial institution shall absorb this provisional loss in the order prescribed in the following items:
1. The full amount of the provisional profit shall be appropriated to absorb the provisional loss:
2. The remaining loss shall be successively absorbed in the following order:the reserves of the old account, the special reserves (hereinafter referring to the special reserves stipulated in the Law regarding the Emergency Measures for the Account of Financial Institutions and in this Law), voluntary reserves other than reserves for retirement allowances, reserves for retirement allowances and reserves prescribed in other Laws and Ordinances (excluding those prescribed in the Law regarding the Emergency Measures for Accounts of Financial Institutions).
In case there are two or more different kinds of reserves which are of the same priority in item 2 of the preceding paragraph, they shall be appropriated at an equal rate to absorb the losses.
In case the provisional loss has been absorbed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the financial institutions shall complete the final disposition of the old account with the written approval of the competent Minister.
Article 21. In cases coming under Article 18, item 2, the financial institution shall prepare and submit, as prescribed by Ordinance, to the competent Minister before the date designated by the competent Minister an inventory, a balance sheet for each account separately and a profit and loss statement for the old account of the assets and liabilities of the old account at the end of the month in which falls the day prescribed in Article 18, item 2 and the assets and liabilities at the designated hour of the new account.
Article 22. The financial institution, when preparing the inventory, the balance sheet and the profit and loss statement pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, shall, as prescribed by Ordinance, enter the necessary expenses for the final disposition of the old account as a fund earmarked for final disposition expenses.
Article 23. In any case coming under any of the following items at the end of the month prescribed in Article 21, the financial institution shall complete the final disposition of the old account, with the written approval of the competent Minister as prescribed by Ordinance.
1. In case there is no final profit (hereinafter referring to the sum total of the profit from appraisal prescribed in Article 10 Paragraph 2 and Article 11 and other profits of the old account) or final loss (hereinafter referring to the loss from appraisal prescribed in Article 10, Paragraph 2 and Article 11 carried over losses and other losses of the old account);
2. In cash there are both a final profit and a final loss and they are of equal amount;
3. In case there is a final profit but no final loss;
4. In case there are both a final profit and a final loss and the final profit is larger than the final loss.
In case of item 3 of the preceding paragraph, the amount of the final profit shall be entered as a special reserve of the old account, and in case of paragraph item 4, the amount of the final profit in excess of the final loss shall be entered as a special reserve of the old account.
Article 24. If at the end of the month prescribed in Article 21, there is a final loss but no final profit in the old account or there are both a final profit and a final loss and the amount of the final loss is larger than that of the final profit, the amount of final loss to be liquidated and absorbed shall be calculated by the financial institutions in the order of the following items:
1. The total amount of the final profit shall be appropriated to absorb the final loss;
2. If there be no final profit, the reserves of the old account shall be appropriated to absorb the whole of the final loss as if there be any balance left out of the final loss after absorption pursuant to the preceding item, the reserves of the old account shall be appropriated to absorb the balance of the final loss;
3. If there be any balance leftout of the final loss after absorption pursuant to the preceding item, the final loss shall be absorbed, so far as any loss remains, up to 90 per cent of the amount of the capital in the old account by the stockholders (hereinafter including those who contributed funds);
4. If there be any balance left out of the final loss after absorption pursuant to the preceding item, the final loss shall be absorbed, so far as any loss remains, out of the liabilities without preference (hereafter to Article 25 inclusive referring to those including such transferred from the old account to the new account or new financial institution pursuant to the provisions of Article 13, Paragraph 1, Article 14, Paragraph 1 or Article 15, Paragraph 1 and excluding such prescribed by Ordinance) up to 70 per cent of the amount of deposits of juridical persons (hereinafter including unincorporated associations or foundations) in excess of 5,000,000 yen per account, by the depositors of such deposits;
5. If there be any balance left out of the final loss after absorption pursuant to the preceding item, the final loss shall be absorbed, so far as any loss remains, out of the liabilities without preference up to 50 percent of the amount of deposits of juridical persons in excess of 1,000,000 yen but not more than 5,000,000 yen per account, by the depositors of such deposits;
6. If there be any balance left out of the final loss after absorption pursuant to the preceding item, the final loss shall be absorbed, so far as any loss remains, out of the liabiliiies without preference up to 30 per cent of the amount of deposits of juridical persons in excess of 100,000 yen but not more than 1,000,000 yen per account, by the depositors of such deposits;
7. If there be any balance left out of the final loss after absorption pursuant to the previous item, the final loss shall be absorbed, so far as any loss remains, out of the liabilities without preference up to 70 per cent of the deposits of juridical persons which remain pursuant to the preceding three items and the other liabilities without preference, by such depositors or creditors of such liabilities;
8. If there be any balance left out of the final loss after absorption pursuant to the preceding item, the final loss shall be absorbed, so far as any loss remains, up to the balance of capital remaining after application of item 3 by the stock-holders;
9. If there be any balance left out of the final loss after absorption pursuant to the preceding item, the final loss shall be absorbed, so far as any loss remains, up to the balance of the liabilities without preference remaining after application of the provisions of item 7, by the creditors of such liabilities;
10. If there be any balance left out of the final loss after absorption pursuant to the preceding item, the final loss shall be absorbed, so far as any loss remains, by the creditors of designated liabilities, in the order prescribed by Ordinance (excepting these stipulated by Ordinance).
