# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百五十条 (Article 550) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-550. 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: 第五百五十条 (Article 550)（債権者集会参考書類及び議決権行使書面の交付等） — address `art-550` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-550 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-550 - 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. --- ### 第五百五十条（債権者集会参考書類及び議決権行使書面の交付等） — (Issuance of Reference Documents for Creditors Meetings and Voting Form) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-550 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-550 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-550 **第一項** 招集者は、前条第一項の通知に際しては、法務省令で定めるところにより、債権の申出をした協定債権者その他清算株式会社に知れている協定債権者に対し、当該協定債権者が有する協定債権について第五百四十八条第二項又は第三項の規定により定められた事項及び議決権の行使について参考となるべき事項を記載した書類（次項において「債権者集会参考書類」という。）並びに協定債権者が議決権を行使するための書面（以下この款において「議決権行使書面」という。）を交付しなければならない。 art-550/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-550/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-550/par-1 The convener must, when giving a notice under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, issue to the agreement claim creditors that stated their claims and other agreement claim creditors known to the liquidating stock company, documents stating the matters provided for under the provisions of Article 548, paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) with respect to the agreement claims held by relevant agreement claim creditors and matters of reference for the exercising the voting rights (in the following paragraph referred to as "Reference documents for creditors meeting") as well as the document to be used by the agreement claim creditors to exercise the voting rights (hereinafter in this Subsection referred to as "voting form") as prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The convener must, when giving a notice under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, issue to the agreement claim creditors that stated their claims and other agreement claim creditors known to the liquidating stock company, documents stating the matters provided for under the provisions of Article 548, paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) with respect to the agreement claims held by relevant agreement claim creditors and maters of reference for the exercising the voting rights (in the following paragraph referred to as "Reference documents for creditors meeting") as well as the document to be used by the agreement claim creditors to exercise the voting rights (hereinafter in this Subsection referred to as "voting form") as prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb **第二項** 招集者は、前条第二項の承諾をした協定債権者に対し同項の電磁的方法による通知を発するときは、前項の規定による債権者集会参考書類及び議決権行使書面の交付に代えて、これらの書類に記載すべき事項を電磁的方法により提供することができる。ただし、協定債権者の請求があったときは、これらの書類を当該協定債権者に交付しなければならない。 art-550/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-550/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-550/par-2 If the convener issues notices by electronic or magnetic means as referred to in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article to the agreement claim creditors that have given the consent referred to in that paragraph, the convener may use electronic or magnetic means to provide the information that is required to be detailed in that document, in lieu of delivering the creditors meeting reference documents and voting form under the provisions of the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that, if requested by an agreement claim creditor, the convener must deliver these documents to relevant agreement claim creditor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-550/par-1: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第五百四十九条第一項 (Article 549, paragraph (1)), art-549/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-549/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-549/par-1 - art-550/par-1: 第五百四十八条第二項 → 会社法 第五百四十八条第二項 (Article 548, paragraph (2)), art-548/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-548/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-548/par-2 - art-550/par-1: 第三項 → 会社法 第五百四十八条第三項 (Article 548, paragraph (3)), art-548/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-548/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-548/par-3 - art-550/par-1: 次項 → 会社法 第五百五十条第二項 (Article 550, paragraph (2)), art-550/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-550/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-550/par-2 - art-550/par-2: 前条第二項 → 会社法 第五百四十九条第二項 (Article 549, paragraph (2)), art-549/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-549/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-549/par-2 - art-550/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第五百五十条第一項 (Article 550, paragraph (1)), art-550/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-550/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-550/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百五十条第一項（債権者集会参考書類及び議決権行使書面の交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-550/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-550/par-1 - 会社法 第五百五十条第二項（債権者集会参考書類及び議決権行使書面の交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-550/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-550/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-09-23 - 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 (会社法), Article 550, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), 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