# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（遺産の分割前における預貯金債権の行使に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4301-72/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（遺産の分割前における預貯金債権の行使に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Exercise of Claims for Deposits and Savings Before Division of the Estate caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-72/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-5 **第一項** 新民法第九百九条の二の規定は、施行日前に開始した相続に関し、施行日以後に預貯金債権が行使されるときにも、適用する。 suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-1 The provisions of Article 909-2 of the New Civil Code also apply where, with regard to succession that commenced before the Effective Date, a claim for deposits and savings is exercised on or after the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 施行日から附則第一条第三号に定める日の前日までの間における新民法第九百九条の二の規定の適用については、同条中「預貯金債権のうち」とあるのは、「預貯金債権（預金口座又は貯金口座に係る預金又は貯金に係る債権をいう。以下同じ。）のうち」とする。 suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-2 With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 909-2 of the New Civil Code during the period from the Effective Date to the day preceding the date specified in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "among claims for deposits and savings" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "among claims for deposits and savings (meaning claims for deposits or savings relating to a deposit account or a saving account; the same applies below)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-1: 新民法第九百九条の二 → 民法 第九百九条の二 (Article 909-2), art-909-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-909-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-909-2 - suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-2: 附則第一条第三号 → 民法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4301-72/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-1/par-1/item-3 - suppl-4301-72/art-5/par-2: 新民法第九百九条の二 → 民法 第九百九条の二 (Article 909-2), art-909-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-909-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-909-2 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-024, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11