If a stock company (excluding a company with nominating committee, etc.) has outside directors, if there is a conflict of interests between the stock company and its directors or there is otherwise a likelihood that the interests of shareholders will be prejudiced by the execution of the operations of the stock company by the directors, the stock company may whenever necessary, by a decision of the directors (or a resolution at a board of directors meeting for a company with board of directors) delegate the execution of operations of the stock company to the outside directors.
株式会社（指名委員会等設置会社を除く。）が社外取締役を置いている場合において、当該株式会社と取締役との利益が相反する状況にあるとき、その他取締役が当該株式会社の業務を執行することにより株主の利益を損なうおそれがあるときは、当該株式会社は、その都度、取締役の決定（取締役会設置会社にあっては、取締役会の決議）によって、当該株式会社の業務を執行することを社外取締役に委託することができる。
If there is a conflict of interests between a company with nominating committee, etc. and its executive officers or there is otherwise a likelihood that the interests of shareholders will be prejudiced by the execution of the operations of the company with nominating committee, etc. by the executive officers, the company with nominating committee, etc. may whenever necessary, by a resolution at the board of directors meeting delegate the execution of operations of the company with nominating committee, etc. to the outside directors.
指名委員会等設置会社と執行役との利益が相反する状況にあるとき、その他執行役が指名委員会等設置会社の業務を執行することにより株主の利益を損なうおそれがあるときは、当該指名委員会等設置会社は、その都度、取締役会の決議によって、当該指名委員会等設置会社の業務を執行することを社外取締役に委託することができる。
The execution of operations delegated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs does not be deemed the execution of operations of a stock company provided in Article 2, item (xv), (a); provided, however, that this does not apply if an outside director executes relevant delegated operations pursuant to the direction and orders of an executive directors (or, for a company with nominating committee, etc., executive officer).
前二項の規定により委託された業務の執行は、第二条第十五号イに規定する株式会社の業務の執行に該当しないものとする。ただし、社外取締役が業務執行取締役（指名委員会等設置会社にあっては、執行役）の指揮命令により当該委託された業務を執行したときは、この限りでない。
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"outside director" means a director of any stock company who satisfies all of the following requirements:
社外取締役 株式会社の取締役であって、次に掲げる要件のいずれにも該当するものをいう。
Open this provision(Delegation of Execution of Operations to Outside Directors)
If a stock company (excluding a company with nominating committee, etc.) has outside directors, if there is a conflict of interests between the stock company and its directors or there is otherwise a…
株式会社（指名委員会等設置会社を除く。）が社外取締役を置いている場合において、当該株式会社と取締役との利益が相反する状況にあるとき、その他取締役が当該株式会社の業務を執行することにより株主の利益を損なうおそれがあるときは、当該株式会社は、その都度、取締役の決定（取締役会設置会社にあっては、取締役会の決議）によって…
Open this provision(Delegation of Execution of Operations to Outside Directors)
If there is a conflict of interests between a company with nominating committee, etc. and its executive officers or there is otherwise a likelihood that the interests of shareholders will be…
指名委員会等設置会社と執行役との利益が相反する状況にあるとき、その他執行役が指名委員会等設置会社の業務を執行することにより株主の利益を損なうおそれがあるときは、当該指名委員会等設置会社は、その都度、取締役会の決議によって、当該指名委員会等設置会社の業務を執行することを社外取締役に委託することができる。
Open this provisioncompany with board of directors
「取締役会設置会社」
A stock company that has a board of directors, or that this Act requires to have one.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vii)· applies throughout the law
company with nominating committee, etc.machine translation
「指名委員会等設置会社」
A stock company with a nominating committee, an audit committee and a remuneration committee, each made up of directors.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xii)· applies throughout the law
outside director
「社外取締役」
A director of a stock company who meets all the independence requirements in Article 2, item (xv), such as not running, and not having run in the previous ten years, the business of the company or its subsidiaries.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xv)· applies throughout the law
executive director
「業務執行取締役」
A director who runs a stock company's business: the representative director, any director chosen by the board to execute its business under Article 363, paragraph (1), and any other director who has in fact executed its business.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xv), (a)
board of directors
取締役会
The body made up of all of a stock company's directors (Companies Act, Article 362, paragraph (1)). It decides how the company's business is carried out, supervises the directors, and appoints and removes the representative directors (代表取締役) (Article 362, paragraphs (2) and (3)) — except in a company with a nominating committee and the other committees (指名委員会等設置会社), where it appoints representative executive officers (代表執行役) instead (Articles 416 and 420). Some decisions, such as disposing of important assets or borrowing a large amount, it normally may not hand to the directors (Article 362, paragraph (4)). A company with an audit and supervisory committee (監査等委員会設置会社) can hand more of them to directors (Article 399-13, paragraphs (5) and (6)), and a company with the committees hands them to executive officers (執行役) rather than directors (Article 416, paragraphs (3) and (4)). A company chooses in its articles of incorporation whether to have one (Article 326, paragraph (2)), but a public company (公開会社), among others, must (Article 327, paragraph (1)): a public company is one whose articles of incorporation let at least some of its shares change hands without the company's approval (Article 2, item (v)). A company with a board must have at least three directors (Article 331, paragraph (5)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 2, 326, 327, 331, 362, 399-13, 416, 420 as a reference.
director
取締役
An officer of a stock company, elected by the shareholders meeting (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)). Every stock company has at least one (Article 326, paragraph (1)). Where there is no board of directors, the directors run the company's business unless the articles of incorporation say otherwise (Article 348, paragraph (1)), and each of them represents it unless the company has chosen representative directors (代表取締役) or others to do that (Article 349, paragraphs (1) and (3)). Where there is a board (取締役会, board of directors), the directors are its members, and the board decides the business and normally chooses the representative directors from among them (Article 362). The term normally runs to the annual shareholders meeting for the last business year ending within two years of election (Article 332, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 326, 329, 332, 348, 349, 362 as a reference.