# 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)（自筆証書遺言の方式に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4301-72/art-6` - 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-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/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（自筆証書遺言の方式に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Formalities of Holographic Wills caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-72/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-6 **第一項** 附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の日前にされた自筆証書遺言については、新民法第九百六十八条第二項及び第三項の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4301-72/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-6/par-1 With regard to a holographic will made before the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 968, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the New Civil Code, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-72/art-6/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 民法 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4301-72/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-1/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4301-72/art-6/par-1: 新民法第九百六十八条第二項 → 民法 第九百六十八条第二項 (Article 968, paragraph (2)), art-968/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-968/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-968/par-2 - suppl-4301-72/art-6/par-1: 第三項 → 民法 第九百六十八条第三項 (Article 968, paragraph (3)), art-968/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-968/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-968/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-4301-72/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-4301-72/art-1/par-1/item-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