# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百二十二条 (Article 422) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-422. 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: 第四百二十二条 (Article 422)（株主による執行役の行為の差止め） — address `art-422` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-422 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-422 - 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. --- ### 第四百二十二条（株主による執行役の行為の差止め） — (Enjoinment of Acts of Executive Officers by Shareholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-422 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-422 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-422 **第一項** 六箇月（これを下回る期間を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その期間）前から引き続き株式を有する株主は、執行役が指名委員会等設置会社の目的の範囲外の行為その他法令若しくは定款に違反する行為をし、又はこれらの行為をするおそれがある場合において、当該行為によって当該指名委員会等設置会社に回復することができない損害が生ずるおそれがあるときは、当該執行役に対し、当該行為をやめることを請求することができる。 art-422/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-422/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-422/par-1 If an executive officer engages, or is likely to engage, in an act outside the scope of the purpose of a company with nominating committee, etc., or other acts in violation of laws and regulations or the articles of incorporation, if that act is likely to cause irreparable damage to the company with nominating committee, etc., shareholders having the shares consecutively for the preceding six months or more (or, if a shorter period is prescribed in the articles of incorporation, that period or more) may demand that the executive officer cease that act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公開会社でない指名委員会等設置会社における前項の規定の適用については、同項中「六箇月（これを下回る期間を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その期間）前から引き続き株式を有する株主」とあるのは、「株主」とする。 art-422/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-422/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-422/par-2 For the purpose of the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a company with nominating committee, etc. which is not a public company, the phrase "shareholders having the shares consecutively for the preceding six months or more (or, if a shorter period is prescribed in the articles of incorporation, that period or more)" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "shareholders". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-422/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第四百二十二条第一項 (Article 422, paragraph (1)), art-422/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-422/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-422/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百二十二条第二項（株主による執行役の行為の差止め） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-422/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-422/par-2 - 会社法 第九百六十八条第一項第二号（株主等の権利の行使に関する贈収賄罪） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-968/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-968/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17