# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百六十三条 (Article 163) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-163. 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: 第百六十三条 (Article 163)（子会社からの株式の取得） — address `art-163` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-163 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-163 - 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. --- ### 第百六十三条（子会社からの株式の取得） — (Acquisition of Shares from Subsidiary Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-163 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-163 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-163 **第一項** 株式会社がその子会社の有する当該株式会社の株式を取得する場合における第百五十六条第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「株主総会」とあるのは、「株主総会（取締役会設置会社にあっては、取締役会）」とする。この場合においては、第百五十七条から第百六十条までの規定は、適用しない。 art-163/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-163/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-163/par-1 If a stock company acquires shares in relevant stock company that are held by its subsidiary company, for the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1), the phrase "shareholders meeting" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "shareholders meeting (or board of directors meeting for a company with board of directors)". In these cases, the provisions of Article 157 through Article 160 do not apply. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-163/par-1: 第百五十六条第一項 → 会社法 第百五十六条第一項 (Article 156, paragraph (1)), art-156/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-156/par-1 - art-163/par-1: 第百五十七条から第百六十条まで → 会社法 第百五十七条 (Article 157), art-157 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-157 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-157 - art-163/par-1: 第百五十七条から第百六十条まで → 会社法 第百五十八条 (Article 158), art-158 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-158 - art-163/par-1: 第百五十七条から第百六十条まで → 会社法 第百五十九条 (Article 159), art-159 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-159 - art-163/par-1: 第百五十七条から第百六十条まで → 会社法 第百六十条 (Article 160), art-160 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-160 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-160 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百六十一条第一項第二号（配当等の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-461/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-461/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第四百六十五条第一項第二号（欠損が生じた場合の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-465/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-465/par-1/item-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百六十二条の二第一項（上場等株券等の発行者が行うその売買に関する規制） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-162-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-162-2/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百六十六条第二項第一号ニ（会社関係者の禁止行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-166/par-2/item-1/sub-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-166/par-2/item-1/sub-4 - 金融商品取引法 第百六十六条第六項第四号の二（会社関係者の禁止行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-166/par-6/item-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-166/par-6/item-4-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百八十五条の七第十四項（課徴金の納付命令の決定等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-185-7/par-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-185-7/par-14 --- ## 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