# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八百五条 (Article 805) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805. 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: 第八百五条 (Article 805)（特別補償料） — address `art-805` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805 - 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. --- ### 第八百五条（特別補償料） — (Special Compensation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-805 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805 **第一項** 海難に遭遇した船舶から排出された油その他の物により海洋が汚染され、当該汚染が広範囲の沿岸海域において海洋環境の保全に著しい障害を及ぼし、若しくは人の健康を害し、又はこれらの障害を及ぼすおそれがある場合において、当該船舶の救助に従事した者が当該障害の防止又は軽減のための措置をとったときは、その者（以下この条において「汚染対処船舶救助従事者」という。）は、特約があるときを除き、船舶所有者に対し、特別補償料の支払を請求することができる。 art-805/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-1 If substances such as oil discharged from a ship involved in a marine accident cause pollution of the sea, and that pollution causes considerable harm to the conservation of the marine environment in a wide range of coastal seas, harms human health, or is likely to cause such harm, and a person engaged in the salvage of that ship takes measures to prevent or mitigate the harm, the person (hereinafter referred to as a "salvor engaged in antipollution measures" in this Article) may claim payment of special compensation against the shipowner, unless there is any special agreement to the contrary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 特別補償料の額は、前項に規定する措置として必要又は有益であった費用に相当する額とする。 art-805/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-2 The amount of special compensation is an amount equivalent to the costs necessary or beneficial for the measures prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 汚染対処船舶救助従事者がその措置により第一項に規定する障害を防止し、又は軽減したときは、特別補償料は、当事者の請求により、前項に規定する費用に相当する額以上当該額に百分の三十（当該額が当該障害の防止又は軽減の結果に比して著しく少ないことその他の特別の事情がある場合にあっては、百分の百）を乗じて得た額を加算した額以下の範囲内において、裁判所がこれを定める。この場合においては、第七百九十三条の規定を準用する。 art-805/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-3 If a salvor engaged in antipollution measures prevents or mitigates the damage prescribed in paragraph (1), the court determines the amount of special compensation, at the request of a party, within the range between an amount equivalent to the costs prescribed in the preceding paragraph and the amount calculated by adding 30 percent of that amount (or 100 percent of that amount if there are special circumstances such as that amount is extremely insufficient as compared to the results of the prevention or mitigation of the damage) to that amount. In this case, the provisions of Article 793 apply mutatis mutandis. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 汚染対処船舶救助従事者が同一の海難につき救助料に係る債権を有するときは、特別補償料の額は、当該救助料の額を控除した額とする。 art-805/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-4 If a salvor engaged in antipollution measures holds a claim for salvage charges for the same marine accident, the amount of special compensation is calculated by deducting the amount of the salvage charges. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 汚染対処船舶救助従事者の過失によって第一項に規定する障害を防止し、又は軽減することができなかったときは、裁判所は、これを考慮して、特別補償料の額を定めることができる。 art-805/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-5 If a salvor engaged in antipollution measures is unsuccessful in preventing or mitigating the damage prescribed in paragraph (1) due to its negligence, the court may determine the amount of special compensation in consideration of this. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a salvor engaged in antipollution measures is unsuccessful in preventing or mitigating the damage prescribed in paragraph (1) due to its negligence, the court determines the amount of special compensation in consideration of this." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-805/par-1: この条 → 商法 第八百五条 (Article 805), art-805 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805 - art-805/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第八百五条第一項 (Article 805, paragraph (1)), art-805/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-1 - art-805/par-3: 第一項 → 商法 第八百五条第一項 (Article 805, paragraph (1)), art-805/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-1 - art-805/par-3: 前項 → 商法 第八百五条第二項 (Article 805, paragraph (2)), art-805/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-2 - art-805/par-3: 第七百九十三条 → 商法 第七百九十三条 (Article 793), art-793 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-793 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-793 - art-805/par-5: 第一項 → 商法 第八百五条第一項 (Article 805, paragraph (1)), art-805/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第八百五条第一項（特別補償料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-1 - 商法 第八百五条第二項（特別補償料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-2 - 商法 第八百五条第三項（特別補償料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-3 - 商法 第八百五条第五項（特別補償料） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-805/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-805/par-5 --- ## 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 805, paragraph (5) — 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