# 民法 / Civil Code — 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17) - 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: 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17)（啓発活動） — address `suppl-5061-33/art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条（啓発活動） — Awareness-Raising Activities caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5061-33/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-17 **第一項** 政府は、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律（次条及び附則第十九条第二項において「改正後の各法律」という。）の円滑な施行のため、新民法第七百六十六条第一項又は第二項（これらの規定を新民法第七百四十九条、第七百七十一条及び第七百八十八条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により子の監護について必要な事項を定めることの重要性について父母が理解と関心を深めることができるよう、必要な広報その他の啓発活動を行うものとする。 suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1 In order to ensure the smooth enforcement of the respective Acts as amended by this Act (referred to as "the respective Acts as amended" in the following Article and Article 19, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions), the government is to carry out necessary public relations and other awareness-raising activities so that parents may deepen their understanding of and interest in the importance of determining matters necessary for the custody of a child pursuant to the provisions of Article 766, paragraph (1) or (2) of the New Civil Code (including where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Articles 749, 771 and 788 of the New Civil Code). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1: 次条 → 民法 附則第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18), suppl-5061-33/art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-18 - suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1: 附則第十九条第二項 → 民法 附則第十九条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19, paragraph (2)), suppl-5061-33/art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-19/par-2 - suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1: 新民法第七百六十六条第一項 → 民法 第七百六十六条第一項 (Article 766, paragraph (1)), art-766/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-1 - suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1: 第二項 → 民法 第七百六十六条第二項 (Article 766, paragraph (2)), art-766/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-766/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-766/par-2 - suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1: 新民法第七百四十九条 → 民法 第七百四十九条 (Article 749), art-749 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-749 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-749 - suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1: 第七百七十一条 → 民法 第七百七十一条 (Article 771), art-771 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-771 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-771 - suppl-5061-33/art-17/par-1: 第七百八十八条 → 民法 第七百八十八条 (Article 788), art-788 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-788 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-788 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-1/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-20261011T170941-028, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11