# 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)（第一条の規定の施行に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5031-37/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5031-37/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-37/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（第一条の規定の施行に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Enforcement of the Provisions of Article 1 caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-37/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5031-37/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-37/art-4 **第一項** 第一条の規定による改正後の民法（次項において「新民法」という。）第四百八十六条第二項の規定は、施行日以後にされる同項の規定による受取証書の内容を記録した電磁的記録の提供の請求について適用する。 suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 486, paragraph (2) of the Civil Code as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (referred to as the "New Civil Code" in the following paragraph) apply to a request, made on or after the Effective Date, for the provision of an electronic or magnetic record that records the content of a receipt under the provisions of that paragraph. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新民法第九百八十四条後段の規定は、施行日以後にされる同条前段の規定による公正証書遺言又は秘密証書遺言について適用し、施行日前にされた第一条の規定による改正前の民法第九百八十四条の規定による公正証書遺言又は秘密証書遺言については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-2 The provisions of the second sentence of Article 984 of the New Civil Code apply to a notarial will or sealed and notarized will made on or after the Effective Date under the provisions of the first sentence of that Article, and with regard to a notarial will or sealed and notarized will made before the Effective Date under the provisions of Article 984 of the Civil Code before amendment by the provisions of Article 1, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-1: 次項 → 民法 附則第四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)), suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-2 - suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-1: 第四百八十六条第二項 → 民法 第四百八十六条第二項 (Article 486, paragraph (2)), art-486/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-486/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-486/par-2 - suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-2: 新民法第九百八十四条 → 民法 第九百八十四条 (Article 984), art-984 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-984 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-984 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第四条第一項（第一条の規定の施行に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5031-37/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5031-37/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-20261011T170941-026, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11