# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百十五条 (Article 515) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-515. 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: 第五百十五条 (Article 515)（他の手続の中止等） — address `art-515` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-515 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-515 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五百十五条（他の手続の中止等） — (Suspension of Other Procedures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-515 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-515 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-515 **第一項** 特別清算開始の命令があったときは、破産手続開始の申立て、清算株式会社の財産に対する強制執行、仮差押え、仮処分若しくは外国租税滞納処分又は財産開示手続（民事執行法（昭和五十四年法律第四号）第百九十七条第一項の申立てによるものに限る。以下この項において同じ。）若しくは第三者からの情報取得手続（同法第二百五条第一項第一号、第二百六条第一項又は第二百七条第一項の申立てによるものに限る。以下この項において同じ。）の申立てはすることができず、破産手続（破産手続開始の決定がされていないものに限る。）、清算株式会社の財産に対して既にされている強制執行、仮差押え及び仮処分の手続並びに外国租税滞納処分並びに財産開示手続及び第三者からの情報取得手続は中止する。ただし、一般の先取特権その他一般の優先権がある債権に基づく強制執行、仮差押え、仮処分又は財産開示手続若しくは第三者からの情報取得手続については、この限りでない。 art-515/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-515/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-515/par-1 If an order to commence special liquidation is issued, a petition may not be filed for commencement of bankruptcy procedures, a judicial enforcement, provisional attachment, provisional disposition or disposition to collect foreign tax arrears, against the assets of a liquidating stock company, nor for property disclosure procedures (limited to those in response to a petition under Article 197, paragraph (1) of the Civil Execution Act (Act No. 4 of 1979); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) or procedures for acquiring information from a third party (limited to those pursuant to a petition under Article 205, paragraph (1), item (i), Article 206, paragraph (1), or Article 207, paragraph (1); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), and any bankruptcy procedures (limited to those in respect of which a ruling to commence bankruptcy procedures has not yet been issued), judicial enforcement, provisional attachment, or provisional disposition procedures, or disposition to collect foreign tax arrears already being effected against the assets of the liquidating stock company, as well as any property disclosure procedures and procedures for acquiring information from a third party, are suspended; provided, however, that this does not apply with respect to a judicial enforcement, provisional attachment, provisional disposition, property disclosure procedures, or procedures for acquiring information from a third party pursuant to general liens or other claims that have general priority. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 特別清算開始の命令が確定したときは、前項の規定により中止した手続又は処分は、特別清算の手続の関係においては、その効力を失う。 art-515/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-515/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-515/par-2 If an order to commence special liquidation has become final and binding, any procedures or dispositions suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph become ineffective in relation to the proceedings for the special liquidation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 特別清算開始の命令があったときは、清算株式会社の債権者の債権（一般の先取特権その他一般の優先権がある債権、特別清算の手続のために清算株式会社に対して生じた債権及び特別清算の手続に関する清算株式会社に対する費用請求権を除く。以下この節において「協定債権」という。）については、第九百三十八条第一項第二号又は第三号に規定する特別清算開始の取消しの登記又は特別清算終結の登記の日から二箇月を経過する日までの間は、時効は、完成しない。 art-515/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-515/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-515/par-3 If an order to commence special liquidation is issued, the period of prescription is not completed with respect to the claims of creditors of the liquidating stock company (excluding general liens and other claims that have general priority, claims arising against the liquidating stock company due to special liquidation proceedings, and claims against the liquidating stock company for expenses in connection with special liquidation proceedings; hereinafter in this Section referred to as "agreement claims") until the day on which two months have elapsed since the day of the registration of the rescission of the commencement of special liquidation or since the day of the registration of conclusion of special liquidation provided for in Article 938, paragraph (1), item (ii) or item (iii). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-515/par-1: 民事執行法（昭和五十四年法律第四号）第百九十七条第一項 → 民事執行法 第百九十七条第一項 (Article 197, paragraph (1)), art-197/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-197/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-197/par-1 - art-515/par-1: この項 → 会社法 第五百十五条第一項 (Article 515, paragraph (1)), art-515/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-515/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-515/par-1 - art-515/par-1: 同法第二百五条第一項第一号 → 民事執行法 第二百五条第一項第一号 (Article 205, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-205/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-205/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-205/par-1/item-1 - art-515/par-1: 第二百六条第一項 → 民事執行法 第二百六条第一項 (Article 206, paragraph (1)), art-206/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-206/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-206/par-1 - art-515/par-1: 第二百七条第一項 → 民事執行法 第二百七条第一項 (Article 207, paragraph (1)), art-207/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-207/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-207/par-1 - art-515/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第五百十五条第一項 (Article 515, paragraph (1)), art-515/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-515/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-515/par-1 - art-515/par-3: 第九百三十八条第一項第二号 → 会社法 第九百三十八条第一項第二号 (Article 938, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-938/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-938/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-938/par-1/item-2 - art-515/par-3: 第三号 → 会社法 第九百三十八条第一項第三号 (Article 938, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-938/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-938/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-938/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百十二条第一項第三号（他の手続の中止命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-512/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-512/par-1/item-3 - 会社法 第五百十五条第一項（他の手続の中止等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-515/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-515/par-1 - 会社法 第五百十五条第二項（他の手続の中止等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-515/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-515/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