# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-2. 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（商法の一部改正に伴う経過措置の原則） — address `suppl-4301-29/art-2` - 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-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（商法の一部改正に伴う経過措置の原則） — Basic Principle of Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Commercial Code caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-29/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-2 **第一項** 第一条の規定による改正後の商法（以下「新商法」という。）の規定は、この附則に特別の定めがある場合を除き、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）前に生じた事項にも適用する。ただし、同条の規定による改正前の商法（以下「旧商法」という。）の規定によって生じた効力を妨げない。 suppl-4301-29/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4301-29/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4301-29/art-2/par-1 The provisions of the Commercial Code after the amendment under the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Amended Commercial Code") also apply to matters that arose before the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), except as otherwise specially provided for in these Supplementary Provisions; provided, however, that this does not preclude the effect arising under the provisions of the Commercial Code before the amendment under the provisions of that Article (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Commercial Code"). 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-20261105T141039-015, translated 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch commercial-code-20261105T141039-015, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05