# 民法 / Civil Code — 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) — address `suppl-3221-222/art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条 suppl-3221-222/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-19 **第一項** 新法施行の際現に旧法第九百二条の規定によつて父母の一方が後見人であるとき、又は旧法第九百四条の規定によつて選任された後見人があるときは、その後見人は、新法施行のため、当然にはその地位を失うことはない。但し、新法施行によつて後見が終了し、又は新法による法定後見人があるときは、当然その地位を失う。 suppl-3221-222/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-19/par-1 If, at the time the New Act comes into effect, one parent is in fact the guardian under the provisions of Article 902 of the Former Act, or there is a guardian appointed under the provisions of Article 904 of the Former Act, that guardian does not automatically lose that position by reason of the New Act coming into effect; provided, however, that if the guardianship ends upon the New Act coming into effect, or if there is a statutory guardian under the New Act, the guardian automatically loses that position. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第二十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-20/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 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-20261011T170941-012, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11