# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/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)（子会社が有する親会社の株式又は持分に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3561-74/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条（子会社が有する親会社の株式又は持分に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Shares or Equity Interests in a Parent Company Held by a Subsidiary caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3561-74/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行の際改正後の商法第二百十一条ノ二（改正後の有限会社法第二十四条第一項において準用する場合を含む。以下この項において同じ。）に規定する子会社が改正後の商法第二百十一条ノ二に規定する親会社の株式又は持分を有しているときは、その子会社は、相当の時期に、その株式又は持分の処分をしなければならない。 suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 If, at the time this Act comes into effect, a subsidiary prescribed in Article 211-2 of the Commercial Code after amendment (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Limited Liability Companies Act after amendment; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) holds shares or equity interests in a parent company prescribed in Article 211-2 of the Commercial Code after amendment, that subsidiary must dispose of those shares or equity interests within a reasonable time. machine translation, not official **第二項** 改正後の商法第四百九十八条第一項第十二号及び第二項並びに改正後の有限会社法第八十五条第一項第七号及び第二項の規定は、前項の規定に違反して株式又は持分の処分をしなかつた場合について準用する。 suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-2 The provisions of Article 498, paragraph (1), item (xii) and paragraph (2) of the Commercial Code after amendment and Article 85, paragraph (1), item (vii) and paragraph (2) of the Limited Liability Companies Act after amendment apply mutatis mutandis to the case where shares or equity interests have not been disposed of in violation of the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1: この項 → 商法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 - suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-2: 前項 → 商法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第四条第一項（子会社が有する親会社の株式又は持分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-1 - 商法 附則第四条第二項（子会社が有する親会社の株式又は持分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/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-20261105T141039-005, translated 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch commercial-code-20261105T141039-005, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05