# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百九十二条 (Article 592) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-592. 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: 第五百九十二条 (Article 592)（社員の持分会社の業務及び財産状況に関する調査） — address `art-592` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-592 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-592 - 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. --- ### 第五百九十二条（社員の持分会社の業務及び財産状況に関する調査） — (Members' Investigations Regarding Status of Business and Assets of Membership Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-592 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-592 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-592 **第一項** 業務を執行する社員を定款で定めた場合には、各社員は、持分会社の業務を執行する権利を有しないときであっても、その業務及び財産の状況を調査することができる。 art-592/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-592/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-592/par-1 If members who execute the business are provided for in the articles of incorporation, each member may investigate the status of the business and assets of the membership company even if the member does not have the rights to execute the business of the same. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、定款で別段の定めをすることを妨げない。ただし、定款によっても、社員が事業年度の終了時又は重要な事由があるときに同項の規定による調査をすることを制限する旨を定めることができない。 art-592/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-592/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-592/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not preclude provisions to the contrary in the articles of incorporation; provided, however, that even the articles of incorporation may not provide to the effect of restricting the carrying out of investigations by members provided for in that paragraph at the end of the business year or if there are significant grounds to do so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-592/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第五百九十二条第一項 (Article 592, paragraph (1)), art-592/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-592/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-592/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百九十二条第二項（社員の持分会社の業務及び財産状況に関する調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-592/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-592/par-2 --- ## 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