# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百五十五条 (Article 655) - 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: 第六百五十五条 (Article 655)（清算持分会社の代表） — address `art-655` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655 - 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. --- ### 第六百五十五条（清算持分会社の代表） — (Representatives of Liquidating Membership Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-655 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655 **第一項** 清算人は、清算持分会社を代表する。ただし、他に清算持分会社を代表する清算人その他清算持分会社を代表する者を定めた場合は、この限りでない。 art-655/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-1 A liquidator represents the liquidating membership company; provided, however, that this does not apply if liquidators or other persons who represent the liquidating membership company are otherwise prescribed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項本文の清算人が二人以上ある場合には、清算人は、各自、清算持分会社を代表する。 art-655/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-2 If there are two or more liquidators referred to in the main clause of the preceding paragraph, each liquidator represents the liquidating membership company individually. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 清算持分会社は、定款又は定款の定めに基づく清算人（第六百四十七条第二項から第四項までの規定により裁判所が選任したものを除く。以下この項において同じ。）の互選によって、清算人の中から清算持分会社を代表する清算人を定めることができる。 art-655/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-3 A liquidating membership company may appoint liquidators who represent the liquidating membership company from among the liquidators pursuant to the articles of incorporation, or through the appointment by the liquidators (excluding those appointed by the court under the provisions of Article 647, paragraph (2) through paragraph (4); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) from among themselves pursuant to the provisions of the articles of incorporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第六百四十七条第一項第一号の規定により業務を執行する社員が清算人となる場合において、持分会社を代表する社員を定めていたときは、当該持分会社を代表する社員が清算持分会社を代表する清算人となる。 art-655/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-4 If members who execute the operations become liquidators pursuant to the provisions of Article 647, paragraph (1), item (i), if the members that represent the membership company are already prescribed, relevant members that represent the membership company become the liquidators that represent the liquidating membership company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 裁判所は、第六百四十七条第二項から第四項までの規定により清算人を選任する場合には、その清算人の中から清算持分会社を代表する清算人を定めることができる。 art-655/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-5 If the court appoints liquidators under the provisions of Article 647, paragraph (2) through paragraph (4), the court may prescribe liquidators that represent the liquidating membership company from among those liquidators. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 第五百九十九条第四項及び第五項の規定は清算持分会社を代表する清算人について、第六百三条の規定は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清算人又は清算持分会社を代表する清算人の職務を代行する者について、それぞれ準用する。 art-655/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-6 The provisions of Article 599, paragraph (4) and paragraph (5) apply mutatis mutandis to liquidators that represent the liquidating membership company, and the provisions of Article 603 apply mutatis mutandis to persons that are appointed by a provisional disposition order provided for in Article 56 of the Civil Provisional Remedies Act to perform the duties of liquidators or liquidators who represent the liquidating membership company on behalf of them, respectively. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-655/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第六百五十五条第一項 (Article 655, paragraph (1)), art-655/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-1 - art-655/par-3: 第六百四十七条第二項から第四項まで → 会社法 第六百四十七条第二項 (Article 647, paragraph (2)), art-647/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-647/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-647/par-2 - art-655/par-3: 第六百四十七条第二項から第四項まで → 会社法 第六百四十七条第三項 (Article 647, paragraph (3)), art-647/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-647/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-647/par-3 - art-655/par-3: 第六百四十七条第二項から第四項まで → 会社法 第六百四十七条第四項 (Article 647, paragraph (4)), art-647/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-647/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-647/par-4 - art-655/par-3: この項 → 会社法 第六百五十五条第三項 (Article 655, paragraph (3)), art-655/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-3 - art-655/par-4: 第六百四十七条第一項第一号 → 会社法 第六百四十七条第一項第一号 (Article 647, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-647/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-647/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-647/par-1/item-1 - art-655/par-5: 第六百四十七条第二項から第四項まで → 会社法 第六百四十七条第二項 (Article 647, paragraph (2)), art-647/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-647/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-647/par-2 - art-655/par-5: 第六百四十七条第二項から第四項まで → 会社法 第六百四十七条第三項 (Article 647, paragraph (3)), art-647/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-647/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-647/par-3 - art-655/par-5: 第六百四十七条第二項から第四項まで → 会社法 第六百四十七条第四項 (Article 647, paragraph (4)), art-647/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-647/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-647/par-4 - art-655/par-6: 第五百九十九条第四項 → 会社法 第五百九十九条第四項 (Article 599, paragraph (4)), art-599/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-599/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-599/par-4 - art-655/par-6: 第五項 → 会社法 第五百九十九条第五項 (Article 599, paragraph (5)), art-599/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-599/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-599/par-5 - art-655/par-6: 第六百三条 → 会社法 第六百三条 (Article 603), art-603 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-603 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-603 - art-655/par-6: 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 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百五十五条第二項（清算持分会社の代表） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-2 - 会社法 第六百五十五条第三項（清算持分会社の代表） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-655/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-655/par-3 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第二項（一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律及び会社法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-25/par-2 - 金融商品取引法 第百条の十七第一項（会社法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-100-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-100-17/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百二条の三十七第一項（会社法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-102-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-102-37/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 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17