# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第九百二十三条 (Article 923) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-923. 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: 第九百二十三条 (Article 923)（吸収分割の登記） — address `art-923` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-923 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-923 - 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. --- ### 第九百二十三条（吸収分割の登記） — (Registration of an Absorption-Type Company Split) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-923 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-923 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-923 **第一項** 会社が吸収分割をしたときは、そ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、吸収分割をする会社及び当該会社がその事業に関して有する権利義務の全部又は一部を当該会社から承継する会社についての変更の登記をしなければならない。 art-923/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-923/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-923/par-1 When a company effects an absorption-type company split, the registration of a change must be completed with regard to the company effecting the absorption-type company split and the company succeeding to all or part of the rights and obligations held by the company in connection with its business by transfer from relevant company, at the location of the head office, within two weeks from the day on which the absorption-type company split became effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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