# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二百二十七条 (Article 227) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-227. 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: 第二百二十七条 (Article 227)（株券を発行する旨の定款の定めを廃止した場合における株券喪失登録の抹消） — address `art-227` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-227 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-227 - 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. --- ### 第二百二十七条（株券を発行する旨の定款の定めを廃止した場合における株券喪失登録の抹消） — (Cancellation of Registration of Lost Share Certificate Where Provisions of Articles of Incorporation to Issue Share Certificates Are Abolished) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-227 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-227 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-227 **第一項** その株式（種類株式発行会社にあっては、全部の種類の株式）に係る株券を発行する旨の定款の定めを廃止する定款の変更をする場合には、株券発行会社は、当該定款の変更の効力が生ずる日に、株券喪失登録（当該株券喪失登録がされた株券に係る株式の名義人が株券喪失登録者であるものに限り、第二百二十五条第二項の規定により提出された株券についてのものを除く。）を抹消しなければならない。 art-227/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-227/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-227/par-1 If a share certificate-issuing company amends the articles of incorporation to abolish provisions of the articles of incorporation to the effect that the share certificate-issuing company issues share certificates for its shares (or, for a company with class shares, shares of all classes), the share certificate-issuing company must cancel the registration of lost share certificate (excluding registrations for share certificates submitted under the provisions of Article 225, paragraph (2) only if the registrant of lost share certificate is the registered holder of the shares relating to the share certificates subject to relevant registration of lost share certificate) on the day of the effectuation of relevant amendment to the articles of incorporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-227/par-1: 第二百二十五条第二項 → 会社法 第二百二十五条第二項 (Article 225, paragraph (2)), art-225/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-225/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-225/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二百二十一条第一項（株券喪失登録簿） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-221/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-221/par-1 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第十六号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-976/par-1/item-16 --- ## 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