# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百三十六条 (Article 536) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536. 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: 第五百三十六条 (Article 536)（事業の譲渡の制限等） — address `art-536` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五百三十六条（事業の譲渡の制限等） — (Restrictions on the Transfer of Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-536 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536 **第一項** 特別清算開始の命令があった場合には、清算株式会社が次に掲げる行為をするには、裁判所の許可を得なければならない。 art-536/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-1 If an order for commencement of special liquidation is issued, if a liquidating stock company intends to carry out any act set forth below, it must obtain the permission of the court: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 事業の全部の譲渡 art-536/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-1/item-1 transfer of the entire business; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 事業の重要な一部の譲渡（当該譲渡により譲り渡す資産の帳簿価額が当該清算株式会社の総資産額として法務省令で定める方法により算定される額の五分の一（これを下回る割合を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その割合）を超えないものを除く。） art-536/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-1/item-2 transfer of significant part of the business (excluding the transfer in which the book value of the assets to be transferred by relevant transfer does not exceed one fifth (or, if any lower proportion is provided for in the articles of incorporation, the proportion) of the amount calculated by the method prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order as the total amount of the assets of relevant stock company); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** その子会社の株式又は持分の全部又は一部の譲渡（次のいずれにも該当する場合における譲渡に限る。） art-536/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-1/item-3 transfer of all or part of shares or equity interests of the subsidiary company (limited to transfer in cases falling under all of the following): Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **イ** 当該譲渡により譲り渡す株式又は持分の帳簿価額が当該清算株式会社の総資産額として法務省令で定める方法により算定される額の五分の一（これを下回る割合を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その割合）を超えるとき。 art-536/par-1/item-3/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-1/item-3/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-1/item-3/sub-1 if the book value of shares or equity interests to be transferred by the transfer exceeds one-fifth (if any proportion less than that is provided for in the articles of incorporation, the proportion) of the amount calculated by the method prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order as the total assets of the liquidating stock company; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **ロ** 当該清算株式会社が、当該譲渡がその効力を生ずる日において当該子会社の議決権の総数の過半数の議決権を有しないとき。 art-536/par-1/item-3/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-1/item-3/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-1/item-3/sub-2 if the liquidating stock company does not have a majority of the total votes of the subsidiary company on the effective day. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第三項の規定は、前項の許可を得ないでした行為について準用する。 art-536/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the acts committed without the permission under the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第七章（第四百六十七条第一項第五号を除く。）の規定は、特別清算の場合には、適用しない。 art-536/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-3 The provisions of Chapter VII (excluding Article 467, paragraph (1), item (v)) do not apply to the cases of special liquidation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-536/par-2: 前条第三項 → 会社法 第五百三十五条第三項 (Article 535, paragraph (3)), art-535/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-535/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-535/par-3 - art-536/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第五百三十六条第一項 (Article 536, paragraph (1)), art-536/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-1 - art-536/par-3: 第四百六十七条第一項第五号 → 会社法 第四百六十七条第一項第五号 (Article 467, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-467/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-467/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-467/par-1/item-5 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百三十五条第一項第一号（清算株式会社の行為の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-535/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-535/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第五百三十六条第二項（事業の譲渡の制限等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-2 - 会社法 第八百八十七条第一項第二号（支障部分の閲覧等の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-887/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-887/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第八百九十六条第一項（事業の譲渡の許可の申立て） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-896/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-896/par-1 - 会社法 第八百九十六条第二項（事業の譲渡の許可の申立て） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-896/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-896/par-2 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第三十一号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-976/par-1/item-31 - 会社法 附則第十七条第一項（子会社の株式又は持分の譲渡に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/suppl-4261-90/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/suppl-4261-90/art-17/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