# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百七十二条 (Article 572) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-572. 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: 第五百七十二条 (Article 572)（協定の内容の変更） — address `art-572` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-572 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-572 - 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. --- ### 第五百七十二条（協定の内容の変更） — (Change of Details of Agreements) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-572 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-572 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-572 **第一項** 協定の実行上必要があるときは、協定の内容を変更することができる。この場合においては、第五百六十三条から前条までの規定を準用する。 art-572/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-572/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-572/par-1 The details of an agreement may be changed if it is necessary for the implantation of the agreement. In these cases, the provisions of Article 563 through the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-572/par-1: 第五百六十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百六十三条 (Article 563), art-563 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-563 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-563 - art-572/par-1: 第五百六十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百六十四条 (Article 564), art-564 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-564 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-564 - art-572/par-1: 第五百六十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百六十五条 (Article 565), art-565 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-565 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-565 - art-572/par-1: 第五百六十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百六十六条 (Article 566), art-566 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-566 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-566 - art-572/par-1: 第五百六十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百六十七条 (Article 567), art-567 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-567 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-567 - art-572/par-1: 第五百六十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百六十八条 (Article 568), art-568 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-568 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-568 - art-572/par-1: 第五百六十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百六十九条 (Article 569), art-569 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-569 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-569 - art-572/par-1: 第五百六十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百七十条 (Article 570), art-570 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-570 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-570 - art-572/par-1: 第五百六十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百七十一条 (Article 571), art-571 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-571 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-571 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百一条第五項（協定の認可又は不認可の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-901/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-901/par-5 --- ## 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