# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百四十五条 (Article 645) - 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: 第六百四十五条 (Article 645)（受任者による報告） — address `art-645` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-645 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-645 - 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. --- ### 第六百四十五条（受任者による報告） — (Reports by Mandatary) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-645 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-645 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-645 **第一項** 受任者は、委任者の請求があるときは、いつでも委任事務の処理の状況を報告し、委任が終了した後は、遅滞なくその経過及び結果を報告しなければならない。 art-645/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-645/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-645/par-1 If a mandatary is requested by the mandator, the mandatary must report the current status of the administration of the mandated business at any time, and must report the process and results without delay upon termination of the mandate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第六百七十一条第一項（委任の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-671/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-671/par-1 - 民法 第七百一条第一項（委任の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-701/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-701/par-1 - 民法 第九百二十六条第二項（限定承認者による管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-926/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-926/par-2 - 民法 第九百四十条第二項（相続の放棄をした者による管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-940/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-940/par-2 - 民法 第九百四十四条第二項（財産分離の請求後の相続人による管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-944/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-944/par-2 - 民法 第千十二条第三項（遺言執行者の権利義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-1012/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1012/par-3 --- ## 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