# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百三十九条 (Article 739) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-739. 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: 第七百三十九条 (Article 739)（社債の利息の支払等を怠ったことによる期限の利益の喪失） — address `art-739` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-739 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-739 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七百三十九条（社債の利息の支払等を怠ったことによる期限の利益の喪失） — (Forfeiture of the Benefit of Time for Failure to Pay Interest on Bonds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-739 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-739 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-739 **第一項** 社債発行会社が社債の利息の支払を怠ったとき、又は定期に社債の一部を償還しなければならない場合においてその償還を怠ったときは、社債権者集会の決議に基づき、当該決議を執行する者は、社債発行会社に対し、一定の期間内にその弁済をしなければならない旨及び当該期間内にその弁済をしないときは当該社債の総額について期限の利益を喪失する旨を書面により通知することができる。ただし、当該期間は、二箇月を下ることができない。 art-739/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-739/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-739/par-1 If a bond-issuing company fails to pay interest on bonds, or fails to periodically partially redeem bonds if it must carry out that redemption, pursuant to a resolution at a bondholders meeting, the person executing the resolution may give written notice to the bond-issuing company to the effect that it must make payment within a defined period of time, and to the effect that, if payment is not made within relevant period of time, the bond-issuing company will forfeit the benefit of time as to the total amount of relevant bonds; provided, however, that relevant period may not be less than two months. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の決議を執行する者は、同項の規定による書面による通知に代えて、政令で定めるところにより、社債発行会社の承諾を得て、同項の規定により通知する事項を電磁的方法により提供することができる。この場合において、当該決議を執行する者は、当該書面による通知をしたものとみなす。 art-739/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-739/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-739/par-2 A person who executes a resolution under the preceding paragraph may, in lieu of the written notice under the provisions of that paragraph, provide the matters to be notified under the provisions of that paragraph by electronic or magnetic means, with the approval of the bond-issuing company, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order. In these cases, the person who executes relevant resolution is deemed to have given relevant written notice. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 社債発行会社は、第一項の期間内に同項の弁済をしなかったときは、当該社債の総額について期限の利益を喪失する。 art-739/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-739/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-739/par-3 If a bond-issuing company fails to make the payment in paragraph (1) within the period in that paragraph, it will forfeit the benefit of time with respect to the total amount of relevant bonds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-739/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第七百三十九条第一項 (Article 739, paragraph (1)), art-739/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-739/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-739/par-1 - art-739/par-3: 第一項 → 会社法 第七百三十九条第一項 (Article 739, paragraph (1)), art-739/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-739/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-739/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第七百三十九条第二項（社債の利息の支払等を怠ったことによる期限の利益の喪失） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-739/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-739/par-2 - 会社法 第七百三十九条第三項（社債の利息の支払等を怠ったことによる期限の利益の喪失） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-739/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-739/par-3 - 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