The amount to be borne by each stockholder in item 3 or item 8 of the preceding paragraph shall be on a equal basis according to the amount of stock (hereinafter including investment and contribution funds). The same shall apply when the financial institution has issued several kinds of stock.
Article 25. In order to dispose of the amount of final loss to be liquidated and absorbed as calculated according to the provisions of the preceding Article, the financial institution shall take the steps prescribed in the following items;
1. In the case of Paragraph 1, item 1 of the preceding Article, the amount of final profit shall be deducted from the amount of final loss;
2. In the case of Paragraph 1, item 2 of the precednig Article, the amount of reserves of the old account shall be appropriated to absorb the final loss in the order of (1) the special reserves, (2) voluntary reserves other than those for retirement allowances, (3) voluntary reserves for retirement allowances and (4) reserves prescribed by other Laws and Ordinances excluding the Law regarding the Emergency Measures for Accounts of Financial Institutions.
3. In the case of Paragraph 1, items 3 to 8 inclusive of the preceding Article, the capital shall be reduced in the amount which is the sum total of the amount of losses to be borne by the stockholders pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph 1, item 3 or 8 of the same Article, subsequent to taking the steps prescribed in the item 2, after calling in the unpaid in capital as provided for by Ordinance, in case of where there is capital not paid in and immediately in case all the capital is paid in, excepting the casesprescribed in Article 26.
The provisions of Article 20, Paragraph 2, shall apply in cases coming under item 2 of the preceding paragraph.
In the case coming under Paragraph 1, items 4 to 10 inclusive of the preceding Article the creditors of the liabilities without preference or the designated liabilities shall lose their claims on the day the segregation of the new and old accounts is abolished, in the amount necessary for such creditors to absorb the final loss pursuant to the provisions of each of the above items.
In the case coming under the preceding paragraph, the face value of the insurance policy (hereinafter including annuity) corresponding to the legal insurance reserves or payment reserves belonging to the old account of the insurance companies, the Central Life Insurance Corporation and the Central Non-Life Insurance Corporation shall be reduced at the same rate as the claims on the legal insurance reserves or payment reserves are reduced, on the day the segregation of the new and old accounts is abolished.
Special provisions may be prescribed by Imperial Ordinance, notwithstanding other Laws, Ordinances or the articles of incorporations, with regard to the call of unpaid capital prescribed in Paragraph 1, item 3.
Article 26. In case the stockholders are required to absorb the final loss with the whole of the capital stockpursuant to the provisions of Article 24, Paragraph 1, item 8, the financial institution shall without delay after obtaining the approval prescribed in Article 27, Paragraph 1 (without delay after the receiving the indemnification pursuant to the provisions of Article 33, Paragraph 1, when the indemnification is to be received) transfer the assets of the old account and any designated liabilities and liabilities without preference which are not to absorb the final loss from the old account to the new account, whereupon simultaneously the debit of the old account against the new account shall he written off.
In the case of the preceding paragraph the financial institution shall after the measures stipulated in the preceding paragraph have been taken transfer to the whole of the business or insurance policies of the new account to another financialinstitution before the date designated by the competent Minister.
In case any consideration was received by a financial institution from the assignment or transfer stipulated in the preceding paragraph, the financial institution shall, as provided for by Ordinance, first pay it to the Government up to the amount of any Government indemnification made pursuant to the provisions of Article 33, Paragraph 1 and any balance remaining shall be disposed of as provided for by Ordinance.
When the financial institution has completed the transfer of the whole of the business or insurance policies within the period stipulated in Paragraph 2, the financial institution shall dissolve itself on the day of the transfer and when the transfer was not completed within the period stipulated in said paragraph, it shall dissolve itself on the day after the elapse of the said period. The segregation of the new and old accounts shall become extinct on the day of dissolution in this case.
The provisions of Paragraph 3 shall apply in the dissolution pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Necessary provisions regarding the dissolution pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph 4 shall be provided for by Ordinance, excepting as provided for in the preceding paragraph, notwithstanding the provisions of other Laws and Ordinances.
