# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百十六条 (Article 516) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-516. 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: 第五百十六条 (Article 516)（担保権の実行の手続等の中止命令） — address `art-516` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-516 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-516 - 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. --- ### 第五百十六条（担保権の実行の手続等の中止命令） — (Order to Suspend Procedures to Enforce Security Interests) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-516 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-516 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-516 **第一項** 裁判所は、特別清算開始の命令があった場合において、債権者の一般の利益に適合し、かつ、担保権の実行の手続等（清算株式会社の財産につき存する担保権の実行の手続、企業担保権の実行の手続又は清算株式会社の財産に対して既にされている一般の先取特権その他一般の優先権がある債権に基づく強制執行の手続をいう。以下この条において同じ。）の申立人に不当な損害を及ぼすおそれがないものと認めるときは、清算人、監査役、債権者若しくは株主の申立てにより又は職権で、相当の期間を定めて、担保権の実行の手続等の中止を命ずることができる。 art-516/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-516/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-516/par-1 If the court issues an order to commence special liquidation, the court may, in response to a petition by the liquidators, company auditors, creditors or shareholders or ex officio, prescribing a reasonable period of time, order the suspension of procedures to enforce a security interest if the court finds that it suits the general interests of the creditors and those who petitioned for the procedures to enforce the security interest (meaning procedures to enforce the security interest the assets of the liquidating stock company, procedures to enforce charge on whole company assets or judicial enforcement procedures based on the general liens and other claims that have general priority that have already been enforced against the assets of the liquidating stock company; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) are not likely to suffer undue loss. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-516/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第五百十六条 (Article 516), art-516 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-516 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-516 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百十六条第一項（担保権の実行の手続等の中止命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-516/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-516/par-1 - 会社法 第八百九十一条第一項（担保権の実行の手続等の中止命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-891/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-891/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 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17