# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二百四十四条 (Article 244) - 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: 第二百四十四条 (Article 244)（募集新株予約権の申込み及び割当てに関する特則） — address `art-244` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244 - 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. --- ### 第二百四十四条（募集新株予約権の申込み及び割当てに関する特則） — (Special Provisions on the Subscription for and Allotment of Share Options for Subscription) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-244 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244 **第一項** 前二条の規定は、募集新株予約権を引き受けようとする者がその総数の引受けを行う契約を締結する場合には、適用しない。 art-244/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244/par-1 The provisions of the preceding two Articles do not apply if a person who intends to subscribe for share options for subscription executes a contract for subscription for the total number of those share options. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 募集新株予約権が新株予約権付社債に付されたものである場合における前項の規定の適用については、同項中「の引受け」とあるのは、「及び当該募集新株予約権を付した社債の総額の引受け」とする。 art-244/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244/par-2 For the purpose of the application of the preceding paragraph if the share options for subscription are those attached to bonds with share option, the phrase "for subscription for the total number of those share options" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "for subscription for the total number of those share options and the total amount of the bonds to which relevant share options for subscription are attached". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項に規定する場合において、次に掲げるときは、株式会社は、株主総会（取締役会設置会社にあっては、取締役会）の決議によって、同項の契約の承認を受けなければならない。ただし、定款に別段の定めがある場合は、この限りでない。 art-244/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244/par-3 In the case prescribed in paragraph (1), in the following cases, a stock company must obtain approval for the contact set forth in the same paragraph by the resolution at the shareholders meeting (or at a board of directors meeting for a company with board of directors); provided, however, that this does not apply to cases where it is otherwise provided for in the articles of incorporation: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In the case prescribed in paragraph (1), in the following cases, a stock company must obtain approval for the contact set forth in the same paragraph by the resolution at the shareholders meeting (or at a the board of directors meeting for a company with board of directors); provided, however, that this does not apply to cases where it is otherwise provided for in the articles of incorporation:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb **一** 募集新株予約権の目的である株式の全部又は一部が譲渡制限株式であるとき。 art-244/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244/par-3/item-1 if all or part of shares underlying share options for subscription are shares with restriction on transfer; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 募集新株予約権が譲渡制限新株予約権であるとき。 art-244/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244/par-3/item-2 if share options for subscription are share options with restriction on transfer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-244/par-1: 前二条 → 会社法 第二百四十二条 (Article 242), art-242 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-242 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-242 - art-244/par-1: 前二条 → 会社法 第二百四十三条 (Article 243), art-243 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-243 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-243 - art-244/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第二百四十四条第一項 (Article 244, paragraph (1)), art-244/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244/par-1 - art-244/par-3: 第一項 → 会社法 第二百四十四条第一項 (Article 244, paragraph (1)), art-244/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二百四十四条第二項（募集新株予約権の申込み及び割当てに関する特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244/par-2 - 会社法 第二百四十四条第三項（募集新株予約権の申込み及び割当てに関する特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244/par-3 - 会社法 第二百四十四条の二第一項（公開会社における募集新株予約権の割当て等の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244-2/par-1 - 会社法 第二百四十四条の二第五項（公開会社における募集新株予約権の割当て等の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-244-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-244-2/par-5 - 会社法 第二百四十五条第一項第二号（新株予約権者となる日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-245/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-245/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第三百九条第二項第六号（株主総会の決議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-309/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-309/par-2/item-6 - 会社法 附則第十三条第一項（新株予約権に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/suppl-4261-90/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/suppl-4261-90/art-13/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-05 - 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 (会社法), Article 244, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), 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 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17