# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百六十四条 (Article 564) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-564. 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: 第五百六十四条 (Article 564)（協定の条項） — address `art-564` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-564 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-564 - 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. --- ### 第五百六十四条（協定の条項） — (Terms and Conditions of Agreements) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-564 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-564 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-564 **第一項** 協定においては、協定債権者の権利（第五百二十二条第二項に規定する担保権を除く。）の全部又は一部の変更に関する条項を定めなければならない。 art-564/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-564/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-564/par-1 Terms and conditions regarding the change of some or all of the rights of agreement claim creditors (excluding the security interest provided for in Article 522, paragraph (2)) must be provided for in the agreements. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 協定債権者の権利の全部又は一部を変更する条項においては、債務の減免、期限の猶予その他の権利の変更の一般的基準を定めなければならない。 art-564/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-564/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-564/par-2 The terms and conditions that change some or all of the rights of agreement claim creditors must prescribe reductions of debts and extensions of terms and other general standards for the change in rights. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-564/par-1: 第五百二十二条第二項 → 会社法 第五百二十二条第二項 (Article 522, paragraph (2)), art-522/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-522/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-522/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百七十二条第一項（協定の内容の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-572/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-572/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