# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百五条 (Article 805) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-805. 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: 第八百五条 (Article 805)（新設分割計画の承認を要しない場合） — address `art-805` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-805 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-805 - 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. --- ### 第八百五条（新設分割計画の承認を要しない場合） — (Cases Where Approval of the Incorporation-Type Company Split Plan Is Not Required) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-805 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-805 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-805 **第一項** 前条第一項の規定は、新設分割により新設分割設立会社に承継させる資産の帳簿価額の合計額が新設分割株式会社の総資産額として法務省令で定める方法により算定される額の五分の一（これを下回る割合を新設分割株式会社の定款で定めた場合にあっては、その割合）を超えない場合には、適用しない。 art-805/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-805/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-805/par-1 The provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article do not apply if the sum of the book value of the assets that the company incorporated in an incorporation-type split succeeds to through the incorporation-type company split does not exceed one-fifth (or, if a lesser proportion is prescribed in the articles of incorporation of the stock company splitting in the incorporation-type split, relevant proportion) of the amount calculated by the method specified by Ministry of Justice Order as the total assets of the stock company splitting in the incorporation-type split. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-805/par-1: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第八百四条第一項 (Article 804, paragraph (1)), art-804/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-804/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-804/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百四条第四項（新設合併契約等の承認） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-804/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-804/par-4 - 会社法 第八百五条の二第一項（新設合併等をやめることの請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-805-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-805-2/par-1 - 会社法 第八百六条第一項第二号（反対株主の株式買取請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-806/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-806/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第八百八条第三項（新株予約権買取請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-808/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-808/par-3 - 会社法 第九百二十四条第一項第一号イ（新設分割の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-924/par-1/item-1/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-924/par-1/item-1/sub-1 - 会社法 第九百二十四条第一項第一号ハ（新設分割の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-924/par-1/item-1/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-924/par-1/item-1/sub-3 - 会社法 第九百二十四条第二項第一号イ（新設分割の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-924/par-2/item-1/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-924/par-2/item-1/sub-1 - 会社法 第九百二十四条第二項第一号ハ（新設分割の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-924/par-2/item-1/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-924/par-2/item-1/sub-3 --- ## 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