# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百四十二条 (Article 742) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-742. 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: 第七百四十二条 (Article 742)（社債権者集会等の費用の負担） — address `art-742` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-742 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-742 - 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. --- ### 第七百四十二条（社債権者集会等の費用の負担） — (Burden of Costs of Bondholders Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-742 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-742 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-742 **第一項** 社債権者集会に関する費用は、社債発行会社の負担とする。 art-742/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-742/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-742/par-1 The costs of bondholders meetings are borne by the bond-issuing company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七百三十二条の申立てに関する費用は、社債発行会社の負担とする。ただし、裁判所は、社債発行会社その他利害関係人の申立てにより又は職権で、当該費用の全部又は一部について、招集者その他利害関係人の中から別に負担者を定めることができる。 art-742/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-742/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-742/par-2 The costs of the petition in Article 732 are borne by the bond-issuing company; provided, however, that the court may in response to the petition by the bond-issuing company or other interested parties or ex officio, separately prescribe a person from among the convener and other interested parties to bear some or all of the costs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-742/par-2: 第七百三十二条 → 会社法 第七百三十二条 (Article 732), art-732 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-732 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-732 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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