# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第九百十九条 (Article 919) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-919. 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: 第九百十九条 (Article 919)（持分会社の種類の変更の登記） — address `art-919` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-919 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-919 - 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. --- ### 第九百十九条（持分会社の種類の変更の登記） — (Registration of a Change of Kind of Membership Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-919 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-919 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-919 **第一項** 持分会社が第六百三十八条の規定により他の種類の持分会社となったときは、同条に規定する定款の変更の効力が生じた日から二週間以内に、その本店の所在地において、種類の変更前の持分会社については解散の登記をし、種類の変更後の持分会社については設立の登記をしなければならない。 art-919/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-919/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-919/par-1 When a membership company becomes a membership company of another kind pursuant to the provisions of Article 638, the registration of dissolution must be completed with regard to the membership company as it was prior to the change of kind and the registration of incorporation must be completed with regard to the membership company as it will be after the change of kind, at the location of the head office, within two weeks from the day on which the change to the articles of incorporation prescribed in that Article became effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-919/par-1: 第六百三十八条 → 会社法 第六百三十八条 (Article 638), art-638 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-638 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-638 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百三十三条第四項（外国会社の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-933/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-933/par-4 --- ## 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4482/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