# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二百五十五条 (Article 255) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-255. 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: 第二百五十五条 (Article 255)（証券発行新株予約権の譲渡） — address `art-255` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-255 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-255 - 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. --- ### 第二百五十五条（証券発行新株予約権の譲渡） — (Transfers of Share Options for Which Certificates Are Issued) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-255 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-255 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-255 **第一項** 証券発行新株予約権の譲渡は、当該証券発行新株予約権に係る新株予約権証券を交付しなければ、その効力を生じない。ただし、自己新株予約権（株式会社が有する自己の新株予約権をいう。以下この章において同じ。）の処分による証券発行新株予約権の譲渡については、この限りでない。 art-255/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-255/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-255/par-1 Transfers of share options for which certificates are issued do not become effective unless the share option certificates representing the share options for which relevant certificates are issued are delivered; provided, however, that this does not apply to transfers of share options for which certificates are issued that arise out of the disposition of own share options (meaning own share options that the stock company holds; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 証券発行新株予約権付社債に付された新株予約権の譲渡は、当該証券発行新株予約権付社債に係る新株予約権付社債券を交付しなければ、その効力を生じない。ただし、自己新株予約権付社債（株式会社が有する自己の新株予約権付社債をいう。以下この条及び次条において同じ。）の処分による当該自己新株予約権付社債に付された新株予約権の譲渡については、この限りでない。 art-255/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-255/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-255/par-2 Transfers of share options attached to a bonds with share options for which a certificate is issued do not become effective unless the certificate representing the bonds with share options for which such a certificate is issued is delivered; provided, however, that this does not apply to transfers of share options attached to own bonds with share option (meaning own bonds with share option that the stock company holds; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article) that arise out of the disposition of relevant own bonds with share option. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-255/par-2: この条 → 会社法 第二百五十五条 (Article 255), art-255 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-255 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-255 - art-255/par-2: 次条 → 会社法 第二百五十六条 (Article 256), art-256 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-256 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-256 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二百五十五条第二項（証券発行新株予約権の譲渡） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-255/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-255/par-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 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17