# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百三十五条 (Article 335) - 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: 第三百三十五条 (Article 335)（監査役の資格等） — address `art-335` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-335 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-335 - 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. --- ### 第三百三十五条（監査役の資格等） — (Qualifications of Company Auditors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-335 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-335 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-335 **第一項** 第三百三十一条第一項及び第二項並びに第三百三十一条の二の規定は、監査役について準用する。 art-335/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-335/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-335/par-1 The provisions of Article 331, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) and Article 331-2 apply mutatis mutandis to company auditors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 監査役は、株式会社若しくはその子会社の取締役若しくは支配人その他の使用人又は当該子会社の会計参与（会計参与が法人であるときは、その職務を行うべき社員）若しくは執行役を兼ねることができない。 art-335/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-335/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-335/par-2 A company auditor of a stock company may not concurrently act as a director, employee, including manager, of that stock company or its subsidiary company, and may not act as an accounting advisor (if the accounting advisor is a corporation, the member who is in charge of its affairs) or an executive officer of relevant subsidiary company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 監査役会設置会社においては、監査役は、三人以上で、そのうち半数以上は、社外監査役でなければならない。 art-335/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-335/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-335/par-3 A company with board of company auditors must have three or more company auditors, and the half or more of them must be outside company auditors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-335/par-1: 第三百三十一条第一項 → 会社法 第三百三十一条第一項 (Article 331, paragraph (1)), art-331/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-331/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-331/par-1 - art-335/par-1: 第二項 → 会社法 第三百三十一条第二項 (Article 331, paragraph (2)), art-331/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-331/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-331/par-2 - art-335/par-1: 第三百三十一条の二 → 会社法 第三百三十一条の二 (Article 331-2), art-331-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-331-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-331-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三十九条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-39/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-39/par-4 - 会社法 第四百七十八条第七項（清算人の就任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-478/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-478/par-7 - 会社法 第四百九十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-491/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-491/par-1 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第二十号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-976/par-1/item-20 - 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 - 銀行法 第七条の二第三項（取締役等の適格性等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-7-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-7-2/par-3 - 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