# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-19. 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（契約の解除） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（契約の解除） — (Cancellation of Commercial Agency Contracts) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-19 **第一項** 会社及び代理商は、契約の期間を定めなかったときは、二箇月前までに予告し、その契約を解除することができる。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-19/par-1 A company or the commercial agent may, when they did not define the period of the commercial agency contract, cancel the contract by giving an advance notice more than two months in advance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、やむを得ない事由があるときは、会社及び代理商は、いつでもその契約を解除することができる。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-19/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if there is any compelling reason, the company or its commercial agent may cancel the commercial agency contract at any time. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-19/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-19/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第十九条第二項（契約の解除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-19/par-2 --- ## 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