# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八百条 (Article 800) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-800. 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: 第八百条 (Article 800) — address `art-800` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-800 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-800 - 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. --- ### 第八百条 art-800 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-800 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-800 **第一項** 船舶所有者が第七百九十八条の案の作成を怠ったときは、管海官庁は、船員の請求により、船舶所有者に対し、その案の作成を命ずることができる。 art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-800/par-1 If a shipowner neglects to prepare a proposal referred to in Article 798, the maritime authorities may order the shipowner to prepare a proposal, at the request of a mariner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 船舶所有者が前項の規定による命令に従わないときは、管海官庁は、自ら第七百九十七条第四項の規定による決定をすることができる。 art-800/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-800/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-800/par-2 If the shipowner disobeys an order under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the maritime authorities may personally make a determination referred to in Article 797, paragraph (4). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-800/par-1: 第七百九十八条 → 商法 第七百九十八条 (Article 798), art-798 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-798 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-798 - art-800/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第八百条第一項 (Article 800, paragraph (1)), art-800/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-800/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-800/par-1 - art-800/par-2: 第七百九十七条第四項 → 商法 第七百九十七条第四項 (Article 797, paragraph (4)), art-797/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-797/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-797/par-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第八百条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/art-800/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-800/par-2 --- ## 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