# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（株券に係る公示催告手続に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4141-44/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（株券に係る公示催告手続に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on Public Summons Procedures for Share Certificates caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4141-44/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行前に公示催告手続及ビ仲裁手続ニ関スル法律（明治二十三年法律第二十九号）の規定により申し立てられた株券の無効宣言のためにする公示催告手続及び当該手続に係る株券に関しては、この法律の施行後も、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-1 With regard to the public summons procedure for a declaration of invalidity of a share certificate, which was applied for before the enforcement of this Act pursuant to the provisions of the Act on Public Summons Procedures and Arbitration Procedures (Act No. 29 of 1890), and the share certificate pertaining to that procedure, the provisions then in force continue to govern even after the enforcement of this Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の株券については、新商法第二百三十条から第二百三十条ノ九ノ二までの規定は、適用しない。ただし、同項の公示催告手続が除権判決以外の事由により完結したときは、この限りでない。 suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 230 through Article 230-9-2 of the Amended Commercial Code do not apply to the share certificate set forth in the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that this does not apply where the public summons procedure set forth in that paragraph has been completed on grounds other than a nullification judgment. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-2: 前項 → 商法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第三条第二項（株券に係る公示催告手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-3/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-20261105T141039-012, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05