# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百四十条 (Article 740) - 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: 第七百四十条 (Article 740)（婚姻の届出の受理） — address `art-740` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-740 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-740 - 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. --- ### 第七百四十条（婚姻の届出の受理） — (Acceptance of Application to Register a Marriage) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-740 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-740 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-740 **第一項** 婚姻の届出は、その婚姻が第七百三十一条、第七百三十二条、第七百三十四条から第七百三十六条まで及び前条第二項の規定その他の法令の規定に違反しないことを認めた後でなければ、受理することができない。 art-740/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-740/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-740/par-1 It is not permissible to accept an application to register a marriage until the marriage has been found not to violate the provisions of Article 731, Article 732, and Article 734 through Article 736, the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, or the provisions of any other law or regulation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-740/par-1: 第七百三十一条 → 民法 第七百三十一条 (Article 731), art-731 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-731 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-731 - art-740/par-1: 第七百三十二条 → 民法 第七百三十二条 (Article 732), art-732 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-732 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-732 - art-740/par-1: 第七百三十四条から第七百三十六条まで → 民法 第七百三十四条 (Article 734), art-734 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-734 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-734 - art-740/par-1: 第七百三十四条から第七百三十六条まで → 民法 第七百三十五条 (Article 735), art-735 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-735 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-735 - art-740/par-1: 第七百三十四条から第七百三十六条まで → 民法 第七百三十六条 (Article 736), art-736 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-736 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-736 - art-740/par-1: 前条第二項 → 民法 第七百三十九条第二項 (Article 739, paragraph (2)), art-739/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-739/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-739/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第七百四十一条第一項（外国に在る日本人間の婚姻の方式） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-741/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-741/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 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), 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-20261011T170941-001, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11