In case the stockholders of the old financial institution are to absorb the final loss up the the full amount of the capital pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, Paragraph 1, item 8, any liabilities of the old financial institution against the new financial institution pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, Paragraph 2 or Article 52, Paragraph 2 shall be repaid with the assets of the old account, as provided for by Ordinance before any measures arc taken under Paragraph 1;provided that if, any assets other than cash (including checks) are to be used to repay liabilities, the prior concurrence of the new financial institution is required.
The provisions of Article 1 of the Law regarding Special Exceptions to the Banking Law shall apply, as provided for by Ordinance, to the transfer of business prescribed in Paragraph 2.
Article 27. In case the directors or corresponding persons of the financial institution (hereafter called executive organ) intends to make the final disposition of the old account in a case prescribed in Article 24, Paragraph 1, it shall, as prescribed by Ordinance, prepare a document of the final disposition procedure, and obtain the approval of the competent Minister.
In the case of the preceding paragraph, when there is an Auditing Member Committee in the financial institutions concerned established according to Article 47, the executive organ shall obtain the prior approval of the Committee on the document of the final disposition procedure before submitting it for approval pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Article 28. The executive, organ of the financial institution, upon making the public notification required by Paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, shall install the documents of the final disposition procedure, together with the documents referred to in Article 21 at its head office or principal place of business and its branches or corresponding offices.
The stockholders and creditors of the old account of the financial institution referred to in the preceding paragraph may request the perusal of the documents referred to in the said paragraph at any time during business hours.
Article 29. The financial institution, upon obtaining the approval pursuant to the provisions of Article 27, Paragraph 1 shall carry out the final disposition of the old account according to the specfiications of the document of final disposition precedure.
Article 30. In case there has been any change in the assets or liabilities of the old account or the assets or liabilities of the new account at the designated Law after approval was granted under Article 27, Paragraph 1 and before the completion of the final desposition of the old account, which may exert influence on the results of the final disposition of the old account, the executive organ of the financial institution shall revise the documents of the final disposition procedure according to such change.
The provisions of Article 27 to the preceding Article inclusive shall apply to the preceding paragraph.
Article 31. The financial institution, upon obtaining the approval pursuant to Article 27, Paragraph 1, shall not be required to resort to the resolution of the shareholders'general meeting or corresponding organ, or to obtain the approval of the government, notwithstanding the provisions of other Laws and Ordinances or the articles of association of the financial institution, with reference to the reduction of capitalization, change of the articles of association or other procedures.
The provisions of Article 380 of the Commercial Code shall not apply to the reduction of capitalization prescribed in the preceding paragraph.
With respect to the reduction of capitalization prescribed in Paragraph 1, the provisions regarding capitalization or par value of shares prescribed in other Laws and Ordinances shall not apply after the date of the reduction in capitalization till the date designated by Ordinance.
Special provisions may be prescribed by Ordinance with respect to necessary matters regarding the reduction in capitalization in Paragraph 1 other than those prescribed in the preceding three paragraphs, notwithstanding the provisions of other Laws and Ordinances.
Article 32. In case, as a result of the decrease of capital pursuant to Paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, the amount of debenture issues or borrowings or advances of funds of financial institutions should come to exceed the limitations to debenture issues, borrowings or advances of amount prescribed in other Laws or Ordinances, the provisions prescribing such limitations in other Laws and Ordinances shall not apply to the debentures, borrowings or advances (including claims and obligations arising from renovation) outstanding at the time of the reduction in capitalizaton.
Article 33. The balance of the final loss remaining after computation of the amount to be liquidated and absorbed pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, Paragraph 1, shall be indemnified by the Government as provided for by Ordinance;provided that the amount of indemnification shall be limited by Imperial Ordinance.
The payment of the indemnification prescribed in the preceding paragraph may be made by delivering national bonds.
The delivery price of the national bonds referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be determined by the Minister of Finance.
The Government may issue bonds within the limits of the amount of national bonds necessary for delivery in order to pay the indemnity prescribed in Paragraph 1.
The provisions of Paragraph 1 shall not apply when financial institution has transferred the liabilities without preference from the old account to the new account or to a new financial institution as prescribed in the preceding Chapter.
The sum total of the amount to be paid by the Government as indemnification pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph 1 and the amount to be transferred from the General Account pursuant to the provisions of Law regarding the Special Disposition of Loss of the Deposit Bureau of Ministry of Finance and Others shall be not more than 10 billion yen.(In case any amount of money was paid in to the government pursuant to the provisions of Article 26 Paragraph 3, and other provisions it shall be 10 billion yen plus such amount paid in).
Article 34. The financial institution which has completed the final disposition of the old account shall without delay make public notification to that effect.
