# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-3231-148/art-4` - 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-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-3231-148/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-4 **第一項** 前条第一項に規定する株式については、会社は新法施行の日から二年内に株金全額払込済のものとするため、株金の払込をなさしめ、又は資本を減少する等必要な措置を講じなければならない。 suppl-3231-148/art-4/par-1 · 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 With respect to the shares prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, a company must, within two years from the day the New Act comes into effect, take necessary measures, such as having payment of the share price made or reducing capital, so that the full amount of the share price is paid in. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項に規定する期間内に、同項に定める措置を講じなかつた場合における措置に関しては、別に法律を以てこれを定める。 suppl-3231-148/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-4/par-2 Measures to be taken where, within the period prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the measures provided for in that paragraph were not taken are to be provided for separately by Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3231-148/art-4/par-1: 前条第一項 → 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 - suppl-3231-148/art-4/par-2: 前項 → 商法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3231-148/art-4/par-1 — 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-4/par-2 --- ## 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