# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 33) - 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: 第三十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 33) — address `suppl-3221-222/art-33` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-33 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-33 - 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. --- ### 第三十三条 suppl-3221-222/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-33 **第一項** 新法施行前に旧法第千七十九条第一項の規定に従つてした遺言で、同条第二項の規定による確認を得ないものについては、新法第九百七十九条第二項及び第三項の規定を準用する。 suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-1 With regard to a will made before the New Act came into effect in accordance with the provisions of Article 1079, paragraph (1) of the Former Act, for which confirmation under the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article has not been obtained, the provisions of Article 979, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the New Act apply mutatis mutandis. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新法施行前に海軍所属の艦船遭難の場合に旧法第千八十一条において準用する旧法第千七十九条第一項の規定に従つてした遺言で、同条第二項の規定による確認を得ないものについても、前項と同様である。 suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-2 The same as in the preceding paragraph applies to a will made before the New Act came into effect, in the event of distress of a vessel belonging to the Navy, in accordance with Article 1079, paragraph (1) of the Former Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 1081 of the Former Act, for which confirmation under the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article has not been obtained. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-2: 前項 → 民法 附則第三十三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 33, paragraph (1)), suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第三十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3221-222/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3221-222/art-33/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 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-20261011T170941-012, translated 2026-10-12 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-013, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11