# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百十三条 (Article 313) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-313. 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: 第三百十三条 (Article 313)（議決権の不統一行使） — address `art-313` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-313 - 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). 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. --- ### 第三百十三条（議決権の不統一行使） — (Diverse Exercising of Voting Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-313 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-313 **第一項** 株主は、その有する議決権を統一しないで行使することができる。 art-313/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-313/par-1 Shareholders may diversely exercise voting rights they hold. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 取締役会設置会社においては、前項の株主は、株主総会の日の三日前までに、取締役会設置会社に対してその有する議決権を統一しないで行使する旨及びその理由を通知しなければならない。 art-313/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-313/par-2 For a company with board of directors, the shareholders under the preceding paragraph must notify the stock company that they will diversely exercise their voting rights and of the reason thereof no later than three days prior to the day of the shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 株式会社は、第一項の株主が他人のために株式を有する者でないときは、当該株主が同項の規定によりその有する議決権を統一しないで行使することを拒むことができる。 art-313/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-313/par-3 If the shareholders referred to in the paragraph (1) are not persons who hold the shares on behalf of others, the stock company may refuse the diverse exercise of voting rights held by relevant shareholders pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-313/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百十三条第一項 (Article 313, paragraph (1)), art-313/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-313/par-1 - art-313/par-3: 第一項 → 会社法 第三百十三条第一項 (Article 313, paragraph (1)), art-313/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-313/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百十三条第二項（議決権の不統一行使） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-313/par-2 - 会社法 第三百十三条第三項（議決権の不統一行使） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-313/par-3 --- ## 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