# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百二十七条の二 (Article 327-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-327-2. 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: 第三百二十七条の二 (Article 327-2)（社外取締役の設置義務） — address `art-327-2` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-327-2 - 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. --- ### 第三百二十七条の二（社外取締役の設置義務） — (Obligation to Have an Outside Director) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-327-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-327-2 **第一項** 監査役会設置会社（公開会社であり、かつ、大会社であるものに限る。）であって金融商品取引法第二十四条第一項の規定によりその発行する株式について有価証券報告書を内閣総理大臣に提出しなければならないものは、社外取締役を置かなければならない。 art-327-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-327-2/par-1 A company with board of company auditors (limited to a public company that is a large company) that is required to submit an annual securities report to the Prime Minister with respect to shares that the company issues pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act must have an outside director. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-327-2/par-1: 金融商品取引法第二十四条第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-24/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 323AC0000000025) ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第十九号の二（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-19-2 - 会社法 附則第五条第一項（社外取締役の設置義務等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/suppl-5011-70/art-5/par-1 --- ## 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