# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第三十条 (Article 30) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-30. 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: 第三十条 (Article 30)（契約の解除） — address `art-30` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-30 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-30 - 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. --- ### 第三十条（契約の解除） — (Contract Cancellation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Contract Termination)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-30 **第一項** 商人及び代理商は、契約の期間を定めなかったときは、二箇月前までに予告し、その契約を解除することができる。 art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-30/par-1 If a merchant and a commercial agent do not fix the term of a contract, either may cancel that contract with two months' advance notice. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a merchant and a commercial agent do not fix the term of a contract, either may terminate that contract with two months' advance notice." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、やむを得ない事由があるときは、商人及び代理商は、いつでもその契約を解除することができる。 art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-30/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if there is a compelling reason, a merchant or a commercial agent may cancel the contract between them at any time. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if there is a compelling reason, a merchant or a commercial agent may terminate the contract between them at any time." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-30/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-30/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第三十条第二項（契約の解除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-30/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-05 - 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 (商法), Article 30 — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code (商法), Article 30, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code (商法), Article 30, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), 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