# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百二十八条 (Article 628) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-628. 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: 第六百二十八条 (Article 628)（利益の配当の制限） — address `art-628` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-628 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第六百二十八条（利益の配当の制限） — (Restriction on Distribution of Profits) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-628 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-628 **第一項** 合同会社は、利益の配当により社員に対して交付する金銭等の帳簿価額（以下この款において「配当額」という。）が当該利益の配当をする日における利益額を超える場合には、当該利益の配当をすることができない。この場合においては、合同会社は、第六百二十一条第一項の規定による請求を拒むことができる。 art-628/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-628/par-1 If the book value of the monies, etc. delivered to members of a limited liability company through the distribution of profits (hereinafter in this Subsection referred to as "distributed amount") exceeds the amount of the profit as at the day when relevant distribution of profit takes place, relevant distribution of profit cannot be effected. In these cases, the limited liability company may reject demands under the provisions of Article 621, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-628/par-1: 第六百二十一条第一項 → 会社法 第六百二十一条第一項 (Article 621, paragraph (1)), art-621/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-621/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百二十九条第一項（利益の配当に関する責任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-629/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 224 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17