# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（総会招集請求権等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4141-44/art-5` - 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-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（総会招集請求権等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on the Right to Request Convocation of a General Meeting, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4141-44/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-5 **第一項** この法律の施行前に旧商法第二百三十七条第三項（旧商法第二百二十二条第八項、第三百二十条第五項、第三百四十五条第三項（旧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並びに旧有限会社法第三十七条第三項及び第七十五条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の請求をした株主、社債権者又は社員が行う株主総会、ある種類の株主の総会、社債権者集会又は社員総会の招集に関しては、この法律の施行後も、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4141-44/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4141-44/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4141-44/art-5/par-1 With regard to the convocation of a shareholders meeting, a general meeting of shareholders of a certain class, a meeting of bondholders or a general meeting of members by a shareholder, bondholder or member who made the request under Article 237, paragraph (3) of the Former Commercial Code (including as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 222, paragraph (8), Article 320, paragraph (5), Article 345, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 346) and Article 430, paragraph (2) of the Former Commercial Code, and Article 37, paragraph (3) and Article 75, paragraph (2) of the Former Limited Liability Companies Act) before the enforcement of this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern even after the enforcement of this Act. 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