# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百十二条 (Article 812) - 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: 第八百十二条 (Article 812)（婚姻の規定の準用） — address `art-812` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-812 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-812 - 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. --- ### 第八百十二条（婚姻の規定の準用） — (Mutatis Mutandis Application of Marriage Provisions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-812 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-812 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-812 **第一項** 第七百三十八条、第七百三十九条及び第七百四十七条の規定は、協議上の離縁について準用する。この場合において、同条第二項中「三箇月」とあるのは、「六箇月」と読み替えるものとする。 art-812/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-812/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-812/par-1 The provisions of Article 738, Article 739, and Article 747 apply mutatis mutandis to the dissolution of an adoptive relationship. In this case, the term "three months" in Article 747, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "six months". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-812/par-1: 第七百三十八条 → 民法 第七百三十八条 (Article 738), art-738 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-738 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-738 - art-812/par-1: 第七百三十九条 → 民法 第七百三十九条 (Article 739), art-739 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-739 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-739 - art-812/par-1: 第七百四十七条 → 民法 第七百四十七条 (Article 747), art-747 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-747 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-747 - art-812/par-1: 同条第二項 → 民法 第七百四十七条第二項 (Article 747, paragraph (2)), art-747/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-747/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-747/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百十三条第一項（離縁の届出の受理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-813/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-813/par-1 --- ## 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 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), 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