# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八十四条 (Article 84) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-84. 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: 第八十四条 (Article 84)（種類株主総会の決議を必要とする旨の定めがある場合） — address `art-84` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-84 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-84 - 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. --- ### 第八十四条（種類株主総会の決議を必要とする旨の定めがある場合） — (Cases of Provisions Requiring Resolutions at General Meetings of Class Shareholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-84 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-84 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-84 **第一項** 設立しようとする株式会社が種類株式発行会社である場合において、その設立に際して発行するある種類の株式の内容として、株主総会において決議すべき事項について、当該決議のほか、当該種類の株式の種類株主を構成員とする種類株主総会の決議があることを必要とする旨の定めがあるときは、当該事項は、その定款の定めの例に従い、創立総会の決議のほか、当該種類の設立時発行株式の設立時種類株主（ある種類の設立時発行株式の設立時株主をいう。以下この節において同じ。）を構成員とする種類創立総会（ある種類の設立時発行株式の設立時種類株主の総会をいう。以下同じ。）の決議がなければ、その効力を生じない。ただし、当該種類創立総会において議決権を行使することができる設立時種類株主が存しない場合は、この限りでない。 art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-84/par-1 If the stock company to be incorporated is a company with class shares, if there are provisions, as a feature of a certain class of shares to be issued as at the incorporation, to the effect that, with respect to the matter that is subject to the resolution at a shareholders meeting, in addition to relevant resolution, the resolution at a general meeting of class shareholders constituted by the class shareholders of relevant class of shares is required, relevant matter does not become effective unless the resolution is passed at an organizational meeting of class shareholders (meaning a meeting of class shareholders at incorporation of a certain class of the shares issued at incorporation; the same applies hereinafter) constituted by the class shareholders at incorporation of the shares issued at incorporation of relevant class (meaning the shareholders at incorporation of a certain class of shares issued at incorporation; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) in addition to the resolution at the organizational meeting, consistently with the provisions of articles of incorporation; provided, however, that this does not apply to the case where there exists no class shareholder at incorporation who may vote at relevant organizational meeting of class shareholders. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四十四条第二項（設立時取締役等の解任の方法の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-44/par-2 - 会社法 第八十五条第一項（種類創立総会の招集及び決議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-85/par-1 - 会社法 第九百十一条第二項第二号（株式会社の設立の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-911/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-911/par-2/item-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 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17