# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百六十二条 (Article 562) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-562. 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: 第五百六十二条 (Article 562)（清算人の調査結果等の債権者集会に対する報告） — address `art-562` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-562 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-562 - 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. --- ### 第五百六十二条（清算人の調査結果等の債権者集会に対する報告） — (Report to Creditors Meetings of the Outcome of Liquidators' Investigations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-562 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-562 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-562 **第一項** 特別清算開始の命令があった場合において、第四百九十二条第一項に規定する清算人が清算株式会社の財産の現況についての調査を終了して財産目録等（同項に規定する財産目録等をいう。以下この条において同じ。）を作成したときは、清算株式会社は、遅滞なく、債権者集会を招集し、当該債権者集会に対して、清算株式会社の業務及び財産の状況の調査の結果並びに財産目録等の要旨を報告するとともに、清算の実行の方針及び見込みに関して意見を述べなければならない。ただし、債権者集会に対する報告及び意見の陳述以外の方法によりその報告すべき事項及び当該意見の内容を債権者に周知させることが適当であると認めるときは、この限りでない。 art-562/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-562/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-562/par-1 If an order is issued for the commencement of special liquidation, if the liquidators provided for in Article 492, paragraph (1) have completed the investigations of the current status of the property of the liquidating stock companies and have prepared the inventory of property (meaning the inventory of property provided for in that paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), the liquidating stock company must, without delay, convene the creditors meeting and report to relevant creditors meeting the outcome of the investigations of the status of the operations and assets of the liquidating stock companies as well as the summary of the inventory of property, and state its opinions regarding the policy and prospect of the implementation of the liquidation; provided, however, that this does not apply if the liquidating stock company regards it as appropriate to make the creditors aware of the content of the matters to be reported and relevant opinions by means other than the statement of the report and opinions to the creditors meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-562/par-1: 第四百九十二条第一項 → 会社法 第四百九十二条第一項 (Article 492, paragraph (1)), art-492/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-492/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-492/par-1 - art-562/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第五百六十二条 (Article 562), art-562 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-562 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-562 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百六十二条第一項（清算人の調査結果等の債権者集会に対する報告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-562/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-562/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