# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百一条 (Article 601) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-601. 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: 第六百一条 (Article 601)（持分会社と社員との間の訴えにおける会社の代表） — address `art-601` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-601 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-601 - 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. --- ### 第六百一条（持分会社と社員との間の訴えにおける会社の代表） — (Representation of Companies in Claims between Membership Companies without Share and Members) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-601 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-601 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-601 **第一項** 第五百九十九条第四項の規定にかかわらず、持分会社が社員に対し、又は社員が持分会社に対して訴えを提起する場合において、当該訴えについて持分会社を代表する者（当該社員を除く。）が存しないときは、当該社員以外の社員の過半数をもって、当該訴えについて持分会社を代表する者を定めることができる。 art-601/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-601/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-601/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 599, paragraph (4), if a membership company files an action against any of its members, or any of the members files an action against that membership company, if there is no representative of the membership company with respect to relevant action (excluding the relevant member), the representative of the membership company in relevant action may be determined by a majority of the members other than relevant member. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-601/par-1: 第五百九十九条第四項 → 会社法 第五百九十九条第四項 (Article 599, paragraph (4)), art-599/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-599/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-599/par-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第一項（一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律及び会社法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-25/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