The segregation of the new and old accounts of financial institutions shall become extinct on the day of the public notification prescribed in the preceding paragraph (the day of the first public notification when it has been made more than once).
The financial institutions shall, upon making the public notification (the first public notification when it has been made more than once) prescribed in Paragraph 1, register the abrogation of the segregation of new and old accounts within two weeks at the place where its main office or principal place of business is located and within three weeks at the places where its branches or corresponding offices are located.
Necessary particulars regarding the registration stipulated in the preceding paragraph shall be prescribed by Ordinance.
Article 35. A creditor who is required to report his claim pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, Paragraph 1, and who has failed to do so and has reported his claim after the period stipulated in the said paragraph but before the abrogation of the segregation of the new and old accounts may demand payment on his claim on an equal basis against the financial institution from within the amount of reserves in the old account, only in cases prescribed in Article 19 or Article 23, or when any reserves remain in the old account after calculation according to the provisions of Article 20, Paragraph 1, item 2, or Article 25, Paragraph 1, item 2.
In the case stipulated in the preceding paragraph, the financial institution shall notify the creditor the amount of claims on which he may make demand of payment.
A claim which should have been reported pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, Paragraph 1, and which was not reported within the period stipulated in the said paragraph shall become extinct on the day the segregation of the new and old accounts is abrogated, excepting for the amount on which payment may be demanded pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph 1.
In the case stipulated in Paragraph 1, the financial institution may successievly reduce the reserves in the order of the voluntary reserves other than those for retirement allowances, reserves for retirement allowances and reserves prescribed in other Laws and Ordinances, in the amount to make payment on demand pursuant to the provisions of said paragraph, notwithstanding the provisions of other Laws and Ordinances.
The provisions of Article 20, Paragraph 2, shall apply in the case stipulated in the preceding paragraph.
Article 36. If any of the claims (hereafter to Article 37 including rights on legal insurance reserves and payment reserves) on the liabilities of the account of financial institution or the liabilities of the new account thereof as of the designated hour which were indefinite at the time the final disposition of the old account was completed became definite after the final disposition of the old account was completed, the executive organ of the financial institution shall compute the amount of final loss to be borne by each claim according to the definite amount of such claim according to the provisions of Article 24 and notify the creditor of such claim (hereafter to Article 38 including the creditor on legal insurance reserves and payment reserves).
In the case stipulated in the preceding paragraph, the said claim shall become extinct in the amount notified at the time the notification is made pursuant to the provisions of the said paragraph.
The provisions of Article 25, Paragraph 4 shall apply to the case stipulated in the said paragraph.
Article 37. In case the creditors of liabilities without preference of financial institutions have absorbed the final loss of the old account pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, Paragraph 1, items 4 to 8 inclusive, the amount equal to any increase in value, compared with the value appraised pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, Paragraph 1 or Article 9, of assets previously belonging to the old account among such assets of the financial institution concerned, prescribed by Ordinance, after the segregation of new and old accounts is abrogated, or the amount equal to any excess in value of consideration received from the disposition of such assets above mentioned over the value appraised pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, Paragraph 1 or Article 9 shall be disposed of by the financial institution as provided for by Ordinance, notwithstanding the provisions of other Laws and Ordinances.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall prevail with regard to the disposition of the amount stipulated in Item 1 below in case any claim on a liability of the old account of a financial institution or a liability of the new account thereof as of the designated hour which was indefinite at the time the final disposition of the old account was completed was definitely found not to have existed from the outset after the completion of the final disposition of the old account or with regard to the disposition of the balance of the amount stipulated in Item 1 below after de ducting the amount stipulated in Item 2 below in case the amount found definite is smaller than the amount prescribed by Ordinance issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 5.
1. The balance of the claim on such liability after applying the provisions of Article 24, Paragraph 1, Items 4 to 10 inclusive on the amount prescribed by Ordinance issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 5.
2. The balance of the claim on such liability after applying the provisions of Paragraph 1 of the preceding article on the amount found definite.
Article 38. Upon completion of the final disposition of the old account, the claims of the creditors and the stockholders shall become definite as stipulated in the document of the final disposition procedure;provided that the claims of creditors stipulated in Article 36 shall become definite as provided for in the said article.
If the liquidation of the old account has caused damages to a creditor or a stockholder due to a violation of Law or Ordinance, the executive organ of the financial institution concerned shall indemnify the damages jointly with the financial institutions concerned;provided that this shall not apply in case there was no fault on the part of the executive organ in carrying on its business.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply to the responsibility of the liquidator concerning the liquidation stipulated in Article 26, Paragraph 4.
The claim for damages stipulated in Paragraph 1 (including the cases to which the preceding paragraph applies) shall be barred by prescription after the elapse of five years from the time the segregation of the new and old accounts was abrogated.