Supplementary Provisions, Article 12Transitional Measures Concerning Documents to Be Prepared by Directors at the Account Closing Day, etc.
第十二条（決算期に取締役が作成すべき書類等に関する経過措置）
The provisions then in force continue to govern the documents that directors are to prepare at an account closing day on or before the last account closing day that arrived before this Act comes into effect and the accounts relating to that account closing day, even after this Act comes into effect.
この法律の施行前に到来した最終の決算期以前の決算期に取締役が作成すべき書類及びその決算期に係る計算に関しては、この法律の施行後も、なお従前の例による。
director
取締役
An officer of a stock company, elected by the shareholders meeting (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)). Every stock company has at least one (Article 326, paragraph (1)). Where there is no board of directors, the directors run the company's business unless the articles of incorporation say otherwise (Article 348, paragraph (1)), and each of them represents it unless the company has chosen representative directors (代表取締役) or others to do that (Article 349, paragraphs (1) and (3)). Where there is a board (取締役会, board of directors), the directors are its members, and the board decides the business and normally chooses the representative directors from among them (Article 362). The term normally runs to the annual shareholders meeting for the last business year ending within two years of election (Article 332, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 326, 329, 332, 348, 349, 362 as a reference.