# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百六条 (Article 506) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-506. 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: 第五百六条 (Article 506)（基準株式数を定めた場合の処理） — address `art-506` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-506 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-506 - 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. --- ### 第五百六条（基準株式数を定めた場合の処理） — (Treatment in Case Base Number of Shares Is Provided) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-506 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-506 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-506 **第一項** 前条第一項第二号の数（以下この条において「基準株式数」という。）を定めた場合には、清算株式会社は、基準株式数に満たない数の株式（以下この条において「基準未満株式」という。）を有する株主に対し、前条第三項後段の規定の例により基準株式数の株式を有する株主が割当てを受けた残余財産の価額として定めた額に当該基準未満株式の数の基準株式数に対する割合を乗じて得た額に相当する金銭を支払わなければならない。 art-506/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-506/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-506/par-1 If the number in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "minimum number of shares") is prescribed, a liquidating stock company must pay to the shareholders who hold shares in a number less than the minimum number of shares (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "below minimum shareholding") the monies equivalent to the amount which is obtained by multiplying the amount prescribed as the value of the residual assets allotted to the shareholders who hold shares in the minimum number of shares in accordance with the applicable provisions of the second sentence of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article by the ratio of the number shares in relevant below minimum shareholding to the minimum number of shares. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-506/par-1: 前条第一項第二号 → 会社法 第五百五条第一項第二号 (Article 505, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-505/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-505/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-505/par-1/item-2 - art-506/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第五百六条 (Article 506), art-506 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-506 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-506 - art-506/par-1: 前条第三項 → 会社法 第五百五条第三項 (Article 505, paragraph (3)), art-505/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-505/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-505/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百六条第一項（基準株式数を定めた場合の処理） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-506/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-506/par-1 - 会社法 第八百七十条第一項第六号（陳述の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-870/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-870/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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