# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百三条 (Article 603) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-603. 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: 第六百三条 (Article 603) — address `art-603` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-603 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-603 - 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. --- ### 第六百三条 art-603 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-603 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-603 **第一項** 民事保全法第五十六条に規定する仮処分命令により選任された業務を執行する社員又は持分会社を代表する社員の職務を代行する者は、仮処分命令に別段の定めがある場合を除き、持分会社の常務に属しない行為をするには、裁判所の許可を得なければならない。 art-603/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-603/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-603/par-1 A person who is appointed by a provisional disposition order provided for in Article 56 of the Civil Provisional Remedies Act to act on behalf of members who execute the business or members who represent the membership company, in carrying out of the duties of the same, must obtain the permission of the court in order to engage in any act which does not belong to the ordinary business of the membership company, unless otherwise provided for in the provisional disposition order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定に違反して行った業務を執行する社員又は持分会社を代表する社員の職務を代行する者の行為は、無効とする。ただし、持分会社は、これをもって善意の第三者に対抗することができない。 art-603/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-603/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-603/par-2 An act of a person who acts on behalf of members who execute the business or members who represent the membership company in carrying out duties of the same that is performed in violation of the provisions of the preceding paragraph is ineffective; provided, however, that the membership company may not assert that ineffectiveness against a third party in good faith. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-603/par-1: 民事保全法第五十六条 → e-Gov law 401AC0000000091, 第五十六条 (Article 56), art-56 — not held in this collection - art-603/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第六百三条第一項 (Article 603, paragraph (1)), art-603/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-603/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-603/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-603/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-603/par-2 - 会社法 第六百五十五条第六項（清算持分会社の代表） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-6 --- ## 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