Supplementary Provisions, Article 8Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Commercial Code
第八条（商法の一部改正に伴う経過措置）
With regard to a case concerning the arrangement of a company that relates to an application for the commencement of arrangement under Article 381, paragraph (1) of the Commercial Code prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 9 (referred to as the "Former Commercial Code" in the following paragraph), made before the Effective Date, or an order for the commencement of arrangement under paragraph (2) of that Article, made ex officio before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
施行日前にされた第九条の規定による改正前の商法（次項において「旧商法」という。）第三百八十一条第一項の規定による整理開始の申立て又は施行日前に職権でされた同条第二項の規定による整理開始の命令に係る会社の整理に関する事件については、なお従前の例による。
With regard to a case concerning special liquidation that relates to an application for the commencement of special liquidation under Article 431 of the Former Commercial Code, made before the Effective Date, or an order for the commencement of special liquidation under Article 381, paragraph (2) of the Former Commercial Code as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 431, paragraph (3) of the Former Commercial Code, made ex officio before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
施行日前にされた旧商法第四百三十一条の規定による特別清算開始の申立て又は施行日前に職権でされた同条第三項において準用する旧商法第三百八十一条第二項の規定による特別清算開始の命令に係る特別清算に関する事件については、なお従前の例による。
With regard to the prohibition of set-off by an obligee in the case where the cause of the assumption of an obligation to a company arose before the Effective Date with respect to the obligee, and the prohibition of set-off by a person who owes an obligation to an obligor in the case where the cause of the acquisition of a claim against a company arose before the Effective Date with respect to that person, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 71 and 72 of the new Bankruptcy Act as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 403, paragraph (1) or Article 456, paragraph (1) of the Commercial Code after the amendment by the provisions of Article 9.
Former Commercial Codemachine translation
「旧商法」
In Article 8 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 76 of 2004, the Commercial Code as it stood before Article 9 of that Act amended it.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (2)