# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百七十六条の九 (Article 876-9) - 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: 第八百七十六条の九 (Article 876-9)（補助人に代理権を付与する旨の審判） — address `art-876-9` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-9 - 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. --- ### 第八百七十六条の九（補助人に代理権を付与する旨の審判） — (Ruling Granting the Assistant the Authority to Represent) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-876-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-9 **第一項** 家庭裁判所は、第十五条第一項本文に規定する者又は補助人若しくは補助監督人の請求によって、被補助人のために特定の法律行為について補助人に代理権を付与する旨の審判をすることができる。 art-876-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-9/par-1 At the request of a person provided for in the main clause of Article 15, paragraph (1), the assistant, or the assistant supervisor, the family court may issue a ruling that grants the assistant authority to represent the person under assistance in respect of specified juridical acts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第八百七十六条の四第二項及び第三項の規定は、前項の審判について準用する。 art-876-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-9/par-2 The provisions of Article 876-4, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the ruling referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-876-9/par-1: 第十五条第一項 → 民法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-15/par-1 - art-876-9/par-2: 第八百七十六条の四第二項 → 民法 第八百七十六条の四第二項 (Article 876-4, paragraph (2)), art-876-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-4/par-2 - art-876-9/par-2: 第三項 → 民法 第八百七十六条の四第三項 (Article 876-4, paragraph (3)), art-876-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-4/par-3 - art-876-9/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第八百七十六条の九第一項 (Article 876-9, paragraph (1)), art-876-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-9/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第十五条第三項（補助開始の審判） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-15/par-3 - 民法 第十八条第三項（補助開始の審判等の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-18/par-3 - 民法 第八百七十六条の九第二項（補助人に代理権を付与する旨の審判） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-876-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-9/par-2 - 民法 第八百七十六条の十第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-876-10/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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11