# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（親権者の変更の請求に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5061-33/art-6` - 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-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（親権者の変更の請求に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Requests to Change the Person with Parental Authority caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5061-33/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-6 **第一項** 施行日前に旧民法第八百十九条第六項（旧民法第七百四十九条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定によりされた親権者の変更の請求（施行日前に当該請求に係る審判が確定したものを除く。）は、施行日以後は、新民法第八百十九条第六項（新民法第七百四十九条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定によりされた親権者の変更の請求とみなす。 suppl-5061-33/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-6/par-1 A request to change the person with parental authority made before the Effective Date pursuant to the provisions of Article 819, paragraph (6) of the Former Civil Code (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 749 of the Former Civil Code) (excluding a request for which the adjudication pertaining to that request became final and binding before the Effective Date) is deemed, on or after the Effective Date, to be a request to change the person with parental authority made pursuant to the provisions of Article 819, paragraph (6) of the New Civil Code (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 749 of the New Civil Code). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5061-33/art-6/par-1: 新民法第八百十九条第六項 → 民法 第八百十九条第六項 (Article 819, paragraph (6)), art-819/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-819/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-819/par-6 - suppl-5061-33/art-6/par-1: 新民法第七百四十九条 → 民法 第七百四十九条 (Article 749), art-749 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-749 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-749 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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-5061-33/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-2/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