# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百六十三条 (Article 663) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-663. 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: 第六百六十三条 (Article 663)（出資の履行の請求） — address `art-663` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-663 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-663 - 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. --- ### 第六百六十三条（出資の履行の請求） — (Demand for Performance of Contributions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-663 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-663 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-663 **第一項** 清算持分会社に現存する財産がその債務を完済するのに足りない場合において、その出資の全部又は一部を履行していない社員があるときは、当該出資に係る定款の定めにかかわらず、当該清算持分会社は、当該社員に出資させることができる。 art-663/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-663/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-663/par-1 If the current assets of a liquidating membership company are not sufficient to fully discharge its debts, if there are members who have not performed all or part of their contributions, relevant liquidating membership company may have the members make their contributions, notwithstanding the provisions of the articles of incorporation relating to those contributions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第百八十二条第一項（社員の出資責任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-182/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-182/par-1 - 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 - 金融商品取引法 第百条の十七第一項（会社法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-100-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-100-17/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百二条の三十七第一項（会社法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-102-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-102-37/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