# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-16. 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（船舶先取特権に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4301-29/art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（船舶先取特権に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on Statutory Liens on a Ship caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-29/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-16 **第一項** 施行日前に船舶（製造中の船舶を含む。）、その属具及び受領していない運送賃に関し国税徴収法（昭和三十四年法律第百四十七号）第二条第十二号に規定する強制換価手続、再生手続、更生手続又は特別清算手続が開始された場合における旧商法第八百四十二条の先取特権又は第二条の規定による改正前の国際海上物品運送法第十九条第一項の先取特権の効力及び順位については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4301-29/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-16/par-1 With regard to the effect and priority of a statutory lien under Article 842 of the Former Commercial Code or a statutory lien under Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Act on Carriage of Goods by Sea prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 2, in the case where a compulsory liquidation procedure prescribed in Article 2, item (xii) of the National Tax Collection Act (Act No. 147 of 1959), rehabilitation proceedings, reorganization proceedings or special liquidation proceedings were commenced before the Effective Date with regard to a ship (including a ship under construction), its appurtenances and freight charges not yet received, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-29/art-16/par-1: 国税徴収法（昭和三十四年法律第百四十七号）第二条第十二号 → 国税徴収法 第二条第一項第十二号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xii)), art-2/par-1/item-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-tax-collection-act/art-2/par-1/item-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000147/art-2/par-1/item-12 --- ## 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-20261105T141039-016, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05