# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（株主提案権等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4141-44/art-4` - 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-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（株主提案権等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on the Right of Shareholders to Make Proposals, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4141-44/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-4 **第一項** 会日より八週間前の日がこの法律の施行の日前である株主総会又はある種類の株主の総会に関する新商法第二百三十二条ノ二第一項及び第二項（新商法第二百二十二条第十項、第三百四十五条第三項（新商法第三百四十六条において準用する場合を含む。）及び第四百三十条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定の適用については、これらの規定中「八週間」とあるのは、「六週間」とする。 suppl-4141-44/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-4/par-1 With regard to the application of Article 232-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Amended Commercial Code (including as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 222, paragraph (10), Article 345, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 346) and Article 430, paragraph (2) of the Amended Commercial Code) to a shareholders meeting or a general meeting of shareholders of a certain class for which the day eight weeks before the meeting date is prior to the date of enforcement of this Act, the phrase "eight weeks" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "six weeks". 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-20261105T141039-012, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05