# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百二条 (Article 702) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-702. 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: 第七百二条 (Article 702)（社債管理者の設置） — address `art-702` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-702 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-702 - 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. --- ### 第七百二条（社債管理者の設置） — (Establishment of Bond Administrators) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-702 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-702 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-702 **第一項** 会社は、社債を発行する場合には、社債管理者を定め、社債権者のために、弁済の受領、債権の保全その他の社債の管理を行うことを委託しなければならない。ただし、各社債の金額が一億円以上である場合その他社債権者の保護に欠けるおそれがないものとして法務省令で定める場合は、この限りでない。 art-702/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-702/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-702/par-1 If a company will issue bonds, the company must specify a bond administrator and entrust the receipt of payments, the preservation of rights of claim on behalf of the bondholders and other administration of the bonds to that manager; provided, however, that this does not apply if the amount of each bond is 100,000,000 yen or more, and other cases prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order as cases where it is unlikely that the protection of bondholders will be compromised. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第七百十一条第二項（社債管理者の辞任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-711/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-711/par-2 - 会社法 第七百十四条の二第一項（社債管理補助者の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714-2/par-1 - 会社法 第七百十四条の六第一項（社債管理者等との関係） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714-6/par-1 - 会社法 第七百十四条の七第一項（社債管理者に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714-7/par-1 - 会社法 第七百四十条第二項（債権者の異議手続の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-740/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-740/par-2 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第三十三号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-976/par-1/item-33 - 金融商品取引法 第三十六条の四第一項（社債の管理の禁止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-36-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-36-4/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十二第二項（債権者の異議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-12/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の十二第八項（債権者の異議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-12/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-12/par-8 --- ## 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