# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百六十四条 (Article 864) - 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: 第八百六十四条 (Article 864)（後見監督人の同意を要する行為） — address `art-864` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-864 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-864 - 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. --- ### 第八百六十四条（後見監督人の同意を要する行為） — (Acts Requiring the Consent of the Guardian Supervisor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-864 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-864 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-864 **第一項** 後見人が、被後見人に代わって営業若しくは第十三条第一項各号に掲げる行為をし、又は未成年被後見人がこれをすることに同意するには、後見監督人があるときは、その同意を得なければならない。ただし、同項第一号に掲げる元本の領収については、この限りでない。 art-864/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-864/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-864/par-1 A guardian must obtain the consent of the guardian supervisor, if there is one, in order to do business or perform an act set forth in one of the items of Article 13, paragraph (1) on behalf of a ward, or in order to give consent for a minor ward to do the same; provided, however, that this does not apply to the receipt of principal set forth in Article 13, paragraph (1), item (i). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-864/par-1: 第十三条第一項 → 民法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-13/par-1 - art-864/par-1: 同項第一号 → 民法 第十三条第一項第一号 (Article 13, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-13/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-13/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-13/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百六十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-865/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-865/par-1 - 民法 第八百六十七条第二項（未成年被後見人に代わる親権の行使） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-867/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-867/par-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11