# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百十六条の五 (Article 816-5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-816-5. 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: 第八百十六条の五 (Article 816-5)（株式交付をやめることの請求） — address `art-816-5` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-816-5 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第八百十六条の五（株式交付をやめることの請求） — (Demand to Cease Partial Share Exchange) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-816-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-816-5 **第一項** 株式交付が法令又は定款に違反する場合において、株式交付親会社の株主が不利益を受けるおそれがあるときは、株式交付親会社の株主は、株式交付親会社に対し、株式交付をやめることを請求することができる。ただし、前条第一項本文に規定する場合（同項ただし書又は同条第二項に規定する場合を除く。）は、この限りでない。 art-816-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-816-5/par-1 If a partial share exchange violates laws and regulations or the articles of incorporation, when shareholders of the parent company resulting from a partial share exchange are likely to suffer disadvantage, the shareholders of the parent company resulting from a partial share exchange may demand that the parent company resulting from a partial share exchange cease the partial share exchange; provided, however, that this does not apply in the cases prescribed in the main clause of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (excluding the cases prescribed in the proviso to the same paragraph or the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-816-5/par-1: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第八百十六条の四第一項 (Article 816-4, paragraph (1)), art-816-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-816-4/par-1 - art-816-5/par-1: 同条第二項 → 会社法 第八百十六条の四第二項 (Article 816-4, paragraph (2)), art-816-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-816-4/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 229 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17