# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（縁組に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4301-59/art-4` - 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-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（縁組に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Adoption caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-59/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-4301-59/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-59/art-4 **第一項** 施行日前にした縁組の取消し（養親となる者が成年に達していないことを理由とするものに限る。）については、新法第四条、第七百九十二条及び第八百四条の規定並びに附則第二条第二項の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4301-59/art-4/par-1 · 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 With regard to the annulment of an adoption made before the Effective Date (limited to one on the ground that the person who is to be the adoptive parent has not attained the age of majority), notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 4, 792, and 804 of the New Act and the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-59/art-4/par-1: 新法第四条 → 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-4/par-1: 第七百九十二条 → 民法 第七百九十二条 (Article 792), art-792 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-792 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-792 - suppl-4301-59/art-4/par-1: 第八百四条 → 民法 第八百四条 (Article 804), art-804 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-804 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-804 - suppl-4301-59/art-4/par-1: 附則第二条第二項 → 民法 附則第二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)), 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 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-024, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11