# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六百五十四条 (Article 654) - 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: 第六百五十四条 (Article 654)（委任の終了後の処分） — address `art-654` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-654 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-654 - 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. --- ### 第六百五十四条（委任の終了後の処分） — (Disposition after Termination of Mandate) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-654 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-654 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-654 **第一項** 委任が終了した場合において、急迫の事情があるときは、受任者又はその相続人若しくは法定代理人は、委任者又はその相続人若しくは法定代理人が委任事務を処理することができるに至るまで、必要な処分をしなければならない。 art-654/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-654/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-654/par-1 If a mandate has terminated but there are pressing circumstances, their mandatary or heir or legal representative must effect the necessary actions until the time when the mandator or the heir or legal representative of the mandatary is able to take charge of the mandated business. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百三十一条第一項（委任の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-831/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-831/par-1 - 民法 第八百五十二条第一項（委任及び後見人の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-852/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-852/par-1 - 民法 第八百七十四条第一項（委任の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-874/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-874/par-1 - 民法 第八百七十六条の三第二項（保佐監督人） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-3/par-2 - 民法 第八百七十六条の五第三項（保佐の事務及び保佐人の任務の終了等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-5/par-3 - 民法 第八百七十六条の八第二項（補助監督人） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-8/par-2 - 民法 第八百七十六条の十第二項（補助の事務及び補助人の任務の終了等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-10/par-2 - 民法 第千二十条第一項（委任の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1020/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1020/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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11