# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百十二条 (Article 612) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-612. 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: 第六百十二条 (Article 612)（退社した社員の責任） — address `art-612` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-612 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-612 - 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. --- ### 第六百十二条（退社した社員の責任） — (Liability of Withdrawn Members) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-612 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-612 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-612 **第一項** 退社した社員は、その登記をする前に生じた持分会社の債務について、従前の責任の範囲内でこれを弁済する責任を負う。 art-612/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-612/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-612/par-1 A member that has withdrawn is liable for the obligations of the membership company that arose before the registration of the withdrawal to the extent of the member's pre-existing liability. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の責任は、同項の登記後二年以内に請求又は請求の予告をしない持分会社の債権者に対しては、当該登記後二年を経過した時に消滅する。 art-612/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-612/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-612/par-2 The liability under the preceding paragraph is extinguished when two years have elapsed from the day of the registration under the preceding paragraph in relation to the creditors of the membership company who do not state their claims, or do not give an advance notice of their claims within two years from the day of relevant registration. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-612/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第六百十二条第一項 (Article 612, paragraph (1)), art-612/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-612/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-612/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百十二条第二項（退社した社員の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-612/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-612/par-2 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の十五の三第六項（社員の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-15-3/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-15-3/par-6 --- ## 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