# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4121-90/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（労働契約の取扱いに関する措置） — address `suppl-4121-90/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4121-90/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4121-90/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（労働契約の取扱いに関する措置） — Measures on the Handling of Labor Contracts caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4121-90/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4121-90/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4121-90/art-5 **第一項** 会社法（平成十七年法律第八十六号）の規定に基づく会社分割に伴う労働契約の承継に関しては、会社分割をする会社は、会社分割に伴う労働契約の承継等に関する法律（平成十二年法律第百三号）第二条第一項の規定による通知をすべき日までに、労働者と協議をするものとする。 suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-1 With regard to the succession to labor contracts upon a company split under the provisions of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005), the company that is to split is to consult with workers by the day on which notice is to be given under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Succession to Labor Contracts upon Company Split (Act No. 103 of 2000). machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項に規定するもののほか、同項の労働契約の承継に関連して必要となる労働者の保護に関しては、別に法律で定める。 suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-2 In addition to what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the protection of workers that becomes necessary in connection with the succession to labor contracts under that paragraph is to be provided for separately by law. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-1: 会社分割に伴う労働契約の承継等に関する法律（平成十二年法律第百三号）第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 412AC0000000103, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-2: 前項 → 商法 附則第五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (1)), suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第五条第二項（労働契約の取扱いに関する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4121-90/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4121-90/art-5/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-20261105T141039-009, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05