# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百三十六条 (Article 736) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736. 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: 第七百三十六条 (Article 736)（代表社債権者の選任等） — address `art-736` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-736 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七百三十六条（代表社債権者の選任等） — (Appointment of Representative Bondholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-736 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-736 **第一項** 社債権者集会においては、その決議によって、当該種類の社債の総額（償還済みの額を除く。）の千分の一以上に当たる社債を有する社債権者の中から、一人又は二人以上の代表社債権者を選任し、これに社債権者集会において決議をする事項についての決定を委任することができる。 art-736/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-736/par-1 By a resolution at a bondholders meeting, one or more representative bondholders from among bondholders who hold bonds representing not less than one thousandth of the total amount of bonds of the relevant class (excluding amounts already redeemed) may be appointed, and decisions on the matters on which resolutions are to be passed at bondholders meetings may be entrusted to the representative bondholders. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七百十八条第二項の規定は、前項に規定する社債の総額について準用する。 art-736/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-736/par-2 The provisions of Article 718, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the total amount of the bonds provided for in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 代表社債権者が二人以上ある場合において、社債権者集会において別段の定めを行わなかったときは、第一項に規定する事項についての決定は、その過半数をもって行う。 art-736/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-736/par-3 If there are two or more representative bondholders, unless otherwise provided for at a bondholders meeting, the decisions on the matters provided for in paragraph (1) are made by a majority of those representative bondholders. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-736/par-2: 第七百十八条第二項 → 会社法 第七百十八条第二項 (Article 718, paragraph (2)), art-718/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-718/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-718/par-2 - art-736/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第七百三十六条第一項 (Article 736, paragraph (1)), art-736/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-736/par-1 - art-736/par-3: 第一項 → 会社法 第七百三十六条第一項 (Article 736, paragraph (1)), art-736/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-736/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第七百二十四条第二項第二号（社債権者集会の決議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-724/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-724/par-2/item-2 - 会社法 第七百三十六条第二項（代表社債権者の選任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-736/par-2 - 会社法 第七百三十六条第三項（代表社債権者の選任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-736/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-736/par-3 - 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 第七十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-78/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