# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-6. 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（取締役又は使用人に対する新株の引受権の付与に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4131-128/art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（取締役又は使用人に対する新株の引受権の付与に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on Granting Subscription Rights for New Shares to Directors or Employees caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4131-128/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-6 **第一項** この法律の施行前に旧商法第二百八十条ノ十九第二項の決議があった場合においては、当該決議に基づき付与する新株の引受権に関しては、この法律の施行後も、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-1 If a resolution under Article 280-19, paragraph (2) of the Former Commercial Code was adopted before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern, even after this Act comes into effect, the subscription rights for new shares granted on the basis of that resolution. machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行後に前項の新株の引受権が行使された場合においては、株式会社は、新株の発行に代えて、その有する自己の株式を当該新株の引受権を行使した者に移転することができる。この場合においては、会社法（平成十七年法律第八十六号）第二編第二章第八節の規定は、適用しない。 suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-2 If the subscription right for new shares in the preceding paragraph is exercised after this Act comes into effect, a stock company may, in lieu of the issue of new shares, transfer its own shares that it holds to the person who exercised that subscription right for new shares. In this case, the provisions of Part II, Chapter II, Section 8 of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005) do not apply. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-2: 前項 → 商法 附則第六条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6, paragraph (1)), suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第六条第二項（取締役又は使用人に対する新株の引受権の付与に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-6/par-2 - 商法 附則第七条第二項（転換社債、新株引受権付社債に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-2 - 商法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-149/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-149/art-4/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-20261105T141039-011, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05