A company with audit and supervisory committee must keep the minutes referred to in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article at its head office for a period of ten years from the day of the audit and supervisory committee meeting.
監査等委員会設置会社は、監査等委員会の日から十年間、前条第三項の議事録をその本店に備え置かなければならない。
If it is necessary for the purpose of exercising the rights of a shareholder of a company with audit and supervisory committees, the relevant shareholder may, with the permission of the court, make the following requests:
監査等委員会設置会社の株主は、その権利を行使するため必要があるときは、裁判所の許可を得て、次に掲げる請求をすることができる。
if the minutes under the preceding paragraph are prepared in writing, requests for inspection or copying of those documents; and
前項の議事録が書面をもって作成されているときは、当該書面の閲覧又は謄写の請求
if the minutes under the preceding paragraph have been prepared as an electronic or magnetic record, a request to inspect or copy anything that is used in a manner prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order to display the information recorded in that electronic or magnetic record.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to those cases where it is necessary for the purpose of enforcing the liability of directors or accounting advisors by a creditor of a company with audit and supervisory committee and to the cases where it is necessary for the purpose of exercising the rights of a member of the parent company.
前項の規定は、監査等委員会設置会社の債権者が取締役又は会計参与の責任を追及するため必要があるとき及び親会社社員がその権利を行使するため必要があるときについて準用する。
If the court finds that the inspection or copying relating to the requests under paragraph (2) (including the case of the mutatis mutandis application pursuant to the preceding paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) is likely to cause substantial detriment to the company with audit and supervisory committee or its parent company or subsidiary company, the court may not grant the permission under paragraph (2).