# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百十四条 (Article 714) - 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: 第七百十四条 (Article 714)（社債管理者の事務の承継） — address `art-714` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七百十四条（社債管理者の事務の承継） — (Succession to Bond Administrator's Administration of Bonds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-714 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714 **第一項** 社債管理者が次のいずれかに該当することとなった場合において、他に社債管理者がないときは、社債発行会社は、事務を承継する社債管理者を定め、社債権者のために、社債の管理を行うことを委託しなければならない。この場合においては、社債発行会社は、社債権者集会の同意を得るため、遅滞なく、これを招集し、かつ、その同意を得ることができなかったときは、その同意に代わる裁判所の許可の申立てをしなければならない。 art-714/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-1 If a bond administrator has fallen under any of the following circumstances, if there is no other bond administrator, the bond-issuing company must specify a bond administrator to succeed to the administration of the bonds, and entrust the administration of the bonds to the person on behalf of the bondholders. In these cases, the bond-issuing company must convene a bondholders meeting without delay in order to obtain the consent of the same, and if the consent cannot be obtained, must file a petition for the permission of the court in lieu of that consent: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第七百三条各号に掲げる者でなくなったとき。 art-714/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-1/item-1 if the bond administrator is no longer a person set forth in any item of Article 703; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第七百十一条第三項の規定により辞任したとき。 art-714/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-1/item-2 if the bond administrator has resigned under the provisions of Article 711, paragraph (3); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前条の規定により解任されたとき。 art-714/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-1/item-3 if the bond administrator has been dismissed under the provisions of the preceding paragraph; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 解散したとき。 art-714/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-1/item-4 if the bond administrator has been dissolved. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 社債発行会社は、前項前段に規定する場合において、同項各号のいずれかに該当することとなった日後二箇月以内に、同項後段の規定による招集をせず、又は同項後段の申立てをしなかったときは、当該社債の総額について期限の利益を喪失する。 art-714/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-2 In the cases provided for in the first sentence of the preceding paragraph, if a bond-issuing company does not convene a meeting under the provisions of the second sentence of that paragraph or file a petition under the second sentence of that paragraph within two months of the day on which the bond-issuing company fell under any of the circumstances in each item of that paragraph, the bond-issuing company will forfeit the benefit of time in relation to the total amount of relevant bonds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項前段に規定する場合において、やむを得ない事由があるときは、利害関係人は、裁判所に対し、事務を承継する社債管理者の選任の申立てをすることができる。 art-714/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-3 In the cases provided for in the first sentence of paragraph (1), if there are unavoidable reasons, interested parties may petition the court for the appointment of a bond administrator to succeed to the administration of the bonds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 社債発行会社は、第一項前段の規定により事務を承継する社債管理者を定めた場合（社債権者集会の同意を得た場合を除く。）又は前項の規定による事務を承継する社債管理者の選任があった場合には、遅滞なく、その旨を公告し、かつ、知れている社債権者には、各別にこれを通知しなければならない。 art-714/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-4 If a bond-issuing company has specified the bond administrator to succeed to the administration of the bonds pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of paragraph (1) (excluding cases where the consent of a bondholders meeting has been obtained), or if a bond administrator has been appointed to succeed to the administration of the bonds under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the bond-issuing company must, without delay, give public notice to that effect and separate notice thereof to each known bondholder. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-714/par-1/item-1: 第七百三条 → 会社法 第七百三条 (Article 703), art-703 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-703 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-703 - art-714/par-1/item-2: 第七百十一条第三項 → 会社法 第七百十一条第三項 (Article 711, paragraph (3)), art-711/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-711/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-711/par-3 - art-714/par-1/item-3: 前条 → 会社法 第七百十三条 (Article 713), art-713 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-713 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-713 - art-714/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第七百十四条第一項 (Article 714, paragraph (1)), art-714/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-1 - art-714/par-3: 第一項 → 会社法 第七百十四条第一項 (Article 714, paragraph (1)), art-714/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-1 - art-714/par-4: 第一項 → 会社法 第七百十四条第一項 (Article 714, paragraph (1)), art-714/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-1 - art-714/par-4: 前項 → 会社法 第七百十四条第三項 (Article 714, paragraph (3)), art-714/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-3 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第七百十四条第二項（社債管理者の事務の承継） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-2 - 会社法 第七百十四条第三項（社債管理者の事務の承継） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-3 - 会社法 第七百十四条第四項（社債管理者の事務の承継） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-714/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714/par-4 - 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 第八百六十八条第四項（非訟事件の管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-868/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-868/par-4 - 会社法 第八百七十四条第一項第一号（不服申立ての制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-874/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-874/par-1/item-1 - 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 - 医療法 第五十四条の七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-7/par-1 - 医療法 第九十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-91/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 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17