# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百三十九条 (Article 539) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-539. 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: 第五百三十九条 (Article 539)（担保権者が処分をすべき期間の指定） — address `art-539` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-539 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-539 - 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. --- ### 第五百三十九条（担保権者が処分をすべき期間の指定） — (Designating Periods for Disposition by Security Interest Holders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-539 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-539 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-539 **第一項** 担保権者が法律に定められた方法によらないで担保権の目的である財産の処分をする権利を有するときは、裁判所は、清算株式会社の申立てにより、担保権者がその処分をすべき期間を定めることができる。 art-539/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-539/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-539/par-1 If security interest holders have the right to dispose of the assets that underlie the security interest without relying on the method prescribed by the Act, the court may, in response to the petition by the liquidating stock company, specify the period during which the security interest holders ought to effect the disposition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 担保権者は、前項の期間内に処分をしないときは、同項の権利を失う。 art-539/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-539/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-539/par-2 Security interest holders will lose their right under the preceding paragraph if they do not effect disposition during the period under the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-539/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第五百三十九条第一項 (Article 539, paragraph (1)), art-539/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-539/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-539/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百三十八条第二項（換価の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-538/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-538/par-2 - 会社法 第五百三十九条第二項（担保権者が処分をすべき期間の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-539/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-539/par-2 - 会社法 第八百九十七条第一項（担保権者が処分をすべき期間の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-897/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-897/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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17