# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第九百七十三条 (Article 973) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-973. 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: 第九百七十三条 (Article 973)（業務停止命令違反の罪） — address `art-973` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-973 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-973 - 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. --- ### 第九百七十三条（業務停止命令違反の罪） — (Crime of Violation of an Order to Suspend Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-973 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-973 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-973 **第一項** 第九百五十四条の規定による電子公告調査（第九百四十二条第一項に規定する電子公告調査をいう。以下同じ。）の業務の全部又は一部の停止の命令に違反した者は、一年以下の拘禁刑若しくは百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-973/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-973/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-973/par-1 A person who has violated an order to suspend all or part of the business of electronic public notice investigation (meaning the electronic public notice investigation prescribed in Article 942, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter) under the provisions of Article 954 is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than one million yen, or both. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-973/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-973/par-1: 第九百四十二条第一項 → 会社法 第九百四十二条第一項 (Article 942, paragraph (1)), art-942/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-942/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-942/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百七十五条第一項（両罰規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-975/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-975/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 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch companies-act-20260917T143643-002, translated 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17