# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)

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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
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- Provision: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（旧社債に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4051-62/art-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第五条（旧社債に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on Old Bonds
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4051-62/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4051-62/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4051-62/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前に社債（担保付社債を除く。以下この条、次条及び附則第十四条において同じ。）の募集の決議があった場合においては、その社債に関しては、この法律の施行後も、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4051-62/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4051-62/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4051-62/art-5/par-1</sup>
If, before this Act comes into effect, a resolution has been adopted for the solicitation of bonds (excluding secured bonds; the same applies hereinafter in this Article, the following Article, and Article 14 of the Supplementary Provisions), the provisions then in force continue to govern those bonds after this Act comes into effect.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4051-62/art-5/par-1: この条 → 商法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-4051-62/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4051-62/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4051-62/art-5
- suppl-4051-62/art-5/par-1: 次条 → 商法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-4051-62/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4051-62/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4051-62/art-6

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 商法 附則第五条第一項（旧社債に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4051-62/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4051-62/art-5/par-1
- 商法 附則第六条第一項（旧社債の社債権者集会に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4051-62/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4051-62/art-6/par-1

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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-20261105T141039-007, translated 2026-11-06
- This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05
