# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百四十五条 (Article 645) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-645. 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: 第六百四十五条 (Article 645)（清算持分会社の能力） — address `art-645` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-645 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-645 - 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. --- ### 第六百四十五条（清算持分会社の能力） — (Capacity of Liquidating Membership Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-645 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-645 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-645 **第一項** 前条の規定により清算をする持分会社（以下「清算持分会社」という。）は、清算の目的の範囲内において、清算が結了するまではなお存続するものとみなす。 art-645/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-645/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-645/par-1 membership companies that go into liquidation themselves under the provisions of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "liquidating membership companies") are deemed to remain in existence until the completion of liquidation to the extent of the purpose of the liquidation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-645/par-1: 前条 → 会社法 第六百四十四条 (Article 644), art-644 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-644 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-644 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百六十三条第二項（清算持分会社の財産処分の取消しの訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-863/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-863/par-2 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-25/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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17