Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures on Registration of Outside Directors
第二条（社外取締役の登記に関する経過措置）
If a director actually in office at the time this Act comes into effect is an outside director prescribed in Article 188, paragraph (2), item (vii)-2 of the Commercial Code as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Amended Commercial Code"), a stock company is not required to effect the registration to the effect that the director is an outside director, only during the term of office that includes the day this Act comes into effect; provided, however, that this does not apply when the company has amended its articles of incorporation to include a provision that a contract under Article 266, paragraph (19) of the Amended Commercial Code may be made.
株式会社は、この法律の施行の際現に在任する取締役がこの法律による改正後の商法（以下「新商法」という。）第百八十八条第二項第七号ノ二に規定する社外取締役である場合には、この法律の施行の日を含む任期中に限り、当該取締役が社外取締役である旨の登記をすることを要しない。ただし、定款を変更して新商法第二百六十六条第十九項の契約をすることができる旨の定めを設けたときは、この限りでない。
Amended Commercial Codemachine translation
「新商法」
This Act as amended by Act No. 149 of 2001.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
articles of incorporation
定款
A company's own basic rules, written by its founders when it is formed: at least its purpose, its trade name, where its head office is, the value of the property contributed at incorporation and who the founders are (Companies Act, Article 27). A stock company's must be certified by a notary before it takes effect (Article 30, paragraph (1)), and can later be changed by a resolution of the shareholders meeting (Article 466). Many rules in the Act apply "unless the articles of incorporation provide otherwise", so a company's articles decide a great deal of how the Act applies to it.
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 26, 27, 30, 466, 575 as a reference.
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.
registration
登記
Entry in a public register kept by a registry office (登記所) — a Legal Affairs Bureau or one of its branch offices — so that the matter is made public (Real Property Registration Act, Articles 1 and 6, paragraph (1)). Rights in land and buildings, such as ownership, a superficies (地上権), a statutory lien (先取特権), a mortgage and a right of lease (賃借権), can be registered under that Act (Article 3), and matters the Commercial Code, the Companies Act and other Acts require to be registered are registered under the Commercial Registration Act (Article 1). Registration also lets a right be asserted against third parties: acquiring, losing or changing a right in rem (物権) in land or a building, such as ownership, cannot be asserted against third parties until it is registered (Civil Code, Article 177), and a matter the Companies Act requires to be registered cannot be asserted against a third party who does not know of it until it has been registered, nor, even after that, against one who had a justifiable reason for not knowing of the registration (Companies Act, Article 908, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Real Property Registration Act, Arts. 1, 3, 6, Commercial Registration Act, Art. 1, Civil Code, Art. 177 and Companies Act, Art. 908 as a reference.