# 民法 / Civil Code — 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19)（検討） — address `suppl-5061-33/art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5061-33/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-19 **第一項** 政府は、施行日までに、父母が協議上の離婚をする場合における新民法第八百十九条第一項の規定による親権者の定めが父母の双方の真意に出たものであることを確認するための措置について検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な法制上の措置その他の措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5061-33/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-19/par-1 By the Effective Date, the government is to study measures for confirming that the determination of the person with parental authority pursuant to the provisions of Article 819, paragraph (1) of the New Civil Code, in the case where the parents divorce by agreement, reflects the genuine intention of both parents, and to take necessary legislative and other measures based on the results. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、この法律の施行後五年を目途として、改正後の各法律の施行の状況等を勘案し、父母の離婚後の子の養育に係る制度及び支援施策の在り方等について検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5061-33/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-19/par-2 Approximately five years after this Act comes into effect, the government is to study the state of the system and support measures concerning the upbringing of children after the divorce of their parents, etc., taking into consideration the status of enforcement, etc. of the respective Acts as amended, and if it finds it necessary, is to take necessary measures based on the results. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5061-33/art-19/par-1: 新民法第八百十九条第一項 → 民法 第八百十九条第一項 (Article 819, paragraph (1)), art-819/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-819/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-819/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-1/par-1 - 民法 附則第十七条第一項（啓発活動） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-17/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-20261011T170941-028, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11