# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（取締役等の資格に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3561-74/art-8` - 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-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条（取締役等の資格に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Qualifications of Directors, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3561-74/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-8 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に在任する取締役、監査役及び清算人については、改正後の商法第二百五十四条ノ二第一号及び第二号（同法第二百八十条第一項及び第四百三十条第二項並びに有限会社法第三十二条、第三十四条及び第七十五条第二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。）の規定は、この法律の施行後最初に招集される株主総会の終結の時までは、適用しない。ただし、この法律の施行後に改正後の商法第二百五十四条ノ二第一号又は第二号に該当することとなつたものについては、この限りでない。 suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-1 With regard to the directors, company auditors, and liquidators who are in office at the time this Act comes into effect, the provisions of Article 254-2, items (i) and (ii) of the Commercial Code after amendment (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 280, paragraph (1) and Article 430, paragraph (2) of that Code and Articles 32 and 34 and Article 75, paragraph (2) of the Limited Liability Companies Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) do not apply until the close of the first shareholders meeting convened after this Act comes into effect; provided, however, that this does not apply to a person who comes to fall under item (i) or (ii) of Article 254-2 of the Commercial Code after amendment after this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行前にした行為について刑に処せられた者に係る取締役、監査役及び清算人の資格に関しては、この法律の施行後も、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-2 With regard to the qualifications of directors, company auditors, and liquidators concerning a person who has been sentenced to a penalty for an act committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern, even after this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-1: この項 → 商法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第八条第一項（取締役等の資格に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-3561-74/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3561-74/art-8/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-20261105T141039-005, 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