# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百三十条の三 (Article 430-3) - 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: 第四百三十条の三 (Article 430-3)（役員等のために締結される保険契約） — address `art-430-3` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-430-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-430-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四百三十条の三（役員等のために締結される保険契約） — (Insurance Policies Concluded for the Benefit of Officers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-430-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-430-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-430-3 **第一項** 株式会社が、保険者との間で締結する保険契約のうち役員等がその職務の執行に関し責任を負うこと又は当該責任の追及に係る請求を受けることによって生ずることのある損害を保険者が塡補することを約するものであって、役員等を被保険者とするもの（当該保険契約を締結することにより被保険者である役員等の職務の執行の適正性が著しく損なわれるおそれがないものとして法務省令で定めるものを除く。第三項ただし書において「役員等賠償責任保険契約」という。）の内容の決定をするには、株主総会（取締役会設置会社にあっては、取締役会）の決議によらなければならない。 art-430-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-430-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-430-3/par-1 When a stock company makes a decision on the content of an insurance policy entered into with an insurer under which the insurer promises to pay compensation for damage arising from officer, etc. bearing liability in relation to the execution of duties or the receipt of a demand pursuing relevant liability where officers, etc. are the insureds (excluding policies specified by the applicable Order of the Ministry of Justice as policies where there is no likelihood of substantial impairment of the appropriateness of the execution of duties by officers, etc. who are insured as a result of the execution of the insurance policies; referred to in the proviso of paragraph (3) as "officers, etc. indemnification insurance policy"), a resolution at the shareholders meeting (or at a board of directors meeting for a company with board of directors) must be adopted. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三百五十六条第一項及び第三百六十五条第二項（これらの規定を第四百十九条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）並びに第四百二十三条第三項の規定は、株式会社が保険者との間で締結する保険契約のうち役員等がその職務の執行に関し責任を負うこと又は当該責任の追及に係る請求を受けることによって生ずることのある損害を保険者が塡補することを約するものであって、取締役又は執行役を被保険者とするものの締結については、適用しない。 art-430-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-430-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-430-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 356, paragraph (1), Article 365, paragraph (2) (including when these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 419, paragraph (2)) and Article 423, paragraph (3) do not apply with respect to execution of insurance policies by a stock company with an insurer under which the insurer promises to pay compensation for damage arising from a director bearing liability in relation to the execution of duties or the receipt of a demand pursuing relevant liability where directors or executive officers are the insureds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 民法第百八条の規定は、前項の保険契約の締結については、適用しない。ただし、当該契約が役員等賠償責任保険契約である場合には、第一項の決議によってその内容が定められたときに限る。 art-430-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-430-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-430-3/par-3 The provisions of Article 108 of the Civil Code do not apply to the execution of insurance policies under the preceding paragraph;provided, however, that if the policy is officers, etc. indemnification insurance policy, this is limited to times where the content of relevant policy is specified by a resolution set forth in paragraph (1). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-430-3/par-1: 第三項 → 会社法 第四百三十条の三第三項 (Article 430-3, paragraph (3)), art-430-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-430-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-430-3/par-3 - art-430-3/par-2: 第三百五十六条第一項 → 会社法 第三百五十六条第一項 (Article 356, paragraph (1)), art-356/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-356/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-356/par-1 - art-430-3/par-2: 第三百六十五条第二項 → 会社法 第三百六十五条第二項 (Article 365, paragraph (2)), art-365/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-365/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-365/par-2 - art-430-3/par-2: 第四百十九条第二項 → 会社法 第四百十九条第二項 (Article 419, paragraph (2)), art-419/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-419/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-419/par-2 - art-430-3/par-2: 第四百二十三条第三項 → 会社法 第四百二十三条第三項 (Article 423, paragraph (3)), art-423/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-423/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-423/par-3 - art-430-3/par-3: 民法第百八条 → 民法 第百八条 (Article 108), art-108 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-108 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-108 - art-430-3/par-3: 前項 → 会社法 第四百三十条の三第二項 (Article 430-3, paragraph (2)), art-430-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-430-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-430-3/par-2 - art-430-3/par-3: 第一項 → 会社法 第四百三十条の三第一項 (Article 430-3, paragraph (1)), art-430-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-430-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-430-3/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百九十九条の十三第五項第十三号（監査等委員会設置会社の取締役会の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-399-13/par-5/item-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-399-13/par-5/item-13 - 会社法 第四百三十条の三第一項（役員等のために締結される保険契約） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-430-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-430-3/par-1 - 会社法 第四百三十条の三第三項（役員等のために締結される保険契約） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-430-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-430-3/par-3 - 会社法 附則第七条第一項（役員等のために締結される保険契約に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/suppl-5011-70/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/suppl-5011-70/art-7/par-1 --- ## 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 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch companies-act-20260917T143643-001, translated 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17