# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百九十九条 (Article 499) - 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: 第四百九十九条 (Article 499)（債権者に対する公告等） — address `art-499` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-499 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-499 - 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. --- ### 第四百九十九条（債権者に対する公告等） — (Public Notices to Creditors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-499 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-499 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-499 **第一項** 清算株式会社は、第四百七十五条各号に掲げる場合に該当することとなった後、遅滞なく、当該清算株式会社の債権者に対し、一定の期間内にその債権を申し出るべき旨を官報に公告し、かつ、知れている債権者には、各別にこれを催告しなければならない。ただし、当該期間は、二箇月を下ることができない。 art-499/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-499/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-499/par-1 A liquidating stock company must, without delay after having fallen under each item of Article 475, give public notice in Official Gazette to the creditors of relevant liquidating stock companies to the effect that creditors should state their claims during a certain period of time and must give the notices separately to each known creditor, if any; provided, however, that relevant period cannot be less than two months. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による公告には、当該債権者が当該期間内に申出をしないときは清算から除斥される旨を付記しなければならない。 art-499/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-499/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-499/par-2 The public notice pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must contain a notation to the effect that relevant creditors are excluded from the liquidation unless they state their claims during the period of time. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-499/par-1: 第四百七十五条 → 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 - art-499/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第四百九十九条第一項 (Article 499, paragraph (1)), art-499/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-499/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-499/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百九十九条第二項（債権者に対する公告等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-499/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-499/par-2 - 会社法 第五百条第一項（債務の弁済の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-500/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-500/par-1 - 会社法 第五百条第二項（債務の弁済の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-500/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-500/par-2 - 会社法 第五百三条第一項（清算からの除斥） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-503/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-503/par-1 - 会社法 第七百十四条の四第一項第三号（社債管理補助者の権限等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714-4/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714-4/par-1/item-3 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第二十八号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-976/par-1/item-28 --- ## 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