# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百七十六条 (Article 476) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-476. 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: 第四百七十六条 (Article 476)（清算株式会社の能力） — address `art-476` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-476 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-476 - 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. --- ### 第四百七十六条（清算株式会社の能力） — (Capacity of liquidating Stock Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-476 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-476 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-476 **第一項** 前条の規定により清算をする株式会社（以下「清算株式会社」という。）は、清算の目的の範囲内において、清算が結了するまではなお存続するものとみなす。 art-476/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-476/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-476/par-1 Stock companies that go into liquidation under the provisions of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "liquidating stock companies") are deemed to remain in existence until the liquidation is completed, to the extent of the purpose of the liquidation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-476/par-1: 前条 → 会社法 第四百七十五条 (Article 475), art-475 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-475 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-475 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百二十二条第三項（日本にある外国会社の財産についての清算） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-822/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-822/par-3 - 銀行法 第五十一条第三項（外国銀行支店の清算） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-51/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-51/par-3 --- ## 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