# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百四十三条 (Article 543) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-543. 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: 第五百四十三条 (Article 543)（役員等の責任の免除の禁止） — address `art-543` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-543 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-543 - 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. --- ### 第五百四十三条（役員等の責任の免除の禁止） — (Prohibition of Exemptions from Liability of Officers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-543 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-543 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-543 **第一項** 裁判所は、特別清算開始の命令があった場合において、清算の監督上必要があると認めるときは、債権者、清算人、監査役若しくは株主の申立てにより又は職権で、対象役員等の責任の免除の禁止の処分をすることができる。 art-543/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-543/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-543/par-1 If an order is issued for commencement of special liquidation, if the court finds it necessary to supervise the liquidation, the court may, in response to the petitions by the creditors, liquidators, company auditors or shareholders or ex officio, effect the disposition that prohibits the exemption of liability of the subject officers. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百九十八条第一項第四号（清算株式会社の財産に関する保全処分等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-898/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-898/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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