# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

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- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（定義） — address `suppl-3371-82/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3371-82/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3371-82/art-2
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### 第二条（定義） — Definitions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3371-82/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3371-82/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3371-82/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  この附則で、「新法」とは、この法律による改正後の商法をいい、「旧法」とは、従前の商法をいう。
<sup>suppl-3371-82/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3371-82/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3371-82/art-2/par-1</sup>
In these Supplementary Provisions, the "new Act" means the Commercial Code as amended by this Act, and the "former Act" means the previous Commercial Code.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261105T141039-003, translated 2026-11-05
- This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05