# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百三十四条 (Article 334) - 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: 第三百三十四条 (Article 334)（会計参与の任期） — address `art-334` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-334 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-334 - 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. --- ### 第三百三十四条（会計参与の任期） — (Accounting Advisors' Terms of Office) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-334 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-334 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-334 **第一項** 第三百三十二条（第四項及び第五項を除く。次項において同じ。）の規定は、会計参与の任期について準用する。 art-334/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-334/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-334/par-1 The provisions of Article 332 (excluding paragraphs (4) and (5); the same applies in the following paragraph) apply mutatis mutandis to the accounting advisors' terms of office. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項において準用する第三百三十二条の規定にかかわらず、会計参与設置会社が会計参与を置く旨の定款の定めを廃止する定款の変更をした場合には、会計参与の任期は、当該定款の変更の効力が生じた時に満了する。 art-334/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-334/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-334/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 332 applied mutatis mutandis under the preceding paragraph, if a company with accounting advisor effects an amendment in the articles of incorporation to repeal the provisions of the articles of incorporation to the effect that it has an accounting advisor, the accounting advisor's term of office expires when relevant amendment in the articles of incorporation takes effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-334/par-1: 第三百三十二条 → 会社法 第三百三十二条 (Article 332), art-332 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-332 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-332 - art-334/par-1: 第四項 → 会社法 第三百三十二条第四項 (Article 332, paragraph (4)), art-332/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-332/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-332/par-4 - art-334/par-1: 第五項 → 会社法 第三百三十二条第五項 (Article 332, paragraph (5)), art-332/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-332/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-332/par-5 - art-334/par-1: 次項 → 会社法 第三百三十四条第二項 (Article 334, paragraph (2)), art-334/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-334/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-334/par-2 - art-334/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百三十四条第一項 (Article 334, paragraph (1)), art-334/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-334/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-334/par-1 - art-334/par-2: 第三百三十二条 → 会社法 第三百三十二条 (Article 332), art-332 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-332 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-332 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百三十四条第一項（会計参与の任期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-334/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-334/par-1 - 会社法 第三百三十四条第二項（会計参与の任期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-334/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-334/par-2 - 資金決済に関する法律 第六十八条第一項（会社法の適用関係） — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-68/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第三十一条の五第一項（取締役等の適格性等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-31-5/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百四条の二第一項（取締役等の適格性等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-104-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-104-2/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の十四第四項（役員の欠格事由等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-14/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-14/par-4 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の三十第二項（代表取締役等の適格性等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-30/par-2 - 銀行法 第七条の二第四項（取締役等の適格性等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-7-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-7-2/par-4 - 銀行法 第五十二条の十九第四項（銀行持株会社の取締役の兼職の制限等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-19/par-4 --- ## 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