# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第九百五十六条 (Article 956) - 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: 第九百五十六条 (Article 956)（調査記録簿等の引継ぎ） — address `art-956` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-956 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-956 - 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. --- ### 第九百五十六条（調査記録簿等の引継ぎ） — (Succession of an Investigation Record Book) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-956 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-956 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-956 **第一項** 調査機関は、電子公告調査の業務の全部の廃止をしようとするとき、又は第九百五十四条の規定により登録が取り消されたときは、その保存に係る前条第一項（電子公告関係規定において準用する場合を含む。）の調査記録簿等を他の調査機関に引き継がなければならない。 art-956/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-956/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-956/par-1 When an investigation body intends to discontinue all of its business of electronic public notice investigation or when its registration is rescinded pursuant to the provisions of Article 954, the investigation body must have another investigation body succeed to the investigation record book, etc. referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including the cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the electronic public notice related provisions), which the former investigation body has preserved. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により同項の調査記録簿等の引継ぎを受けた調査機関は、法務省令で定めるところにより、その調査記録簿等を保存しなければならない。 art-956/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-956/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-956/par-2 An investigation body that has succeeded to the investigation record book, etc. referred to in the preceding paragraph pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph must preserve the investigation record book, etc. pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-956/par-1: 第九百五十四条 → 会社法 第九百五十四条 (Article 954), art-954 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-954 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-954 - art-956/par-1: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第九百五十五条第一項 (Article 955, paragraph (1)), art-955/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-955/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-955/par-1 - art-956/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第九百五十六条第一項 (Article 956, paragraph (1)), art-956/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-956/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-956/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百五十五条第二項（調査記録簿等の記載等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-955/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-955/par-2 - 会社法 第九百五十六条第二項（調査記録簿等の引継ぎ） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-956/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-956/par-2 - 会社法 第九百七十四条第一項第二号（虚偽届出等の罪） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-974/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-974/par-1/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 - 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 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17