# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-17. 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: 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17)（会社分割に伴う株式又は持分の消却及び株式の併合に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4131-79/art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条（会社分割に伴う株式又は持分の消却及び株式の併合に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on Cancellation of Shares or Shares in a Limited Company Accompanying a Company Split and on Share Consolidation caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4131-79/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-17 **第一項** この法律の施行前に分割計画書又は分割契約書が作成された会社の分割（分割計画書に旧商法第三百七十四条第二項第七号（旧有限会社法第六十三条ノ六第一項において準用する場合を含む。）に掲げる事項の記載がある新設分割又は分割契約書に旧商法第三百七十四条ノ十七第二項第七号（旧有限会社法第六十三条ノ九第一項において準用する場合を含む。）に掲げる事項の記載がある吸収分割に限る。）については、旧商法第二百十二条第一項本文（旧有限会社法第二十四条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第二項、第三百七十四条ノ七第一項（第三百七十四条ノ三十一第五項において準用する場合を含む。）、第三百七十四条ノ十五第二項並びに第三百七十四条ノ三十一第二項の規定並びにこれらの規定によって準用される旧商法第二百十四条第二項及び第二百十五条から第二百十七条までの規定は、なおその効力を有する。 suppl-4131-79/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-17/par-1 With regard to a company split for which a split plan or split agreement was prepared before this Act comes into effect (limited to an incorporation-type split in which the split plan states the matters listed in Article 374, paragraph (2), item (vii) of the Former Commercial Code (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis under Article 63-6, paragraph (1) of the Former Limited Liability Companies Act), or an absorption-type split in which the split agreement states the matters listed in Article 374-17, paragraph (2), item (vii) of the Former Commercial Code (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis under Article 63-9, paragraph (1) of the Former Limited Liability Companies Act)), the provisions of Article 212, paragraph (1), main clause (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis under Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Former Limited Liability Companies Act) and paragraph (2), Article 374-7, paragraph (1) (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis under Article 374-31, paragraph (5)), Article 374-15, paragraph (2), and Article 374-31, paragraph (2) of the Former Commercial Code, and the provisions of Article 214, paragraph (2) and Articles 215 through 217 of the Former Commercial Code as applied mutatis mutandis by those provisions, remain in force. 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