# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-3231-148/art-5` - 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-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 suppl-3231-148/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-5 **第一項** 旧法第二百九十七条第一項第二項及び第三百一条第一項第十号の規定は、株金全額の払込の完了していない株式のある会社の社債の発行に関しては、新法施行後も、なおその効力を有する。 suppl-3231-148/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-5/par-1 Article 297, paragraphs (1) and (2) and Article 301, paragraph (1), item (x) of the Former Act remain in force, even after the New Act comes into effect, with respect to the issuance of bonds by a company that has shares for which payment of the full amount of the share price has not been completed. machine translation, not official --- ## 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