# 民法 / Civil Code — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3511-66` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3511-66 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3511-66 - 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. --- ## 附　則 昭和五一年六月一五日法律第六六号 suppl-3511-66 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3511-66 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3511-66 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から施行する。 suppl-3511-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3511-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3511-66/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行前三月以内に離婚し、又は婚姻が取り消された場合における第一条の規定による改正後の民法第七百六十七条第二項（同法第七百四十九条及び第七百七十一条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定の適用については、同項中「離婚の日から三箇月以内」とあるのは、「民法等の一部を改正する法律（昭和五十一年法律第六十六号）の施行の日から三箇月以内」とする。 suppl-3511-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3511-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3511-66/par-2 With respect to the application of Article 767, paragraph (2) of the Civil Code as amended pursuant to the provisions of Article 1 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Articles 749 and 771 of the Civil Code) in the case where a divorce took place or a marriage was cancelled within three months before this Act comes into effect, the phrase "within three months of the day of divorce" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "within three months of the date of enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 66 of 1976)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3511-66/par-2: 民法第七百六十七条第二項 → 民法 第七百六十七条第二項 (Article 767, paragraph (2)), art-767/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-767/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-767/par-2 - suppl-3511-66/par-2: 同法第七百四十九条 → 民法 第七百四十九条 (Article 749), art-749 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-749 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-749 - suppl-3511-66/par-2: 第七百七十一条 → 民法 第七百七十一条 (Article 771), art-771 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-771 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-771 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-014, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11