# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（端株券に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4131-79/art-8` - 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-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八条（端株券に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on Fractional Share Certificates caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4131-79/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8 **第一項** この法律の施行前に旧商法第二百三十条ノ八ノ二第一項の規定により、定款を変更して、端株券を発行しない旨の定めをした株式会社の端株券に関しては、平成十五年三月三十一日までは、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 With regard to the fractional share certificates of a stock company that, before this Act comes into effect, amended its articles of incorporation pursuant to Article 230-8-2, paragraph (1) of the Former Commercial Code and provided that fractional share certificates would not be issued, the provisions then in force continue to govern until March 31, 2003. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合については、旧商法第三百五十一条第一項中「一定ノ期間内」とあるのは、「平成十五年三月三十一日以前ノ日ヲ終期トスル一定ノ期間内」とし、この法律の施行前に同項の規定により平成十五年四月一日以後の日を同項の一定の期間の終期としてされた公告については、平成十五年三月三十一日をその一定の期間の終期としてされたものとみなす。 suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-2 In the case where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the phrase "within a certain period" in Article 351, paragraph (1) of the Former Commercial Code is deemed to be replaced with "within a certain period ending on a day on or before March 31, 2003", and a public notice made before this Act comes into effect pursuant to that paragraph with a day on or after April 1, 2003 as the end of the certain period in that paragraph is deemed to have been made with March 31, 2003 as the end of that certain period. machine translation, not official **第三項** 端株券（第一項の株式会社が発行しているものを除く。以下この項から第七項までにおいて同じ。）であって、平成十五年三月三十一日までに次項ただし書の規定による提出がなかったものについては、同日限り無効とする。ただし、株式会社は、取締役会の決議により、その発行している端株券を、同日以前の一定の日において無効とすることができる。 suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 Fractional share certificates (excluding those issued by a stock company set forth in paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph through paragraph (7)) for which the submission under the proviso to the following paragraph has not been made by March 31, 2003 become invalid at the end of that day; provided, however, that a stock company may, by resolution of the board of directors, invalidate the fractional share certificates it has issued as of a certain date on or before that day. machine translation, not official **第四項** この法律の施行前に発行されている端株券に関しては、平成十五年三月三十一日（前項ただし書の決議をした場合にあっては、その決議により定められた一定の日）までは、なお従前の例による。ただし、端株券を有する者がその端株券を会社に提出して新商法第二百二十条ノ二第一項第一号、第二号及び第四号に掲げる事項を端株原簿に記載すべき旨の請求をすること又は新商法第二百二十条ノ六第一項の規定による請求をすることを妨げない。 suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 With regard to fractional share certificates issued prior to the enforcement of this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern until March 31, 2003 (or, if a resolution under the proviso to the preceding paragraph has been made, the certain date determined by that resolution); provided, however, that this does not preclude a person who holds a fractional share certificate from submitting it to the company and requesting that the matters set forth in Article 220-2, paragraph (1), items (i), (ii) and (iv) of the Amended Commercial Code be entered in the fractional share register, or from making a request under Article 220-6, paragraph (1) of the Amended Commercial Code. machine translation, not official **第五項** 第三項ただし書の決議をしたときは、株式会社は、同項ただし書の一定の日までに端株券を当該株式会社に提出すべき旨及びその日までに提出されなかった端株券はその日において無効となる旨をその日の一月前に公告しなければならない。 suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 If a resolution under the proviso to paragraph (3) has been made, the stock company must give public notice, one month prior to the certain date referred to in the proviso to that paragraph, to the effect that fractional share certificates are to be submitted to that stock company by that date and that fractional share certificates not submitted by that date will become invalid on that date. machine translation, not official **第六項** 第四項ただし書及び前項の場合において、株式会社は、端株券が提出されたときは、新商法第二百二十条ノ二第一項第一号、第二号及び第四号に掲げる事項を端株原簿に記載しなければならない。 suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-6 In the cases referred to in the proviso to paragraph (4) and the preceding paragraph, when a fractional share certificate is submitted, the stock company must enter the matters set forth in Article 220-2, paragraph (1), items (i), (ii) and (iv) of the Amended Commercial Code in the fractional share register. machine translation, not official **第七項** 第四項ただし書及び第五項の場合において端株券を提出することができない者がいるときは、株式会社は、その者の請求により、利害関係人に対し異議があれば一定の期間内に述べるべき旨を公告し、その期間経過後において前項の記載をすることができる。 suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-7 In the cases referred to in the proviso to paragraph (4) and paragraph (5), if there is a person who is unable to submit a fractional share certificate, the stock company may, at the request of that person, give public notice to interested persons to the effect that any objection is to be stated within a certain period, and make the entry referred to in the preceding paragraph after the expiration of that period. machine translation, not official **第八項** この法律の施行前に端株券を発行している株式会社は、第一項から第三項までの規定により提出されなかった端株券が無効とされる日後でなければ、新商法第二百二十条ノ二第二項及び第二百二十一条第一項の規定による定款の定めをしてはならない。 suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-8 A stock company that has issued fractional share certificates prior to the enforcement of this Act must not make the provisions of the articles of incorporation under Article 220-2, paragraph (2) and Article 221, paragraph (1) of the Amended Commercial Code until after the day on which fractional share certificates not submitted pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) are made invalid. machine translation, not official **第九項** 新商法第四百九十八条第一項第二号の規定は第五項の規定に違反して公告を怠り又は不正の公告をした場合について、新商法第二百十六条第一項ただし書及び第二項の規定は第七項の公告をする場合について、それぞれ準用する。 suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-9 The provisions of Article 498, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Amended Commercial Code apply mutatis mutandis to the case where a person fails to give public notice in violation of paragraph (5) or gives false public notice, and the provisions of the proviso to Article 216, paragraph (1) and Article 216, paragraph (2) of the Amended Commercial Code apply mutatis mutandis to the case where public notice under paragraph (7) is given, respectively. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-2: 前項 → 商法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3: 第一項 → 商法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3: この項 → 商法 附則第八条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (3)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3: 第七項 → 商法 附則第八条第七項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (7)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-7 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3: 次項 → 商法 附則第八条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (4)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4: 前項 → 商法 附則第八条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (3)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5: 第三項 → 商法 附則第八条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (3)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-6: 第四項 → 商法 附則第八条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (4)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-6: 前項 → 商法 附則第八条第五項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (5)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-7: 第四項 → 商法 附則第八条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (4)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-4 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-7: 第五項 → 商法 附則第八条第五項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (5)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-7: 前項 → 商法 附則第八条第六項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (6)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-6 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-8: 第一項から第三項まで → 商法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-1 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-8: 第一項から第三項まで → 商法 附則第八条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (2)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-2 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-8: 第一項から第三項まで → 商法 附則第八条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (3)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-3 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-9: 第五項 → 商法 附則第八条第五項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (5)), suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/commercial-code/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-5 - suppl-4131-79/art-8/par-9: 第七項 → 商法 附則第八条第七項 (Supplementary 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