# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第九十四条 (Article 94) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-94. 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: 第九十四条 (Article 94)（設立時取締役等が発起人である場合の特則） — address `art-94` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-94 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-94 - 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. --- ### 第九十四条（設立時取締役等が発起人である場合の特則） — (Special Provisions in Case Directors at Incorporation Are Incorporators) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-94 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-94 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-94 **第一項** 設立時取締役（設立しようとする株式会社が監査役設置会社である場合にあっては、設立時取締役及び設立時監査役）の全部又は一部が発起人である場合には、創立総会においては、その決議によって、前条第一項各号に掲げる事項を調査する者を選任することができる。 art-94/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-94/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-94/par-1 If some or all of the directors at incorporation (or the directors at incorporation and company auditors at incorporation if the stock company to be incorporated is a company with company auditor) are incorporators, a person to investigate the matters set forth in each item of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article may be elected by a resolution at the organizational meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により選任された者は、必要な調査を行い、当該調査の結果を創立総会に報告しなければならない。 art-94/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-94/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-94/par-2 A person who is elected pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must conduct the necessary investigation and report the outcome of relevant investigation to an organizational meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-94/par-1: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第九十三条第一項 (Article 93, paragraph (1)), art-93/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-93/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-93/par-1 - art-94/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第九十四条第一項 (Article 94, paragraph (1)), art-94/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-94/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-94/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九十四条第二項（設立時取締役等が発起人である場合の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-94/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-94/par-2 - 会社法 第九百六十三条第四項（会社財産を危うくする罪） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-963/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-963/par-4 --- ## 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