# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第九百四十七条 (Article 947) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947. 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: 第九百四十七条 (Article 947)（電子公告調査を行うことができない場合） — address `art-947` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-947 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九百四十七条（電子公告調査を行うことができない場合） — (Cases Where an Electronic Public Notice Investigation Is Unable to Be Carried Out) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-947 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-947 **第一項** 調査機関は、次に掲げる者の電子公告による公告又はその者若しくはその理事等が電子公告による公告に関与した場合として法務省令で定める場合における当該公告については、電子公告調査を行うことができない。 art-947/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-947/par-1 An investigation body is unable to carry out an electronic public notice investigation with regard to public notice given by any one of the following persons by way of electronic public notice or with regard to the public notice in the cases prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order as those where the persons or directors, etc. thereof were involved in the public notice given by way of electronic public notice: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該調査機関 art-947/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-947/par-1/item-1 the relevant investigation body; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 当該調査機関が株式会社である場合における親株式会社（当該調査機関を子会社とする株式会社をいう。） art-947/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-947/par-1/item-2 the parent stock company (meaning a stock company which has the relevant investigation body as its subsidiary company) if the relevant investigation body is a stock company; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 理事等又は職員（過去二年間にそのいずれかであった者を含む。次号において同じ。）が当該調査機関の理事等に占める割合が二分の一を超える法人 art-947/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-947/par-1/item-3 a corporation whose directors, etc. or employees (including those who have been in either of the positions within the past two years; the same applies in the following item) constitute more than half of the directors, etc. of the relevant investigation body; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 理事等又は職員のうちに当該調査機関（法人であるものを除く。）又は当該調査機関の代表権を有する理事等が含まれている法人 art-947/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-947/par-1/item-4 a corporation whose directors, etc. or employees include the relevant investigation body (excluding one who is a corporation) or a director, etc. having the authority of representation of the relevant investigation body. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-947/par-1/item-3: 次号 → 会社法 第九百四十七条第一項第四号 (Article 947, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-947/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-947/par-1/item-4 ## Cited by 12 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百四十三条第一項第三号（欠格事由） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-943/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-943/par-1/item-3 - 会社法 第九百四十七条第一項第三号（電子公告調査を行うことができない場合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-947/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-947/par-1/item-3 - 会社法 第九百五十四条第一項第二号（登録の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-954/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-954/par-1/item-2 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十三の二第六項（債権者の異議等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-23-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-23-2/par-6 - 資金決済に関する法律 第二十条第四項（保有者に対する前払式支払手段の払戻し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-20/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-20/par-4 - 資金決済に関する法律 第六十一条第七項（廃止の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-61/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-61/par-7 - 資金決済に関する法律 第六十二条の二十五第七項（廃止の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-62-25/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-62-25/par-7 - 資金決済に関する法律 第六十三条の二十第七項（廃止の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/payment-services-act/art-63-20/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-63-20/par-7 - 金融商品取引法 第五十条の二第十項（廃業等の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-50-2/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-50-2/par-10 - 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十第六項（廃業等の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-40/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-40/par-6 - 銀行法 第四十九条の二第二項（外国銀行支店の公告方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-49-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49-2/par-2 - 銀行法 第五十二条の六十の三十六第七項（廃止の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-52-60-36/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-60-36/par-7 --- ## 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