# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百九十九条 (Article 899) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899. 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: 第八百九十九条 (Article 899)（役員等責任査定決定） — address `art-899` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899 - 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. --- ### 第八百九十九条（役員等責任査定決定） — (Rulings Evaluating Subject Officer's Liability) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-899 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899 **第一項** 清算株式会社は、第五百四十五条第一項の申立てをするときは、その原因となる事実を疎明しなければならない。 art-899/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899/par-1 When a liquidating stock company intends to file the petition referred to in Article 545, paragraph (1), it must make a prima facie showing with regard to the fact that serves as the cause thereof. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 役員等責任査定決定（第五百四十五条第一項に規定する役員等責任査定決定をいう。以下この条において同じ。）及び前項の申立てを却下する決定には、理由を付さなければならない。 art-899/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899/par-2 A ruling evaluating the subject officer's liability (meaning the ruling evaluating the subject officer's liability prescribed in Article 545, paragraph (1); hereinafter the same applies in this Article) and a ruling to dismiss the petition referred to in the preceding paragraph must append the reason therefor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 裁判所は、前項に規定する裁判をする場合には、対象役員等（第五百四十二条第一項に規定する対象役員等をいう。）の陳述を聴かなければならない。 art-899/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899/par-3 The court must, when making the judicial decision prescribed in the preceding paragraph, hear statements from the subject officers (meaning the subject officers prescribed in Article 542, paragraph (1)). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 役員等責任査定決定があった場合には、その裁判書を当事者に送達しなければならない。 art-899/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899/par-4 If a ruling evaluating the subject officers' liability is made, the written judgment thereof must be served on the parties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第八百五十八条第一項の訴えが、同項の期間内に提起されなかったとき、又は却下されたときは、役員等責任査定決定は、給付を命ずる確定判決と同一の効力を有する。 art-899/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899/par-5 When the action referred to in Article 858, paragraph (1) is not filed within the period referred to in that paragraph or is dismissed, the ruling evaluating the subject officers' liability has the same effect as a final and binding judgment ordering performance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-899/par-1: 第五百四十五条第一項 → 会社法 第五百四十五条第一項 (Article 545, paragraph (1)), art-545/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-545/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-545/par-1 - art-899/par-2: 第五百四十五条第一項 → 会社法 第五百四十五条第一項 (Article 545, paragraph (1)), art-545/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-545/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-545/par-1 - art-899/par-2: この条 → 会社法 第八百九十九条 (Article 899), art-899 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899 - art-899/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第八百九十九条第一項 (Article 899, paragraph (1)), art-899/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899/par-1 - art-899/par-3: 前項 → 会社法 第八百九十九条第二項 (Article 899, paragraph (2)), art-899/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899/par-2 - art-899/par-3: 第五百四十二条第一項 → 会社法 第五百四十二条第一項 (Article 542, paragraph (1)), art-542/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-542/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-542/par-1 - art-899/par-5: 第八百五十八条第一項 → 会社法 第八百五十八条第一項 (Article 858, paragraph (1)), art-858/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-858/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-858/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百五十八条第一項（役員等責任査定決定に対する異議の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-858/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-858/par-1 - 会社法 第八百九十九条第二項（役員等責任査定決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899/par-2 - 会社法 第八百九十九条第三項（役員等責任査定決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-899/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-899/par-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