Article 550Issuance of Reference Documents for Creditors Meetings and Voting Form
第五百五十条（債権者集会参考書類及び議決権行使書面の交付等）
The convener must, when giving a notice under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, issue to the agreement claim creditors that stated their claims and other agreement claim creditors known to the liquidating stock company, documents stating the matters provided for under the provisions of Article 548, paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) with respect to the agreement claims held by relevant agreement claim creditors and matters of reference for the exercising the voting rights (in the following paragraph referred to as "Reference documents for creditors meeting") as well as the document to be used by the agreement claim creditors to exercise the voting rights (hereinafter in this Subsection referred to as "voting form") as prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order.
If the convener issues notices by electronic or magnetic means as referred to in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article to the agreement claim creditors that have given the consent referred to in that paragraph, the convener may use electronic or magnetic means to provide the information that is required to be detailed in that document, in lieu of delivering the creditors meeting reference documents and voting form under the provisions of the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that, if requested by an agreement claim creditor, the convener must deliver these documents to relevant agreement claim creditor.
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electronic or magnetic means
「電磁的方法」
A method that uses an electronic data processing system or other information and communications technology, of a kind set by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv)
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)
agreement claims
「協定債権」
The claims of a liquidating stock company's creditors that are dealt with in special liquidation, which is all of them except claims with general priority and claims arising from the special liquidation proceedings themselves.
Short name set inArticle 515, paragraph (3)· applies only in this section
agreement claim creditors
「協定債権者」
A creditor who holds an agreement claim in the special liquidation of a stock company.
Short name set inArticle 517, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
convener
「招集者」
The person who calls a creditors meeting in special liquidation, or a bondholders meeting.
Short name set inArticle 548, paragraph (1)· applies only in this subsection
Reference documents for creditors meeting
「債権者集会参考書類」
The reference documents that the convener of a creditors' meeting in a special liquidation must give, together with the notice of the meeting, to each creditor holding an agreement claim, setting out what has been fixed about that creditor's claim under Article 548, paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) and the other matters the creditor needs in order to vote.
Short name set inArticle 550, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 550, paragraph (2)
voting form
「議決権行使書面」
The form on which a creditor holding an agreement claim can cast their vote in writing, which the convener must send with the notice of a creditors meeting in a special liquidation.
Short name set inArticle 550, paragraph (1)· applies only in this subsection