No later than two weeks prior to the effective day, the stock company must notify the shareholders (or, for a company with class shares , referring to the class shareholders of the classes of shares under paragraph (2), item (iii) of the preceding Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection) and the registered pledgees of the shares thereof of the matters set forth in each item of that paragraph.
A public notice may be substituted for the notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
前項の規定による通知は、公告をもってこれに代えることができる。
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company with class shares
「種類株式発行会社」
A stock company that issues two or more classes of shares with different terms on the matters listed in Article 108, paragraph (1), such as dividends of surplus or voting rights.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xiii)· applies throughout the law
class shareholders
「種類株主」
A shareholder holding a particular class of shares in a company with class shares.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xiv)
registered pledgee of shares
「登録株式質権者」
A person holding a pledge over shares who is entered as pledgee in the company's shareholder register.
Short name set inArticle 149, paragraph (1)
effective day
「効力発生日」
The day on which the corporate action in question takes effect, such as a share consolidation, business transfer, entity conversion, merger, company split, share exchange or partial share exchange.
Short name set inArticle 180, paragraph (2), item (ii)· applies only in this subsection