# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（成年に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4301-59/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-59/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（成年に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Age of Majority caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-59/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-59/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-2 **第一項** この法律による改正後の民法（以下「新法」という。）第四条の規定は、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）以後に十八歳に達する者について適用し、この法律の施行の際に二十歳以上の者の成年に達した時については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-1 The provisions of Article 4 of the Civil Code as amended by this Act (referred to as the "New Act" below) apply to a person who attains the age of 18 on or after the day of enforcement of this Act (referred to as the "Effective Date" below), and with regard to the time at which a person aged 20 or more at the time of the enforcement of this Act attained the age of majority, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行の際に十八歳以上二十歳未満の者（次項に規定する者を除く。）は、施行日において成年に達するものとする。 suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-2 A person aged 18 or more and less than 20 at the time of the enforcement of this Act (excluding a person prescribed in the following paragraph) is to attain the age of majority on the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第三項** 施行日前に婚姻をし、この法律による改正前の民法（次条第三項において「旧法」という。）第七百五十三条の規定により成年に達したものとみなされた者については、この法律の施行後も、なお従前の例により当該婚姻の時に成年に達したものとみなす。 suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-3 With regard to a person who married before the Effective Date and was deemed to have attained the age of majority pursuant to the provisions of Article 753 of the Civil Code before amendment by this Act (referred to as the "Former Act" in paragraph (3) of the following Article), the person continues, after the enforcement of this Act as well, to be deemed to have attained the age of majority at the time of that marriage, in accordance with the provisions then in force. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-1: 第四条 → 民法 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-4 - suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-2: 次項 → 民法 附則第二条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (3)), suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-3 - suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-3: 次条第三項 → 民法 附則第三条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (3)), suppl-4301-59/art-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-59/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-3/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第二条第二項（成年に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-2/par-2 - 民法 附則第四条第一項（縁組に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-59/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-4/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-20261011T170941-023, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11