# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百二十四条 (Article 624) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-624. 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: 第六百二十四条 (Article 624) — address `art-624` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-624 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-624 - 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. --- ### 第六百二十四条 art-624 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-624 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-624 **第一項** 社員は、持分会社に対し、既に出資として払込み又は給付をした金銭等の払戻し（以下この編において「出資の払戻し」という。）を請求することができる。この場合において、当該金銭等が金銭以外の財産であるときは、当該財産の価額に相当する金銭の払戻しを請求することを妨げない。 art-624/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-624/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-624/par-1 Members may demand that the membership company refund the monies, etc. that members have already paid in or delivered as contributions (hereinafter in this Part referred to as "contribution refunds"). In these cases, if relevant monies, etc. consist of any property other than monies, they are not precluded from demanding the refund of monies in an amount equivalent to the value of relevant property. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 持分会社は、出資の払戻しを請求する方法その他の出資の払戻しに関する事項を定款で定めることができる。 art-624/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-624/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-624/par-2 Membership company may prescribe matters regarding the method for demanding the contribution refunds and other matters on contribution refunds in its articles of incorporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 社員の持分の差押えは、出資の払戻しを請求する権利に対しても、その効力を有する。 art-624/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-624/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-624/par-3 Attachment of the equity interest of a member is also effective against the rights to demand a contribution refunds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百三十二条第一項（出資の払戻しの制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-632/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-632/par-1 - 会社法 第六百三十二条第二項（出資の払戻しの制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-632/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-632/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