# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 51) - 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: 第五十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 51)（事務の区分に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4111-87/art-51` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-87/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-87/art-51 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条（事務の区分に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Classification of Affairs caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4111-87/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-87/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-87/art-51 **第一項** 第九十三条の規定による改正後の民法第八十三条ノ三第一項及び第九十四条の規定による改正後の民法施行法第二十三条第四項前段の各規定により都道府県が処理することとされる事務は、施行日から起算して二年間は、新地方自治法第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務とする。 suppl-4111-87/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-87/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-87/art-51/par-1 The affairs that are to be handled by prefectures under each of the provisions of Article 83-3, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code as amended by the provisions of Article 93 and the first sentence of Article 23, paragraph (4) of the Act for Enforcement of the Civil Code as amended by the provisions of Article 94 are, for two years counted from the effective date, to be Type 1 statutory entrusted affairs prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the new Local Autonomy Act. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第百六十条第一項（処分、申請等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-87/art-160/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-87/art-160/par-1 - 民法 附則第百六十四条第二項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4111-87/art-164/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4111-87/art-164/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 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