# 民法 / Civil Code — 第九百六十九条の二 (Article 969-2) - 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: 第九百六十九条の二 (Article 969-2)（公正証書遺言の方式の特則） — address `art-969-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-969-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-969-2 - 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. --- ### 第九百六十九条の二（公正証書遺言の方式の特則） — (Special Provisions on the Formalities of a Notarial Will) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-969-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-969-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-969-2 **第一項** 口がきけない者が公正証書によって遺言をする場合には、遺言者は、公証人及び証人の前で、遺言の趣旨を通訳人の通訳により申述し、又は自書して、前条第一項第二号の口授に代えなければならない。 art-969-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-969-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-969-2/par-1 In order for a testator who cannot speak to make a will in the form of a notarial instrument, the testator must give a statement as to the tenor of the will through an interpreter, or in the testator's own hand, before the notary and witnesses, in lieu of the oral instructions referred to in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 公証人は、前項に定める方式に従って公正証書を作ったときは、その旨をその証書に記載し、又は記録しなければならない。 art-969-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-969-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-969-2/par-2 If a notarial instrument is prepared according to the formalities prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the notary must state or record that fact in the instrument. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-969-2/par-1: 前条第一項第二号 → 民法 第九百六十九条第一項第二号 (Article 969, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-969/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-969/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-969/par-1/item-2 - art-969-2/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第九百六十九条の二第一項 (Article 969-2, paragraph (1)), art-969-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-969-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-969-2/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第九百六十九条の二第二項（公正証書遺言の方式の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-969-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-969-2/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 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-007, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11