# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百九十九条の九 (Article 399-9) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-399-9. 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: 第三百九十九条の九 (Article 399-9)（招集手続等） — address `art-399-9` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-399-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-399-9 - 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. --- ### 第三百九十九条の九（招集手続等） — (Calling Procedures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-399-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-399-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-399-9 **第一項** 監査等委員会を招集するには、監査等委員は、監査等委員会の日の一週間（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）前までに、各監査等委員に対してその通知を発しなければならない。 art-399-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-399-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-399-9/par-1 To call an audit and supervisory committee meeting, an audit and supervisory committee member must dispatch the notice thereof to each audit and supervisory committee member no later than one week (or if a shorter period of time is prescribed by the articles of incorporation, the shorter period of time) prior to the day of the committee meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、監査等委員会は、監査等委員の全員の同意があるときは、招集の手続を経ることなく開催することができる。 art-399-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-399-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-399-9/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the audit and supervisory committee meeting may be held without the procedures for calling it if the consent of all audit and supervisory committee members is obtained. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 取締役（会計参与設置会社にあっては、取締役及び会計参与）は、監査等委員会の要求があったときは、監査等委員会に出席し、監査等委員会が求めた事項について説明をしなければならない。 art-399-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-399-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-399-9/par-3 If requested by the audit and supervisory committee, directors (in cases of a company with accounting advisor, directors and accounting advisors) must attend the audit and supervisory committee meeting and provide explanations on the matters requested by the audit and supervisory committee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-399-9/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百九十九条の九第一項 (Article 399-9, paragraph (1)), art-399-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-399-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-399-9/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百九十九条の九第二項（招集手続等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-399-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-399-9/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