# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百二条 (Article 802) - 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: 第八百二条 (Article 802) — address `art-802` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802 - 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. --- ### 第八百二条 art-802 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802 **第一項** 次の各号に掲げる行為をする持分会社（以下この条において「存続持分会社等」という。）は、当該各号に定める場合には、効力発生日の前日までに、吸収合併契約等について存続持分会社等の総社員の同意を得なければならない。ただし、定款に別段の定めがある場合は、この限りでない。 art-802/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802/par-1 A membership company conducting any one of the acts set forth in the following items (hereinafter referred to as the "surviving membership company, etc." in this Article) must, in the cases specified respectively in those items, obtain the consent of all members of the surviving membership company, etc. with regard to the absorption-type merger agreement, etc. by the day immediately preceding the effective day; provided, however, that this does not apply if it is otherwise provided for in the articles of incorporation: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 吸収合併（吸収合併により当該持分会社が存続する場合に限る。）　第七百五十一条第一項第二号に規定する場合 art-802/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802/par-1/item-1 absorption-type merger (limited to cases where the membership company survives in the absorption-type merger):the cases prescribed in Article 751, paragraph (1), item (ii); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 吸収分割による他の会社がその事業に関して有する権利義務の全部又は一部の承継　第七百六十条第四号に規定する場合 art-802/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802/par-1/item-2 succession of all or part of the rights and obligations held by another company in connection with its business through an absorption-type company split:the cases prescribed in Article 760, item (iv); or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 株式交換による株式会社の発行済株式の全部の取得　第七百七十条第一項第二号に規定する場合 art-802/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802/par-1/item-3 acquisition of all of the issued shares of a stock company through a share exchange:the cases prescribed in Article 770, paragraph (1), item (ii). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七百九十九条（第二項第三号を除く。）及び第八百条の規定は、存続持分会社等について準用する。この場合において、第七百九十九条第一項第三号中「株式交換完全親株式会社の株式」とあるのは「株式交換完全親合同会社の持分」と、「場合又は第七百六十八条第一項第四号ハに規定する場合」とあるのは「場合」と読み替えるものとする。 art-802/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802/par-2 The provisions of Article 799 (excluding paragraph (2), item (iii)) and Article 800 apply mutatis mutandis to a surviving membership company, etc. In these cases, the term "shares in the wholly owning parent stock company resulting from the share exchange" in Article 799, paragraph (1), item (iii) is deemed to be replaced with "equity interest in the wholly owning parent limited liability company resulting from the share exchange", and the phrase "thereto, or in the cases prescribed in Article 768, paragraph (1), item (iv), (c)" in that item is deemed to be replaced with "thereto". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-802/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第八百二条 (Article 802), art-802 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802 - art-802/par-1/item-1: 第七百五十一条第一項第二号 → 会社法 第七百五十一条第一項第二号 (Article 751, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-751/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-751/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-751/par-1/item-2 - art-802/par-1/item-2: 第七百六十条第四号 → 会社法 第七百六十条第一項第四号 (Article 760, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-760/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-760/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-760/par-1/item-4 - art-802/par-1/item-3: 第七百七十条第一項第二号 → 会社法 第七百七十条第一項第二号 (Article 770, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-770/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-770/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-770/par-1/item-2 - art-802/par-2: 第七百九十九条 → 会社法 第七百九十九条 (Article 799), art-799 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-799 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-799 - art-802/par-2: 第二項第三号 → 会社法 第七百九十九条第二項第三号 (Article 799, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-799/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-799/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-799/par-2/item-3 - art-802/par-2: 第八百条 → 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-802/par-2: 第七百九十九条第一項第三号 → 会社法 第七百九十九条第一項第三号 (Article 799, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-799/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-799/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-799/par-1/item-3 - art-802/par-2: 第七百六十八条第一項第四号 → 会社法 第七百六十八条第一項第四号 (Article 768, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-768/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-768/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-768/par-1/item-4 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第七百四十条第一項（債権者の異議手続の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-740/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-740/par-1 - 会社法 第七百四十条第三項（債権者の異議手続の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-740/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-740/par-3 - 会社法 第七百五十二条第六項（持分会社が存続する吸収合併の効力の発生等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-6 - 会社法 第七百六十一条第十項（持分会社に権利義務を承継させる吸収分割の効力の発生等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-761/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-761/par-10 - 会社法 第七百七十一条第五項（合同会社に発行済株式を取得させる株式交換の効力の発生等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-771/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-771/par-5 - 会社法 第八百二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802/par-1 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第二十六号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-976/par-1/item-26 --- ## 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 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17