# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百条 (Article 800) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-800. 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: 第八百条 (Article 800)（消滅会社等の株主等に対して交付する金銭等が存続株式会社等の親会社株式である場合の特則） — address `art-800` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-800 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-800 - 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. --- ### 第八百条（消滅会社等の株主等に対して交付する金銭等が存続株式会社等の親会社株式である場合の特則） — (Special Provisions on Cases Where the Monies to Be Delivered to Shareholders of the Disappearing Company Are the Parent Company's Shares of the Surviving Stock Company) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-800 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-800 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-800 **第一項** 第百三十五条第一項の規定にかかわらず、吸収合併消滅株式会社若しくは株式交換完全子会社の株主、吸収合併消滅持分会社の社員又は吸収分割会社（以下この項において「消滅会社等の株主等」という。）に対して交付する金銭等の全部又は一部が存続株式会社等の親会社株式（同条第一項に規定する親会社株式をいう。以下この条において同じ。）である場合には、当該存続株式会社等は、吸収合併等に際して消滅会社等の株主等に対して交付する当該親会社株式の総数を超えない範囲において当該親会社株式を取得することができる。 art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-800/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 135, paragraph (1), if all or part of the monies, etc. to be delivered to shareholders of the stock company disappearing in an absorption-type merger or the wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from a share exchange, to members of the membership company disappearing in the absorption-type merger or to the company splitting in the absorption-type split (hereinafter referred to as "shareholders, etc. of the disappearing company, etc." in this paragraph) are the parent company's shares (meaning the parent company's shares prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) of the surviving stock company, etc., the surviving stock company, etc. may acquire relevant parent company's shares in a number not exceeding the total number of relevant parent company's shares to be delivered to the shareholders, etc. of the disappearing company, etc. at the time of the absorption-type merger, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百三十五条第三項の規定にかかわらず、前項の存続株式会社等は、効力発生日までの間は、存続株式会社等の親会社株式を保有することができる。ただし、吸収合併等を中止したときは、この限りでない。 art-800/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-800/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-800/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 135, paragraph (3), the surviving stock company, etc. referred to in the preceding paragraph may hold the parent company's shares of the surviving stock company, etc. until the effective day; provided, however, that this does not apply when the absorption-type merger, etc. is cancelled. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-800/par-1: 第百三十五条第一項 → 会社法 第百三十五条第一項 (Article 135, paragraph (1)), art-135/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-135/par-1 - art-800/par-1: この項 → 会社法 第八百条第一項 (Article 800, paragraph (1)), art-800/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-800/par-1 - art-800/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第八百条 (Article 800), art-800 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-800 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-800 - art-800/par-2: 第百三十五条第三項 → 会社法 第百三十五条第三項 (Article 135, paragraph (3)), art-135/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-135/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-135/par-3 - art-800/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第八百条第一項 (Article 800, paragraph (1)), art-800/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-800/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百条第一項（消滅会社等の株主等に対して交付する金銭等が存続株式会社等の親会社株式である場合の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-800/par-1 - 会社法 第八百条第二項（消滅会社等の株主等に対して交付する金銭等が存続株式会社等の親会社株式である場合の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-800/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-800/par-2 - 会社法 第八百二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802/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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4482/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