# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六十条 (Article 60) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-60. 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: 第六十条 (Article 60)（設立時募集株式の割当て） — address `art-60` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-60 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-60 - 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. --- ### 第六十条（設立時募集株式の割当て） — (Allotment of Shares Solicited at Incorporation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-60 **第一項** 発起人は、申込者の中から設立時募集株式の割当てを受ける者を定め、かつ、その者に割り当てる設立時募集株式の数を定めなければならない。この場合において、発起人は、当該申込者に割り当てる設立時募集株式の数を、前条第三項第二号の数よりも減少することができる。 art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-60/par-1 The incorporators must specify from among the applicants the persons to whom the shares solicited at incorporation are allotted, and specify the number of the shares solicited at incorporation that are allotted to relevant persons. In these cases, the incorporators may reduce the number of the shares solicited at incorporation to be allotted to relevant applicants to less than the number referred to in paragraph (3), item (ii) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 発起人は、第五十八条第一項第三号の期日（同号の期間を定めた場合にあっては、その期間の初日）の前日までに、申込者に対し、当該申込者に割り当てる設立時募集株式の数を通知しなければならない。 art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-60/par-2 The incorporator must notify the Applicant, no later than the day immediately preceding the date referred to in Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iii) (or, in case a period is specified under that item, no later than the day immediately preceding the first day of that period), of the number of the shares solicited at incorporation that are allotted to relevant applicant. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-60/par-1: 前条第三項第二号 → 会社法 第五十九条第三項第二号 (Article 59, paragraph (3), item (ii)), art-59/par-3/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-59/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-59/par-3/item-2 - art-60/par-2: 第五十八条第一項第三号 → 会社法 第五十八条第一項第三号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-58/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-58/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-58/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六十一条第一項（設立時募集株式の申込み及び割当てに関する特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-61/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