# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百三十一条 (Article 631) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-631. 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: 第六百三十一条 (Article 631)（欠損が生じた場合の責任） — address `art-631` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-631 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第六百三十一条（欠損が生じた場合の責任） — (Liability in Cases of Deficit) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-631 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-631 **第一項** 合同会社が利益の配当をした場合において、当該利益の配当をした日の属する事業年度の末日に欠損額（合同会社の欠損の額として法務省令で定める方法により算定される額をいう。以下この項において同じ。）が生じたときは、当該利益の配当に関する業務を執行した社員は、当該合同会社に対し、当該利益の配当を受けた社員と連帯して、その欠損額（当該欠損額が配当額を超えるときは、当該配当額）を支払う義務を負う。ただし、当該業務を執行した社員がその職務を行うについて注意を怠らなかったことを証明した場合は、この限りでない。 art-631/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-631/par-1 If a limited liability company effects the distribution of profits, if a deficit (meaning the amount calculated by the method prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order as the amount of the deficit of the limited liability company; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) occurs at the end of the business year that contains the day on which relevant distribution of profit takes place, members that executed the operations in connection with relevant distribution of profit with respect to relevant distributed amount are jointly and severally liable to relevant limited liability company, together with the members who received relevant distribution of profit, for payment of the amount of that deficit (or, if the amount of relevant deficit exceeds the distributed amount, relevant distributed amount); provided, however, that this does not apply if relevant members who executed relevant operations have proven that they did not fail to exercise due care with respect to the performance of their duties: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の義務は、総社員の同意がなければ、免除することができない。 art-631/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-631/par-2 Exemption from the obligations in the preceding paragraph cannot be given without the consent of all members. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-631/par-1: この項 → 会社法 第六百三十一条第一項 (Article 631, paragraph (1)), art-631/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-631/par-1 - art-631/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第六百三十一条第一項 (Article 631, paragraph (1)), art-631/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-631/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百三十一条第一項（欠損が生じた場合の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-631/par-1 - 会社法 第六百三十一条第二項（欠損が生じた場合の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-631/par-2 --- ## 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 224 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17