# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百八十条 (Article 480) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-480. 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: 第四百八十条 (Article 480)（監査役の退任） — address `art-480` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-480 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-480 - 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. --- ### 第四百八十条（監査役の退任） — (Resignation of Company Auditors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-480 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-480 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-480 **第一項** 清算株式会社の監査役は、当該清算株式会社が次に掲げる定款の変更をした場合には、当該定款の変更の効力が生じた時に退任する。 art-480/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-480/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-480/par-1 If liquidating stock companies effect any of the following changes in the articles of incorporation, company auditors of relevant liquidating stock companies resign when relevant change in the articles of incorporation takes effect: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 監査役を置く旨の定款の定めを廃止する定款の変更 art-480/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-480/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-480/par-1/item-1 any change in the articles of incorporation to abolish the provisions of the articles of incorporation to the effect that company auditors are established; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 監査役の監査の範囲を会計に関するものに限定する旨の定款の定めを廃止する定款の変更 art-480/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-480/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-480/par-1/item-2 any change in the articles of incorporation to abolish the provisions of the articles of incorporation to the effect that the scope of the audit by the company auditors is limited to accounting audit. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第三百三十六条の規定は、清算株式会社の監査役については、適用しない。 art-480/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-480/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-480/par-2 The provisions of 336 do not apply to company auditors of liquidating stock companies. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-480/par-2: 第三百三十六条 → 会社法 第三百三十六条 (Article 336), art-336 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-336 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-336 --- ## 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