# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百二十三条 (Article 723) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-723. 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: 第七百二十三条 (Article 723)（議決権の額等） — address `art-723` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-723 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-723 - 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. --- ### 第七百二十三条（議決権の額等） — (Amount of Voting Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-723 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-723 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-723 **第一項** 社債権者は、社債権者集会において、その有する当該種類の社債の金額の合計額（償還済みの額を除く。）に応じて、議決権を有する。 art-723/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-723/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-723/par-1 Bondholders have voting rights at bondholders meetings in proportion to the total amounts of bonds of the relevant classes they hold (excluding amounts already redeemed). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、社債発行会社は、その有する自己の社債については、議決権を有しない。 art-723/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-723/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-723/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a bond-issuing company does not have voting rights with respect to its own bonds that it holds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 議決権を行使しようとする無記名社債の社債権者は、社債権者集会の日の一週間前までに、その社債券を招集者に提示しなければならない。 art-723/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-723/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-723/par-3 Holders of bearer bonds who intend to exercise voting rights must present their bond certificates to the convener no later than one week prior to the day of a bondholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-723/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第七百二十三条第一項 (Article 723, paragraph (1)), art-723/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-723/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-723/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第七百二十三条第二項（議決権の額等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-723/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-723/par-2 - 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