# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（縁組の取消しに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3621-101/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3621-101/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3621-101/art-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. --- ### 第三条（縁組の取消しに関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Annulment of an Adoption caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3621-101/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3621-101/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3621-101/art-3 **第一項** 新法第八百六条の二及び第八百六条の三の規定は、この法律の施行前にした縁組には適用しない。 suppl-3621-101/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3621-101/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3621-101/art-3/par-1 The provisions of Articles 806-2 and 806-3 of the New Act do not apply to an adoption made before this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3621-101/art-3/par-1: 新法第八百六条の二 → 民法 第八百六条の二 (Article 806-2), art-806-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-806-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-806-2 - suppl-3621-101/art-3/par-1: 第八百六条の三 → 民法 第八百六条の三 (Article 806-3), art-806-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-806-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-806-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第二条第一項（民法の一部改正に伴う経過措置の原則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-3621-101/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3621-101/art-2/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-20261011T170941-015, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11