# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二百八十八条 (Article 288) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-288. 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: 第二百八十八条 (Article 288)（新株予約権証券の発行） — address `art-288` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-288 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第二百八十八条（新株予約権証券の発行） — (Issuing of Share Option Certificates) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-288 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-288 **第一項** 株式会社は、証券発行新株予約権を発行した日以後遅滞なく、当該証券発行新株予約権に係る新株予約権証券を発行しなければならない。 art-288/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-288/par-1 A stock company must, without delay after the day of issue of share options for which certificates are issued, issue share option certificates representing the share options for which certificates are issued. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、株式会社は、新株予約権者から請求がある時までは、同項の新株予約権証券を発行しないことができる。 art-288/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-288/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a stock company may elect to not deliver the share option certificates under that paragraph until the share option holders so request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-288/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第二百八十八条第一項 (Article 288, paragraph (1)), art-288/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-288/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二百八十八条第二項（新株予約権証券の発行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-288/par-2 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第十四号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-14 --- ## 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 224 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17