# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)
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- 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
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- Provision: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) — address `suppl-3231-148/art-6`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第六条
suppl-3231-148/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-6
**第一項** 新法施行の際、他の法令中に商法の規定を準用する旨定めた規定がある場合においては、その規定は、既に引受のあつた株式又は出資についてのみ新法施行後もなお旧法を準用するものとし、その限りにおいて旧法はなおその効力を有する。
suppl-3231-148/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-3231-148/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-3231-148/art-6/par-1
If, at the time the New Act comes into effect, there is a provision in other laws and regulations providing for the application mutatis mutandis of the provisions of the Commercial Code, that provision is to continue, even after the New Act comes into effect, to apply the Former Act mutatis mutandis only to shares or contributions for which subscription has already been made, and to that extent the Former Act remains in force.
machine translation, not official
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## 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-20261105T141039-002, translated 2026-11-05
- This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05