# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第二十七条 (Article 27) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-27. 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: 商法 (Commercial Code), 明治三十二年法律第四十八号 - English title "Commercial Code": 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27)（通知義務） — address `art-27` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-27 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-27 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条（通知義務） — (Duty of Notice) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-27 **第一項** 代理商（商人のためにその平常の営業の部類に属する取引の代理又は媒介をする者で、その商人の使用人でないものをいう。以下この章において同じ。）は、取引の代理又は媒介をしたときは、遅滞なく、商人に対して、その旨の通知を発しなければならない。 art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-27/par-1 Having acted as agent or intermediary in a transaction, a commercial agent (meaning a person that is not the employee of a merchant but that acts on behalf of the merchant as the agent or intermediary in a transaction that is in the merchant's ordinary line of business; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) must issue notice of this to the merchant without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第五百五十七条第一項（代理商に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-557/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-557/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 商法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/132AC0000000048/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05