# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百条 (Article 400) - 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: 第四百条 (Article 400)（委員の選定等） — address `art-400` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-400 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-400 - 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. --- ### 第四百条（委員の選定等） — (Appointment of Committee Members) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-400 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-400 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-400 **第一項** 指名委員会、監査委員会又は報酬委員会の各委員会（以下この条、次条及び第九百十一条第三項第二十三号ロにおいて単に「各委員会」という。）は、委員三人以上で組織する。 art-400/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-400/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-400/par-1 Each committee, including the nominating committee, audit committee, or remuneration committee (hereinafter collectively referred to as "each committee" in this Article, the following Article, and Article 911, paragraph (3), item (xxiii), (b)) is composed of three or more committee members. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 各委員会の委員は、取締役の中から、取締役会の決議によって選定する。 art-400/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-400/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-400/par-2 The committee members of each committee are appointed from among the directors by a resolution at the board of directors meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 各委員会の委員の過半数は、社外取締役でなければならない。 art-400/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-400/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-400/par-3 The majority of the committee members of each committee must be outside directors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 監査委員会の委員（以下「監査委員」という。）は、指名委員会等設置会社若しくはその子会社の執行役若しくは業務執行取締役又は指名委員会等設置会社の子会社の会計参与（会計参与が法人であるときは、その職務を行うべき社員）若しくは支配人その他の使用人を兼ねることができない。 art-400/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-400/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-400/par-4 A committee member of the audit committee (hereinafter referred to as "audit committee member") may not concurrently act as an executive officer or executive directors of a company with nominating committee, etc. or its subsidiary company, or as an accounting advisor (if the accounting advisor is a corporation, the member who is to perform the duties of the accounting advisor) or employee, including a manager, of a subsidiary company of a company with nominating committee, etc.. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-400/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第四百条 (Article 400), art-400 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-400 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-400 - art-400/par-1: 次条 → 会社法 第四百一条 (Article 401), art-401 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-401 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-401 - art-400/par-1: 第九百十一条第三項第二十三号 → 会社法 第九百十一条第三項第二十三号 (Article 911, paragraph (3), item (xxiii)), art-911/par-3/item-23 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-911/par-3/item-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-911/par-3/item-23 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百条第一項（委員の選定等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-400/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-400/par-1 - 会社法 第四百一条第二項（委員の解職等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-401/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-401/par-2 - 会社法 第四百十六条第四項第九号（指名委員会等設置会社の取締役会の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-416/par-4/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-416/par-4/item-9 --- ## 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