# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百八十二条 (Article 182) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-182. 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: 第百八十二条 (Article 182)（効力の発生） — address `art-182` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-182 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-182 - 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. --- ### 第百八十二条（効力の発生） — (Effectuation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-182 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-182 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-182 **第一項** 株主は、効力発生日に、その日の前日に有する株式（種類株式発行会社にあっては、第百八十条第二項第三号の種類の株式。以下この項において同じ。）の数に同条第二項第一号の割合を乗じて得た数の株式の株主となる。 art-182/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-182/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-182/par-1 On the effective day, the shareholders become shareholders of shares in the number obtained by multiplying the number of shares (or, for a company with class shares , shares of the classes provided for in Article 180, paragraph (2), item (iii); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) they held on the day immediately preceding that day, by the ratio provided for in paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 株式の併合をした株式会社は、効力発生日に、第百八十条第二項第四号に掲げる事項についての定めに従い、当該事項に係る定款の変更をしたものとみなす。 art-182/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-182/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-182/par-2 A stock company consolidating shares is deemed to have changed the articles of incorporation related to the matters set forth in Article 180, paragraph (2), item (iv) on the effective day in accordance with provisions on those matters. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-182/par-1: 第百八十条第二項第三号 → 会社法 第百八十条第二項第三号 (Article 180, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-180/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-180/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-180/par-2/item-3 - art-182/par-1: この項 → 会社法 第百八十二条第一項 (Article 182, paragraph (1)), art-182/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-182/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-182/par-1 - art-182/par-1: 同条第二項第一号 → 会社法 第百八十条第二項第一号 (Article 180, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-180/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-180/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-180/par-2/item-1 - art-182/par-2: 第百八十条第二項第四号 → 会社法 第百八十条第二項第四号 (Article 180, paragraph (2), item (iv)), art-180/par-2/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-180/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-180/par-2/item-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百八十二条第一項（効力の発生） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-182/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-182/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