# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百九十六条 (Article 796) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-796. 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: 第七百九十六条 (Article 796)（救助料の割合等） — address `art-796` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-796 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-796 - 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. --- ### 第七百九十六条（救助料の割合等） — (Proportion of Salvage Charges) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-796 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-796 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-796 **第一項** 数人が共同して救助した場合において、各救助者に支払うべき救助料の割合については、第七百九十三条の規定を準用する。 art-796/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-796/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-796/par-1 If two or more persons carry out a salvage, the provisions of Article 793 apply mutatis mutandis to the proportion of the salvage charges to be paid to each salvor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第七百九十二条第一項に規定する場合において、人命の救助に従事した者があるときは、その者も、前項の規定に従って救助料の支払を受けることができる。 art-796/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-796/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-796/par-2 In the case prescribed in Article 792, paragraph (1), a person that has worked to save people's lives may also be paid salvage charges pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-796/par-1: 第七百九十三条 → 商法 第七百九十三条 (Article 793), art-793 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-793 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-793 - art-796/par-2: 第七百九十二条第一項 → 商法 第七百九十二条第一項 (Article 792, paragraph (1)), art-792/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-792/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-792/par-1 - art-796/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第七百九十六条第一項 (Article 796, paragraph (1)), art-796/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-796/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-796/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百九十六条第二項（救助料の割合等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-796/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-796/par-2 - 商法 第七百九十七条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-797/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-797/par-4 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05