# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六条 (Article 6) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（未成年者の営業の許可） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（未成年者の営業の許可） — (Permission for Minors to Conduct Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-6 **第一項** 一種又は数種の営業を許された未成年者は、その営業に関しては、成年者と同一の行為能力を有する。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-6/par-1 A minor who is permitted to conduct one or multiple types of business has the same capacity to act as an adult as far as that business is concerned. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、未成年者がその営業に堪えることができない事由があるときは、その法定代理人は、第四編（親族）の規定に従い、その許可を取り消し、又はこれを制限することができる。 art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-6/par-2 In a case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if there are grounds that make the minor unable to sustain that business, the legal representative may revoke or limit the permission therefor in accordance with the provisions of Part IV (Relatives). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-6/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-6/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第六条第二項（未成年者の営業の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-6/par-2 - 民法 第八百二十三条第二項（職業の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-823/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-823/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11