# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百十六条 (Article 316) - 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: 第三百十六条 (Article 316)（株主総会に提出された資料等の調査） — address `art-316` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-316 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-316 - 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. --- ### 第三百十六条（株主総会に提出された資料等の調査） — (Investigation of Materials Submitted to Shareholders Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-316 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-316 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-316 **第一項** 株主総会においては、その決議によって、取締役、会計参与、監査役、監査役会及び会計監査人が当該株主総会に提出し、又は提供した資料を調査する者を選任することができる。 art-316/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-316/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-316/par-1 At a shareholders meeting, a person to investigate the materials submitted or provided to relevant shareholders meeting by the directors, accounting advisors, company auditors, board of company auditors and financial auditors may be elected by a resolution at the relevant shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第二百九十七条の規定により招集された株主総会においては、その決議によって、株式会社の業務及び財産の状況を調査する者を選任することができる。 art-316/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-316/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-316/par-2 At the shareholders meeting which is called pursuant to the provisions of Article 297, a person who will be charged to investigate the status of the operations and property of the stock company may be elected by a resolution at the relevant shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-316/par-2: 第二百九十七条 → 会社法 第二百九十七条 (Article 297), art-297 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-297 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-297 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百九条第五項（株主総会の決議） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-309/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-309/par-5 --- ## 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 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17