# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百八十二条 (Article 582) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-582. 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: 第五百八十二条 (Article 582)（社員の出資に係る責任） — address `art-582` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-582 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-582 - 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. --- ### 第五百八十二条（社員の出資に係る責任） — (Members' Liability in Relation to Contributions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-582 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-582 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-582 **第一項** 社員が金銭を出資の目的とした場合において、その出資をすることを怠ったときは、当該社員は、その利息を支払うほか、損害の賠償をしなければならない。 art-582/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-582/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-582/par-1 If a member provides monies as the subject matter of a contribution, if the member fails to effect that contribution, relevant member must compensate the loss in addition to the payment of interest on that contribution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 社員が債権を出資の目的とした場合において、当該債権の債務者が弁済期に弁済をしなかったときは、当該社員は、その弁済をする責任を負う。この場合においては、当該社員は、その利息を支払うほか、損害の賠償をしなければならない。 art-582/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-582/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-582/par-2 If a member provides claims as the subject matter of a contribution, if the obligor of relevant claims fails to perform the obligations when they become due, relevant member must be liable for the performance of the same. In these cases, relevant member must compensate the loss in addition to the payment of interest on the obligations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第一項（一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律及び会社法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-25/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