Article 218Abolition of Provisions of Articles of Incorporation That Share Certificates Be Issued
第二百十八条（株券を発行する旨の定款の定めの廃止）
If a share certificate-issuing company intends to effect an amendment to the articles of incorporation to abolish provisions of the articles of incorporation to the effect that it issues share certificates for its shares (or, for a company with class shares, shares of all classes), it must give public notice of the following matters, and give separate notice thereof to each shareholder and each registered pledgee of shares no later than two weeks prior to the day on which relevant amendment to the articles of incorporation takes effect:
a statement to the effect that the stock company abolishes the provisions of the articles of incorporation to the effect that it issues share certificates for its shares (or, for a company with class shares, shares of all classes);
その株式（種類株式発行会社にあっては、全部の種類の株式）に係る株券を発行する旨の定款の定めを廃止する旨
the day on which the amendment to the articles of incorporation will take effect; and
定款の変更がその効力を生ずる日
a statement to the effect that the share certificates of relevant stock company become invalid on the day provided for in the preceding item.
前号の日において当該株式会社の株券は無効となる旨
Share certificates representing the shares of a share certificate-issuing company become invalid on the day provided for in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), if a share certificate-issuing company that does not issue share certificates for any of its shares intends to effect an amendment to the articles of incorporation to abolish provisions of the articles of incorporation to the effect that it issues share certificates for its shares (or, for a company with class shares, shares of all classes), it is sufficient to notify the shareholders and registered pledgees of shares of the matters set forth in item (i) and item (ii) of that paragraph no later than two weeks prior to the day provided for in item (ii) 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。
In the cases provided for in paragraph (1), pledgees of shares (excluding registered pledgees of shares) may, no later than the day immediately preceding the day provided for in item (ii) of that paragraph, demand that the share certificate-issuing company state or record the matters set forth in each item of Article 148 in the shareholder register.
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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
share certificate-issuing company
「株券発行会社」
A stock company whose articles of incorporation provide that it issues share certificates for its shares (for a company with class shares, for shares of every class).
Defined inArticle 117, paragraph (7)
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)
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.