# 民法 / Civil Code — 第四百六十五条の七 (Article 465-7) - 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: 第四百六十五条の七 (Article 465-7)（保証に係る公正証書の方式の特則） — address `art-465-7` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-7 - 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. --- ### 第四百六十五条の七（保証に係る公正証書の方式の特則） — (Special Provisions for Formalities of Notarial Instrument on Guarantee) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-465-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-7 **第一項** 前条第一項の保証契約又は根保証契約の保証人になろうとする者が口がきけない者である場合には、公証人の前で、同条第二項第一号イ又はロに掲げる契約の区分に応じ、それぞれ当該イ又はロに定める事項を通訳人の通訳により申述し、又は自書して、同号の口授に代えなければならない。この場合における同項第二号の規定の適用については、同号中「口述」とあるのは、「通訳人の通訳による申述又は自書」とする。 art-465-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-7/par-1 If a person intending to become a guarantor of a guarantee contract or a contract for a revolving guarantee referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is unable to speak, the person must make a statement in front of the notary of the particulars specified in paragraph (2), item (i), (a) or (b) of that Article for the category of contract stated therein, through an interpreter or by that person's own hand, in lieu of the oral instructions referred to in the same item. In such a case, to apply the provisions of item (ii) of that paragraph, the term "oral instructions" in that item is deemed to be replaced with "statement through an interpreter or by that person's own hand". Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a person intending to become a guarantor of a guarantee contract or a contract for a revolving guarantee referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is unable to speak, the person must make a statement in front of the notary of the particulars specified in paragraph (1), item (i), (a) or (b) of that Article for the category of contract stated therein, through an interpreter or by that person's own hand, in lieu of the oral instructions referred to in the same item. In such a case, to apply the provisions of item (ii) of that paragraph, the term "oral instructions" in that item is deemed to be replaced with "statement through an interpreter or by that person's own hand"." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb **第二項** 前条第一項の保証契約又は根保証契約の保証人になろうとする者が耳が聞こえない者である場合には、公証人は、同条第二項第二号に規定する筆記した内容を通訳人の通訳により保証人になろうとする者に伝えて、同号の読み聞かせに代えることができる。 art-465-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-7/par-2 If a person intending to become a guarantor of a guarantee contract or contract for revolving guarantee referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is unable to hear, the notary may convey the content of the dictation taken as prescribed in paragraph (2), item (ii) of that Article to the person intending to become a guarantor, through an interpreter, in lieu of the reading it aloud referred to in the same item. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 公証人は、前二項に定める方式に従って公正証書を作ったときは、その旨をその証書に付記しなければならない。 art-465-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-7/par-3 If a notary prepares a notarial instrument in compliance with the formalities prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, the notary must include a supplementary note to that effect on the instrument. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-465-7/par-1: 前条第一項 → 民法 第四百六十五条の六第一項 (Article 465-6, paragraph (1)), art-465-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-6/par-1 - art-465-7/par-1: 同条第二項第一号 → 民法 第四百六十五条の六第二項第一号 (Article 465-6, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-465-6/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-6/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-6/par-2/item-1 - art-465-7/par-1: 同項第二号 → 民法 第四百六十五条の六第二項第二号 (Article 465-6, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-465-6/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-6/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-6/par-2/item-2 - art-465-7/par-2: 前条第一項 → 民法 第四百六十五条の六第一項 (Article 465-6, paragraph (1)), art-465-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-6/par-1 - art-465-7/par-2: 同条第二項第二号 → 民法 第四百六十五条の六第二項第二号 (Article 465-6, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-465-6/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-6/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-6/par-2/item-2 - art-465-7/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第四百六十五条の七第一項 (Article 465-7, paragraph (1)), art-465-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-7/par-1 - art-465-7/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第四百六十五条の七第二項 (Article 465-7, paragraph (2)), art-465-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-7/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第四百六十五条の七第三項（保証に係る公正証書の方式の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-7/par-3 - 民法 第四百六十五条の八第一項（公正証書の作成と求償権についての保証の効力） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-8/par-1 - 民法 第四百六十五条の九第一項（公正証書の作成と保証の効力に関する規定の適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-465-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-465-9/par-1 - 民法 附則第二十一条第三項（保証債務に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-21/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-21/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-12 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code (民法), Article 465-7, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11