# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百六条 (Article 306) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306. 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: 第三百六条 (Article 306)（株主総会の招集手続等に関する検査役の選任） — address `art-306` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三百六条（株主総会の招集手続等に関する検査役の選任） — (Appointment of Inspectors on Calling Procedures of Shareholders Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-306 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306 **第一項** 株式会社又は総株主（株主総会において決議をすることができる事項の全部につき議決権を行使することができない株主を除く。）の議決権の百分の一（これを下回る割合を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その割合）以上の議決権を有する株主は、株主総会に係る招集の手続及び決議の方法を調査させるため、当該株主総会に先立ち、裁判所に対し、検査役の選任の申立てをすることができる。 art-306/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-1 A stock company or shareholders who hold not less than one hundredth (or, if any proportion less than that is provided for in the articles of incorporation, the proportion) of the votes of all shareholders (excluding the shareholders who may not vote on all matters which may be resolved at the shareholders meeting) may file a petition with the court, before a shareholders meeting, for the appointment of an inspector who is to be retained to investigate the calling procedures and method of resolutions relating to relevant shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公開会社である取締役会設置会社における前項の規定の適用については、同項中「株主総会において決議をすることができる事項」とあるのは「第二百九十八条第一項第二号に掲げる事項」と、「有する」とあるのは「六箇月（これを下回る期間を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その期間）前から引き続き有する」とし、公開会社でない取締役会設置会社における同項の規定の適用については、同項中「株主総会において決議をすることができる事項」とあるのは、「第二百九十八条第一項第二号に掲げる事項」とする。 art-306/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-2 For the purpose of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a company with board of directors which is a public company, in that paragraph, the phrase "matters which may be resolved at the shareholders meeting" is deemed to be replaced with "matters set forth in Article 298, paragraph (1), item (ii)" and "hold" is deemed to be replaced with "have held, for the consecutive period of six months or more (or, if any period less than that is provided for in the articles of incorporation, the period)"; and for the purpose of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a company with board of directors which is not a public company, and the phrase "matters which may be resolved at the shareholders meeting" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "matters set forth in Article 298, paragraph (1), item (ii)". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定による検査役の選任の申立てがあった場合には、裁判所は、これを不適法として却下する場合を除き、検査役を選任しなければならない。 art-306/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-3 If the petition for the appointment of an inspector pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs has been filed, the court must appoint the inspector except in case it dismisses relevant petition as non-conforming. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 裁判所は、前項の検査役を選任した場合には、株式会社が当該検査役に対して支払う報酬の額を定めることができる。 art-306/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-4 If the court has appointed the inspector set forth in the preceding paragraph, it may fix the amount of the compensation which the stock company pays to relevant inspector. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第三項の検査役は、必要な調査を行い、当該調査の結果を記載し、又は記録した書面又は電磁的記録（法務省令で定めるものに限る。）を裁判所に提供して報告をしなければならない。 art-306/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-5 The inspector set forth in paragraph (3) must conduct the necessary investigation and submit a report to the court by providing it with a document detailing the results of the investigation or with an electronic or magnetic record (limited to one prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order) in which these have been recorded. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 裁判所は、前項の報告について、その内容を明瞭にし、又はその根拠を確認するため必要があると認めるときは、第三項の検査役に対し、更に前項の報告を求めることができる。 art-306/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-6 If the court finds it necessary to for the purpose of clarification of the contents of the report set forth in the preceding paragraph or of confirmation of the grounds supporting the report, it may request the inspector set forth in paragraph (3) a further report set forth in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第七項** 第三項の検査役は、第五項の報告をしたときは、株式会社（検査役の選任の申立てをした者が当該株式会社でない場合にあっては、当該株式会社及びその者）に対し、同項の書面の写しを交付し、又は同項の電磁的記録に記録された事項を法務省令で定める方法により提供しなければならない。 art-306/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-7 When the inspector set forth in paragraph (3) reports pursuant to paragraph (5), the inspector must deliver a copy of the document referred to in that paragraph to the stock company (in cases where the person who filed a petition for the appointment of an inspector was not relevant stock company, relevant stock company and that person) or use a means prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order to provide it with the information recorded in the electronic or magnetic record referred to in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-306/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百六条第一項 (Article 306, paragraph (1)), art-306/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-1 - art-306/par-2: 第二百九十八条第一項第二号 → 会社法 第二百九十八条第一項第二号 (Article 298, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-298/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-298/par-1/item-2 - art-306/par-3: 前二項 → 会社法 第三百六条第一項 (Article 306, paragraph (1)), art-306/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-1 - art-306/par-3: 前二項 → 会社法 第三百六条第二項 (Article 306, paragraph (2)), art-306/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-2 - art-306/par-4: 前項 → 会社法 第三百六条第三項 (Article 306, paragraph (3)), art-306/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-3 - art-306/par-5: 第三項 → 会社法 第三百六条第三項 (Article 306, paragraph (3)), art-306/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-3 - art-306/par-6: 前項 → 会社法 第三百六条第五項 (Article 306, paragraph (5)), art-306/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-5 - art-306/par-6: 第三項 → 会社法 第三百六条第三項 (Article 306, paragraph (3)), art-306/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-3 - art-306/par-7: 第三項 → 会社法 第三百六条第三項 (Article 306, paragraph (3)), art-306/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-3 - art-306/par-7: 第五項 → 会社法 第三百六条第五項 (Article 306, paragraph (5)), art-306/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-5 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百六条第二項（株主総会の招集手続等に関する検査役の選任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-2 - 会社法 第三百六条第三項（株主総会の招集手続等に関する検査役の選任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-3 - 会社法 第三百六条第四項（株主総会の招集手続等に関する検査役の選任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-4 - 会社法 第三百六条第五項（株主総会の招集手続等に関する検査役の選任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-5 - 会社法 第三百六条第六項（株主総会の招集手続等に関する検査役の選任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-6 - 会社法 第三百六条第七項（株主総会の招集手続等に関する検査役の選任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-306/par-7 - 会社法 第三百七条第一項（裁判所による株主総会招集等の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-307/par-1 - 会社法 第三百七条第一項第二号（裁判所による株主総会招集等の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-307/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第三百七条第二項（裁判所による株主総会招集等の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-307/par-2 - 会社法 第三百七条第三項（裁判所による株主総会招集等の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-307/par-3 - 会社法 第九百六十八条第一項第二号（株主等の権利の行使に関する贈収賄罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-968/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 - This site's parser, version 229 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17