# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百九十六条 (Article 896) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-896. 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: 第八百九十六条 (Article 896)（事業の譲渡の許可の申立て） — address `art-896` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-896 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-896 - 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. --- ### 第八百九十六条（事業の譲渡の許可の申立て） — (Petition for Permission to Transfer Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-896 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-896 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-896 **第一項** 清算人は、第五百三十六条第一項の許可の申立てをする場合には、知れている債権者の意見を聴き、その内容を裁判所に報告しなければならない。 art-896/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-896/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-896/par-1 A liquidator must, in cases of filing a petition for the permission referred to in Article 536, paragraph (1), hear the opinions of the known creditors and report the contents thereof to the court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所は、第五百三十六条第一項の許可をする場合には、労働組合等（清算株式会社の使用人その他の従業者の過半数で組織する労働組合があるときはその労働組合、清算株式会社の使用人その他の従業者の過半数で組織する労働組合がないときは清算株式会社の使用人その他の従業者の過半数を代表する者をいう。）の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-896/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-896/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-896/par-2 The court must, in cases of issuing the permission set forth in Article 536, paragraph (1), hear the opinions of the labor union, etc. (meaning the labor union if there is a labor union consisting of a majority of the employees and any other workers of the liquidating stock company, and the person representing a majority of the employees and any other workers of the liquidating stock company if there is no labor union consisting of a majority of the employees and any other workers of the liquidating stock company). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-896/par-1: 第五百三十六条第一項 → 会社法 第五百三十六条第一項 (Article 536, paragraph (1)), art-536/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-1 - art-896/par-2: 第五百三十六条第一項 → 会社法 第五百三十六条第一項 (Article 536, paragraph (1)), art-536/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-536/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-536/par-1 --- ## 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