# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五十五条 (Article 55) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-55. 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: 第五十五条 (Article 55)（責任の免除） — address `art-55` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-55 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条（責任の免除） — (Exemption from Liability) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-55 **第一項** 第五十二条第一項の規定により発起人又は設立時取締役の負う義務、第五十二条の二第一項の規定により発起人の負う義務、同条第二項の規定により発起人又は設立時取締役の負う義務及び第五十三条第一項の規定により発起人、設立時取締役又は設立時監査役の負う責任は、総株主の同意がなければ、免除することができない。 art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-55/par-1 An exemption from the obligations assumed by an incorporator or director at incorporation pursuant to the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1), obligations assumed by an incorporator pursuant to the provisions of Article 52-2, paragraph (1), obligations assumed by an incorporator or director at incorporation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article, and the liability assumed by an incorporator, director at incorporation or company auditor at incorporation pursuant to the provisions of Article 53, paragraph (1) may not be given without the consent of all shareholders. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-55/par-1: 第五十二条第一項 → 会社法 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-52/par-1 - art-55/par-1: 第五十二条の二第一項 → 会社法 第五十二条の二第一項 (Article 52-2, paragraph (1)), art-52-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-52-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-52-2/par-1 - art-55/par-1: 同条第二項 → 会社法 第五十二条の二第二項 (Article 52-2, paragraph (2)), art-52-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-52-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-52-2/par-2 - art-55/par-1: 第五十三条第一項 → 会社法 第五十三条第一項 (Article 53, paragraph (1)), art-53/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-53/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百四十七条の二第九項（旧株主による責任追及等の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-847-2/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-847-2/par-9 - 会社法 第八百四十七条の三第十項（最終完全親会社等の株主による特定責任追及の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-847-3/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-847-3/par-10 - 会社法 第八百五十条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-850/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-850/par-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