# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-3231-148/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-3231-148/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-3 **第一項** 新法施行の際、株金全額の払込の完了していない株式に関しては、新法施行後もなお旧法を適用する。新法施行前に行われた設立又は資本増加の際引受のあつた株式で、一時に全額を払込ませないものに関しても、また同様である。 suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-1 At the time the New Act comes into effect, the Former Act continues to apply, even after the New Act comes into effect, to shares for which payment of the full amount of the share price has not been completed. The same applies to shares for which subscription was made, at the time of incorporation or capital increase carried out before the New Act came into effect, and for which the full amount is not to be paid in at one time. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項に定めるものの外、新法施行前に生じた事項については、旧法を適用する。 suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-2 In addition to what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, the Former Act applies to matters that arose before the New Act came into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-2: 前項 → 商法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-3/par-2 - 商法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-4/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch commercial-code-20261105T141039-002, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05