# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第九百六十五条 (Article 965) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-965. 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: 第九百六十五条 (Article 965)（預合いの罪） — address `art-965` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-965 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-965 - 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. --- ### 第九百六十五条（預合いの罪） — (Crime of Falsifying Payments in Collusion with Officers and Employees of Institutions That Handle Payments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-965 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-965 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-965 **第一項** 第九百六十条第一項第一号から第七号までに掲げる者が、株式の発行に係る払込みを仮装するため預合いを行ったときは、五年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。預合いに応じた者も、同様とする。 art-965/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-965/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-965/par-1 When any one of the persons set forth in Article 960, paragraph (1), items (i) through (vii) colludes with officers and employees of an institution that handles payments for the purpose of falsifying payments for a share issue, the person is punished by imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than five million yen, or both. The same applies to any institution that participates in the collusion. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-965/par-1: 第九百六十条第一項第一号から第七号まで → 会社法 第九百六十条第一項第一号 (Article 960, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-960/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-960/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-960/par-1/item-1 - art-965/par-1: 第九百六十条第一項第一号から第七号まで → 会社法 第九百六十条第一項第二号 (Article 960, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-960/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-960/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-960/par-1/item-2 - art-965/par-1: 第九百六十条第一項第一号から第七号まで → 会社法 第九百六十条第一項第三号 (Article 960, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-960/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-960/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-960/par-1/item-3 - art-965/par-1: 第九百六十条第一項第一号から第七号まで → 会社法 第九百六十条第一項第四号 (Article 960, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-960/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-960/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-960/par-1/item-4 - art-965/par-1: 第九百六十条第一項第一号から第七号まで → 会社法 第九百六十条第一項第五号 (Article 960, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-960/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-960/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-960/par-1/item-5 - art-965/par-1: 第九百六十条第一項第一号から第七号まで → 会社法 第九百六十条第一項第六号 (Article 960, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-960/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-960/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-960/par-1/item-6 - art-965/par-1: 第九百六十条第一項第一号から第七号まで → 会社法 第九百六十条第一項第七号 (Article 960, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-960/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-960/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-960/par-1/item-7 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百七十一条第一項（国外犯） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-971/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-971/par-1 - 会社法 第九百七十二条第一項（法人における罰則の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-972/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-972/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 - 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 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch companies-act-20260917T143643-001, translated 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17