Supervisors may at any time ask liquidators and company auditors of a liquidating stock company and employees, including managers, to provide a report on the business, or investigate the status of the business and property of the liquidating stock company.
監督委員は、いつでも、清算株式会社の清算人及び監査役並びに支配人その他の使用人に対し、事業の報告を求め、又は清算株式会社の業務及び財産の状況を調査することができる。
When it is necessary to perform their duties supervisors may ask subsidiary companies of a liquidating stock company to provide reports on the business, or investigate the status of the business and assets of subsidiary companies of the liquidating stock company.
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subsidiary company
「子会社」
A stock company in which a company holds a majority of the votes, or any other corporation whose management a company controls, as set out by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
liquidating stock companies
「清算株式会社」
A stock company that is being wound up, which is treated as still existing for the purposes of the liquidation until the liquidation is completed.
Short name set inArticle 476, paragraph (1)
company auditor
監査役
An officer of a stock company, elected by the shareholders meeting (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)), whose job is to audit how the directors carry out their duties and to write an audit report on it (Article 381, paragraph (1)). Not an outside accountant — that is the financial auditor (会計監査人) — and not a director: a company auditor may not also be a director or employee of the company or its subsidiaries (Article 335, paragraph (2)). The term normally runs to the annual shareholders meeting for the last business year ending within four years of election (Article 336, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 329, 335, 336, 381 as a reference.