# 民法 / Civil Code — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（元本の確定すべき期日に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3461-99/art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（元本の確定すべき期日に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Date on Which the Principal Is to Be Fixed caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3461-99/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-6 **第一項** この法律の施行の際旧根抵当権について現に存する担保すべき元本の確定すべき時期に関する定め又はその登記は、その定めにより元本が確定することとなる日をもつて新法第三百九十八条の六第一項の期日とする定め又はその登記とみなす。ただし、その定めにより元本が確定することとなる日がこの法律の施行の日から起算して五年を経過する日より後であるときは、当該定め又はその登記は、当該五年を経過する日をもつて同項の期日とする定め又はその登記とみなす。 suppl-3461-99/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-3461-99/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-3461-99/art-6/par-1 A provision on the time at which the principal secured is to be fixed, or its registration, that actually exists with respect to a former revolving mortgage when this Act comes into effect is deemed to be a provision or registration that specifies, as the date referred to in Article 398-6, paragraph (1) of the New Act, the day on which the principal is to be fixed pursuant to that provision; provided, however, that if the day on which the principal is to be fixed pursuant to that provision is later than the day on which five years have elapsed from the day this Act comes into effect, that provision or its registration is deemed to be a provision or registration that specifies, as the date referred to in that paragraph, the day on which those five years elapse. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3461-99/art-6/par-1: 新法第三百九十八条の六第一項 → 民法 第三百九十八条の六第一項 (Article 398-6, paragraph (1)), art-398-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-398-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-398-6/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-014, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11