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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(Consolidation of Shares)
Whenever a stock company intends to consolidate its shares, it must determine the following matters by a resolution at a shareholders meeting:
株式会社は、株式の併合をしようとするときは、その都度、株主総会の決議によって、次に掲げる事項を定めなければならない。
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if the stock company is a company with class shares, the classes of the shares it will consolidate; and
株式会社が種類株式発行会社である場合には、併合する株式の種類
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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…
株式会社は、効力発生日の二週間前までに、株主（種類株式発行会社にあっては、前条第二項第三号の種類の種類株主。以下この款において同じ。）及びその登録株式質権者に対し、同項各号に掲げる事項を通知しなければならない。
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「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