# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（代理に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4291-44/art-7` - 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-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（代理に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Agency caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4291-44/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-7 **第一項** 施行日前に代理権の発生原因が生じた場合（代理権授与の表示がされた場合を含む。）におけるその代理については、附則第三条に規定するもののほか、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4291-44/art-7/par-1 · 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 With regard to agency in the case where the cause giving rise to authority to represent arose before the Effective Date (including the case where an indication of the grant of authority to represent was made), beyond what is prescribed in Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 施行日前に無権代理人が代理人として行為をした場合におけるその無権代理人の責任については、新法第百十七条（新法第百十八条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4291-44/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4291-44/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4291-44/art-7/par-2 With regard to the liability of an unauthorized agent in the case where the unauthorized agent acted as an agent before the Effective Date, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 117 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 118 of the New Act), the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-44/art-7/par-1: 附則第三条 → 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-7/par-2: 新法第百十七条 → 民法 第百十七条 (Article 117), art-117 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-117 - suppl-4291-44/art-7/par-2: 新法第百十八条 → 民法 第百十八条 (Article 118), art-118 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-118 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-118 --- ## 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