①The provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article do not apply if the company surviving the absorption-type merger, the company succeeding in the absorption-type split or the wholly owning parent company resulting from the share exchange (hereinafter referred to as the "surviving company, etc." in this division) is the special controlling company of the disappearing stock company, etc.;provided, however, that this does not apply if all or part of the value of the merger, etc. in the absorption-type merger or share exchange is shares with a restriction on transfer, etc., and the disappearing stock company, etc. is a public company and not a company with class shares.

②The provisions of the preceding Article do not apply if the sum of the book value of the assets that the company succeeding in the absorption-type split succeeds to through the absorption-type company split does not exceed one-fifth (or, if a lesser proportion is prescribed in the articles of incorporation of the stock company splitting in the absorption-type split, that proportion) of the amount calculated by the method specified by Ministry of Justice Order as the total assets of the stock company splitting in the absorption-type split.