# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-20. 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（額面株式の株券の無効手続及び新株券の交付） — address `suppl-4131-79/art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（額面株式の株券の無効手続及び新株券の交付） — Procedures for Invalidating Share Certificates of Par Value Shares and Delivery of New Share Certificates caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4131-79/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-20 **第一項** 株式会社は、取締役会の決議により、この法律の施行前に発行されている一株の金額の記載のある株券を無効として新たな株券を発行することができる。 suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-1 A stock company may, by resolution of the board of directors, invalidate share certificates stating the amount per share that were issued before this Act comes into effect and issue new share certificates. machine translation, not official **第二項** 会社法第二百十九条及び第二百二十条の規定は前項の場合について、同法第九百七十六条第二号の規定はこの項において準用する同法第二百十九条第一項の規定に違反して公告若しくは通知を怠り又は不正の公告若しくは通知をした場合について、それぞれ準用する。 suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-2 Articles 219 and 220 of the Companies Act apply mutatis mutandis to the case of the preceding paragraph, and Article 976, item (ii) of that Act applies mutatis mutandis to the case where a person has neglected to give public notice or notification, or has given false public notice or notification, in violation of Article 219, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis in this paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-2: 前項 → 商法 附則第二十条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20, paragraph (1)), suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-1 - suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-2: この項 → 商法 附則第二十条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20, paragraph (2)), suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第二十条第二項（額面株式の株券の無効手続及び新株券の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-20/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch commercial-code-20261105T141039-011, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05