# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百五十六条 (Article 556) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-556. 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: 第五百五十六条 (Article 556)（書面による議決権の行使） — address `art-556` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-556 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-556 - 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. --- ### 第五百五十六条（書面による議決権の行使） — (Voting in Writing) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-556 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-556 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-556 **第一項** 債権者集会に出席しない協定債権者は、書面によって議決権を行使することができる。 art-556/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-556/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-556/par-1 Agreement claim creditors who do not attend the creditors meeting may exercise their voting rights in writing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 書面による議決権の行使は、議決権行使書面に必要な事項を記載し、法務省令で定める時までに当該記載をした議決権行使書面を招集者に提出して行う。 art-556/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-556/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-556/par-2 The exercise of voting rights in writing is effected by entering necessary matters on the voting form and submitting it to the convener by the time prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定により書面によって議決権を行使した議決権者は、第五百五十四条第一項及び第五百六十七条第一項の規定の適用については、債権者集会に出席したものとみなす。 art-556/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-556/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-556/par-3 Voting rights holders who exercised the voting rights in writing pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are deemed to have been present at the creditors meeting for the purpose of the provisions of Article 554, paragraph (1) and Article 567, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-556/par-3: 前項 → 会社法 第五百五十六条第二項 (Article 556, paragraph (2)), art-556/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-556/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-556/par-2 - art-556/par-3: 第五百五十四条第一項 → 会社法 第五百五十四条第一項 (Article 554, paragraph (1)), art-554/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-554/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-554/par-1 - art-556/par-3: 第五百六十七条第一項 → 会社法 第五百六十七条第一項 (Article 567, paragraph (1)), art-567/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-567/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-567/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百五十六条第三項（書面による議決権の行使） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-556/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-556/par-3 --- ## 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