# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（雇用関係の先取特権に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4151-134/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4151-134/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4151-134/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（雇用関係の先取特権に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Statutory Liens for Employment Relationships caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4151-134/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4151-134/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4151-134/art-2 **第一項** 第一条の規定による改正後の民法第三百六条第二号及び第三百八条の規定は、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）以後に同号に掲げる原因により生じた債権及び同条の雇用関係に基づいて生じた債権に係る先取特権について適用し、施行日前に第一条の規定による改正前の民法（以下「旧民法」という。）第三百六条第二号に掲げる原因により生じた債権及び旧民法第三百八条の雇人給料（債務者の雇人が受けるべき最後の六箇月間の給料に限る。）として生じた債権に係る先取特権については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4151-134/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4151-134/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4151-134/art-2/par-1 The provisions of Article 306, item (ii) and Article 308 of the Civil Code as amended pursuant to the provisions of Article 1 apply to statutory liens pertaining to claims that arose, on or after the day this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), from the cause listed in that item and claims that arose based on the employer-employee relationship referred to in that Article, and the provisions then in force continue to govern statutory liens pertaining to claims that arose, before the Effective Date, from the cause listed in Article 306, item (ii) of the Civil Code before amendment pursuant to the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Civil Code") and claims that arose as wages of employees under Article 308 of the Former Civil Code (limited to wages for the most recent six months that the obligor's employees are entitled to receive). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4151-134/art-2/par-1: 民法第三百六条第二号 → 民法 第三百六条第一項第二号 (Article 306, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-306/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-306/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-306/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4151-134/art-2/par-1: 第三百八条 → 民法 第三百八条 (Article 308), art-308 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-308 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-308 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-017, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11