# 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)（親権及び管理権の喪失の宣告に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4231-61/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第三条（親権及び管理権の喪失の宣告に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Declarations of Loss of Parental Authority and of the Right to Manage the Child's Property
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4231-61/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4231-61/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4231-61/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  旧法第八百三十四条の規定による親権の喪失の宣告は新法第八百三十四条本文の規定による親権喪失の審判と、当該親権の喪失の宣告を受けた父又は母は当該親権喪失の審判を受けた父又は母とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-1</sup>
A declaration of loss of parental authority under Article 834 of the Former Act is deemed to be a ruling affirming the loss of parental authority under the main clause of Article 834 of the New Act, and a father or mother who received that declaration of loss of parental authority is deemed to be a father or mother who received that ruling affirming the loss of parental authority.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  旧法第八百三十五条（破産法（平成十六年法律第七十五号）第六十一条第一項において準用する場合を含む。次項において同じ。）の規定による管理権の喪失の宣告は新法第八百三十五条（破産法第六十一条第一項において準用する場合を含む。次項において同じ。）の規定による管理権喪失の審判と、当該管理権の喪失の宣告を受けた父又は母は当該管理権喪失の審判を受けた父又は母とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-2</sup>
A declaration of loss of the right to manage the child's property under Article 835 of the Former Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61, paragraph (1) of the Bankruptcy Act (Act No. 75 of 2004); the same applies in the following paragraph) is deemed to be a ruling affirming the loss of the right to manage the child's property under Article 835 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 61, paragraph (1) of the Bankruptcy Act; the same applies in the following paragraph), and a father or mother who received that declaration of loss of the right to manage the child's property is deemed to be a father or mother who received that ruling affirming the loss of the right to manage the child's property.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第三項**  旧法第八百三十四条又は第八百三十五条の規定による親権又は管理権の喪失の宣告の請求（この法律の施行前に当該請求に係る審判が確定したものを除く。）は、新法第八百三十四条本文又は第八百三十五条の規定による親権喪失又は管理権喪失の審判の請求とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-3</sup>
A request for a declaration of loss of parental authority or of the right to manage the child's property under Article 834 or 835 of the Former Act (excluding one for which the ruling pertaining to that request became final before this Act comes into effect) is deemed to be a request for a ruling affirming the loss of parental authority or a ruling affirming the loss of the right to manage the child's property under the main clause of Article 834 or Article 835 of the New Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-1: 新法第八百三十四条 → 民法 第八百三十四条 (Article 834), art-834 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-834 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-834
- suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-2: 破産法（平成十六年法律第七十五号）第六十一条第一項 → e-Gov law 416AC0000000075, 第六十一条第一項 (Article 61, paragraph (1)), art-61/par-1 — not held in this collection
- suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-2: 次項 → 民法 附則第三条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (3)), suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-3
- suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-2: 新法第八百三十五条 → 民法 第八百三十五条 (Article 835), art-835 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-835 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-835
- suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-3: 新法第八百三十四条 → 民法 第八百三十四条 (Article 834), art-834 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-834 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-834
- suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-3: 第八百三十五条 → 民法 第八百三十五条 (Article 835), art-835 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-835 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-835

## Cited by

2 provisions cite 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-4231-61/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4231-61/art-2/par-1
- 民法 附則第三条第二項（親権及び管理権の喪失の宣告に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4231-61/art-3/par-2

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## 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-20261011T170941-019, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11
