# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3491-21/art-2. 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（経過措置の原則） — address `suppl-3491-21/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3491-21/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3491-21/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（経過措置の原則） — Principles of Transitional Measures caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3491-21/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3491-21/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3491-21/art-2 **第一項** この法律による改正後の商法の規定は、特別の定めがある場合を除いては、当該改正規定の施行前に生じた事項にも適用する。ただし、改正前の商法の規定によつて生じた効力を妨げない。 suppl-3491-21/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3491-21/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3491-21/art-2/par-1 The provisions of the Commercial Code as amended by this Act also apply to matters that arose before the effective date of the relevant amending provisions, except where there are special provisions; provided, however, that this does not impair the effect that arose under the provisions of the Commercial Code before the amendment. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3491-21/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3491-21/art-1/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-20261105T141039-004, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05