# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百六十条の三 (Article 860-3) - 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: 第八百六十条の三 (Article 860-3) — address `art-860-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-3 - 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. --- ### 第八百六十条の三 art-860-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-3 **第一項** 成年後見人は、成年被後見人に宛てた郵便物等を受け取ったときは、これを開いて見ることができる。 art-860-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-3/par-1 When an adult guardian receives postal items, etc. addressed to the adult ward, the adult guardian may open and view them. machine translation, not official **第二項** 成年後見人は、その受け取った前項の郵便物等で成年後見人の事務に関しないものは、速やかに成年被後見人に交付しなければならない。 art-860-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-3/par-2 An adult guardian must promptly deliver to the adult ward those of the postal items, etc. referred to in the preceding paragraph that the adult guardian has received which do not relate to the adult guardian's duties. machine translation, not official **第三項** 成年被後見人は、成年後見人に対し、成年後見人が受け取った第一項の郵便物等（前項の規定により成年被後見人に交付されたものを除く。）の閲覧を求めることができる。 art-860-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-3/par-3 An adult ward may request the adult guardian to allow inspection of the postal items, etc. referred to in paragraph (1) that the adult guardian has received (excluding those delivered to the adult ward under the preceding paragraph). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-860-3/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第八百六十条の三第一項 (Article 860-3, paragraph (1)), art-860-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-3/par-1 - art-860-3/par-3: 第一項 → 民法 第八百六十条の三第一項 (Article 860-3, paragraph (1)), art-860-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-3/par-1 - art-860-3/par-3: 前項 → 民法 第八百六十条の三第二項 (Article 860-3, paragraph (2)), art-860-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-3/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百六十条の二第一項（成年後見人による郵便物等の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-2/par-1 - 民法 第八百六十条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-3/par-2 - 民法 第八百六十条の三第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-860-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-860-3/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-005, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11