# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

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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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（転換社債、新株引受権付社債に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4131-128/art-7`
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### 第七条（転換社債、新株引受権付社債に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on Convertible Bonds and Bonds with Subscription Rights to New Shares
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4131-128/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前に転換社債（旧商法第三百四十一条ノ二第一項の規定に基づき発行する社債をいう。以下同じ。）又は新株引受権付社債（旧商法第三百四十一条ノ八第一項の規定に基づき発行する社債をいう。以下同じ。）の発行の決議があった場合においては、当該決議に基づき発行する転換社債又は新株引受権付社債に関しては、この法律の施行後も、なお従前の例による。この法律の施行前に旧商法第三百四十一条ノ二第三項若しくは第三百四十一条ノ二ノ六第一項ただし書又は第三百四十一条ノ八第五項若しくは第三百四十一条ノ十一ノ二第一項ただし書の決議があった場合においては、当該決議に基づき発行する転換社債又は新株引受権付社債についても、同様とする。
<sup>suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-1</sup>
If, before this Act comes into effect, a resolution has been adopted for the issue of convertible bonds (meaning bonds issued under Article 341-2, paragraph (1) of the Former Commercial Code; the same applies hereinafter) or bonds with subscription rights to new shares (meaning bonds issued under Article 341-8, paragraph (1) of the Former Commercial Code; the same applies hereinafter), the provisions then in force continue to govern, even after this Act comes into effect, the convertible bonds or bonds with subscription rights to new shares issued on the basis of that resolution. The same applies to convertible bonds or bonds with subscription rights to new shares issued on the basis of a resolution, if a resolution under Article 341-2, paragraph (3), the proviso to Article 341-2-6, paragraph (1), Article 341-8, paragraph (5), or the proviso to Article 341-11-2, paragraph (1) of the Former Commercial Code was adopted before this Act comes into effect.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前条第二項の規定は、この法律の施行後に前項の転換社債の転換の請求があった場合又は同項の新株引受権付社債に付された新株の引受権の行使があった場合に準用する。
<sup>suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-2 · 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</sup>
Paragraph (2) of the preceding Article applies mutatis mutandis to the case where a request for conversion of the convertible bonds in the preceding paragraph is made, or the subscription right for new shares attached to the bonds with subscription rights to new shares in that paragraph is exercised, after this Act comes into effect.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-2: 前条第二項 → 商法 附則第六条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6, paragraph (2)), 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
- suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-2: 前項 → 商法 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-7/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 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

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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-20261105T141039-011, translated 2026-11-05
- This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05
