# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第十五条 (Article 15)

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- 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（物品の販売等を目的とする店舗の使用人） — address `art-15`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-15
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-15
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### 第十五条（物品の販売等を目的とする店舗の使用人） — (Employees of Stores for the Purpose of Selling Goods)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-15</sup>

    **第一項**  物品の販売等（販売、賃貸その他これらに類する行為をいう。以下この条において同じ。）を目的とする店舗の使用人は、その店舗に在る物品の販売等をする権限を有するものとみなす。ただし、相手方が悪意であったときは、この限りでない。
    <sup>art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-15/par-1</sup>
    Any employee of a store the purpose of which is the sale, etc. (meaning sale, lease or any other act similar to the foregoing; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) of goods is deemed to have authority to conduct the sale, etc. of the goods located in that store; provided, however, that this does not apply to the cases where the counterparty acts with knowledge of the counterparty's actual authority.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-15/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第十五条 (Article 15), art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-15

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 会社法 第十五条第一項（物品の販売等を目的とする店舗の使用人） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-15/par-1

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## 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