# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4161-76/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（商法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4161-76/art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4161-76/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4161-76/art-8 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八条（商法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Commercial Code caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4161-76/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4161-76/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4161-76/art-8 **第一項** 施行日前にされた第九条の規定による改正前の商法（次項において「旧商法」という。）第三百八十一条第一項の規定による整理開始の申立て又は施行日前に職権でされた同条第二項の規定による整理開始の命令に係る会社の整理に関する事件については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-1 With regard to a case concerning the arrangement of a company that relates to an application for the commencement of arrangement under Article 381, paragraph (1) of the Commercial Code prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 9 (referred to as the "Former Commercial Code" in the following paragraph), made before the Effective Date, or an order for the commencement of arrangement under paragraph (2) of that Article, made ex officio before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 施行日前にされた旧商法第四百三十一条の規定による特別清算開始の申立て又は施行日前に職権でされた同条第三項において準用する旧商法第三百八十一条第二項の規定による特別清算開始の命令に係る特別清算に関する事件については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-2 With regard to a case concerning special liquidation that relates to an application for the commencement of special liquidation under Article 431 of the Former Commercial Code, made before the Effective Date, or an order for the commencement of special liquidation under Article 381, paragraph (2) of the Former Commercial Code as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 431, paragraph (3) of the Former Commercial Code, made ex officio before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第三項** 施行日前に債権者につき会社に対する債務負担の原因が生じた場合における債権者による相殺の禁止及び施行日前に債務者に対して債務を負担する者につき会社に対する債権の取得の原因が生じた場合における当該者による相殺の禁止については、第九条の規定による改正後の商法第四百三条第一項又は第四百五十六条第一項において準用する新破産法第七十一条及び第七十二条の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-3 With regard to the prohibition of set-off by an obligee in the case where the cause of the assumption of an obligation to a company arose before the Effective Date with respect to the obligee, and the prohibition of set-off by a person who owes an obligation to an obligor in the case where the cause of the acquisition of a claim against a company arose before the Effective Date with respect to that person, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 71 and 72 of the new Bankruptcy Act as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 403, paragraph (1) or Article 456, paragraph (1) of the Commercial Code after the amendment by the provisions of Article 9. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-1: 次項 → 商法 附則第八条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (2)), suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-2 - suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-3: 新破産法第七十一条 → 破産法 第七十一条 (Article 71), art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-71 - suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-3: 第七十二条 → 破産法 第七十二条 (Article 72), art-72 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-72 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4161-76/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4161-76/art-1/par-1 - 商法 附則第八条第一項（商法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4161-76/art-8/par-1 --- ## 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-20261105T141039-013, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05