# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百七条 (Article 707) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-707. 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: 第七百七条 (Article 707)（特別代理人の選任） — address `art-707` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-707 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-707 - 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. --- ### 第七百七条（特別代理人の選任） — (Appointment of Special Agent) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-707 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-707 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-707 **第一項** 社債権者と社債管理者との利益が相反する場合において、社債権者のために裁判上又は裁判外の行為をする必要があるときは、裁判所は、社債権者集会の申立てにより、特別代理人を選任しなければならない。 art-707/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-707/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-707/par-1 If there is conflict between the interests of the bondholders and those of the bond administrator, if it is necessary to carry out judicial and non-judicial acts on behalf of bondholders, the court must, in response to a petition by the bondholders meeting, appoint a special agent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第七百八条第一項（社債管理者等の行為の方式） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-708/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-708/par-1 - 会社法 第七百十四条の七第一項（社債管理者に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-714-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-714-7/par-1 - 会社法 第七百二十九条第一項（社債発行会社の代表者の出席等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-729/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-729/par-1 - 会社法 第八百六十八条第四項（非訟事件の管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-868/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-868/par-4 - 医療法 第五十四条の七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-54-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-7/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