# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（行為能力に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4291-44/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（行為能力に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Capacity to Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4291-44/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-3 **第一項** 施行日前に制限行為能力者（新法第十三条第一項第十号に規定する制限行為能力者をいう。以下この条において同じ。）が他の制限行為能力者の法定代理人としてした行為については、同項及び新法第百二条の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4291-44/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-3/par-1 With regard to an act performed before the Effective Date by a person with qualified legal capacity (meaning a person with qualified legal capacity prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (1), item (x) of the New Act; the same applies below in this Article) as the legal representative of another person with qualified legal capacity, notwithstanding that paragraph and the provisions of Article 102 of the New Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-44/art-3/par-1: 新法第十三条第一項第十号 → 民法 第十三条第一項第十号 (Article 13, paragraph (1), item (x)), art-13/par-1/item-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-13/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-13/par-1/item-10 - suppl-4291-44/art-3/par-1: この条 → 民法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4291-44/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-3 - suppl-4291-44/art-3/par-1: 同項 → 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 - suppl-4291-44/art-3/par-1: 新法第百二条 → 民法 第百二条 (Article 102), art-102 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-102 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-102 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第三条第一項（行為能力に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-3/par-1 - 民法 附則第七条第一項（代理に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-7/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-20261011T170941-020, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11