# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二百二十八条 (Article 228) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-228. 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: 第二百二十八条 (Article 228)（株券の無効） — address `art-228` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-228 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-228 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十八条（株券の無効） — (Invalidation of Share Certificate) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-228 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-228 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-228 **第一項** 株券喪失登録（抹消されたものを除く。）がされた株券は、株券喪失登録日の翌日から起算して一年を経過した日に無効となる。 art-228/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-228/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-228/par-1 Share certificates subject to the registration of lost share certificate (excluding registrations that have been cancelled) become invalid on the day on which one year has elapsed from the day immediately following the day of registration of lost share certificate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により株券が無効となった場合には、株券発行会社は、当該株券についての株券喪失登録者に対し、株券を再発行しなければならない。 art-228/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-228/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-228/par-2 If share certificates become invalid under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the share certificate-issuing company must reissue share certificates to the registrant of lost share certificate for relevant share certificates. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-228/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第二百二十八条第一項 (Article 228, paragraph (1)), art-228/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-228/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-228/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二百二十一条第一項（株券喪失登録簿） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-221/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-221/par-1 - 会社法 第二百二十一条第一項第一号（株券喪失登録簿） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-221/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-221/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第二百二十八条第二項（株券の無効） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-228/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-228/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