# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二百五十九条 (Article 259) - 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: 第二百五十九条 (Article 259)（新株予約権者の請求によらない新株予約権原簿記載事項の記載又は記録） — address `art-259` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-259 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-259 - 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. --- ### 第二百五十九条（新株予約権者の請求によらない新株予約権原簿記載事項の記載又は記録） — (Entry or Recording of Information Required to Be Entered in the share option Register Not Requested by Share Option Holders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-259 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-259 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-259 **第一項** 株式会社は、次の各号に掲げる場合には、当該各号の新株予約権の新株予約権者に係る新株予約権原簿記載事項を新株予約権原簿に記載し、又は記録しなければならない。 art-259/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-259/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-259/par-1 In the cases provided for in the following items, a stock company must enter or record the information required to be entered in the share option register in respect of the share option holders referred to in these items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該株式会社の新株予約権を取得した場合 art-259/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-259/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-259/par-1/item-1 if it has acquired the share options of relevant stock company; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 自己新株予約権を処分した場合 art-259/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-259/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-259/par-1/item-2 if it has disposed of own share options. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、無記名新株予約権及び無記名新株予約権付社債に付された新株予約権については、適用しない。 art-259/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-259/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-259/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to bearer share options or share options attached to bearer bonds with share option. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-259/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第二百五十九条第一項 (Article 259, paragraph (1)), art-259/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-259/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-259/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二百五十九条第二項（新株予約権者の請求によらない新株予約権原簿記載事項の記載又は記録） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-259/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-259/par-2 - 会社法 第二百七十二条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-272-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-272-2/par-3 - 会社法 第二百九十四条第三項（無記名式の新株予約権証券等が提出されない場合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-294/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-294/par-3 - 会社法 第二百九十四条第五項（無記名式の新株予約権証券等が提出されない場合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-294/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-294/par-5 --- ## 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 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17