# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-149/art-2. 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（社外取締役の登記に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4131-149/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-149/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-149/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（社外取締役の登記に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on Registration of Outside Directors caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4131-149/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-149/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-149/art-2 **第一項** 株式会社は、この法律の施行の際現に在任する取締役がこの法律による改正後の商法（以下「新商法」という。）第百八十八条第二項第七号ノ二に規定する社外取締役である場合には、この法律の施行の日を含む任期中に限り、当該取締役が社外取締役である旨の登記をすることを要しない。ただし、定款を変更して新商法第二百六十六条第十九項の契約をすることができる旨の定めを設けたときは、この限りでない。 suppl-4131-149/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-149/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-149/art-2/par-1 If a director actually in office at the time this Act comes into effect is an outside director prescribed in Article 188, paragraph (2), item (vii)-2 of the Commercial Code as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Amended Commercial Code"), a stock company is not required to effect the registration to the effect that the director is an outside director, only during the term of office that includes the day this Act comes into effect; provided, however, that this does not apply when the company has amended its articles of incorporation to include a provision that a contract under Article 266, paragraph (19) of the Amended Commercial Code may be made. machine translation, not official --- ## 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