# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百二十三条 (Article 123) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-123. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 会社法 (Companies Act), 平成十七年法律第八十六号 - English title "Companies Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百二十三条 (Article 123)（株主名簿管理人） — address `art-123` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-123 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-123 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百二十三条（株主名簿管理人） — (Shareholder Register Administrator) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-123 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-123 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-123 **第一項** 株式会社は、株主名簿管理人（株式会社に代わって株主名簿の作成及び備置きその他の株主名簿に関する事務を行う者をいう。以下同じ。）を置く旨を定款で定め、当該事務を行うことを委託することができる。 art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-123/par-1 A stock company, in its articles of incorporation, may provide for the hiring of a shareholder register administrator (meaning a person to prepare, keep, and otherwise administer the shareholder register on behalf of the stock company; the same applies hereinafter), and may entrust that administrator with administering the same. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二百二十二条第一項（株券喪失登録簿に関する事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-222/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-222/par-1 - 会社法 第二百五十一条第一項（新株予約権原簿の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-251/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-251/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 会社法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/417AC0000000086/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-09-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17