When any commercial agent (meaning a person who acts on behalf of a company as an agent or intermediary in any transaction in the ordinary line of business of the company, and is not an employee of the company; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) undertakes any transaction as an agent or intermediary, the commercial agent must give notice of that fact to the company without delay.
代理商（会社のためにその平常の事業の部類に属する取引の代理又は媒介をする者で、その会社の使用人でないものをいう。以下この節において同じ。）は、取引の代理又は媒介をしたときは、遅滞なく、会社に対して、その旨の通知を発しなければならない。
company
「会社」
Any of the four kinds of company this Act governs: a stock company (株式会社), a general partnership company (合名会社), a limited partnership company (合資会社) or a limited liability company (合同会社).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
commercial agent
「代理商」
A person, not an employee of the company, who regularly acts as agent or intermediary for a company in transactions in its ordinary line of business.
Defined inArticle 16, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section