# 民法 / Civil Code — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（周知） — address `suppl-5061-33/art-18` - 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-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（周知） — Public Awareness caption: machine translation, not official 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 **第一項** 政府は、改正後の各法律の円滑な施行のため、新民法第八百十九条各項の規定による親権者の定め方、新民法第八百二十四条の二第一項第三号の急迫の事情の意義、同条第二項の監護及び教育に関する日常の行為の意義その他の改正後の各法律の規定の趣旨及び内容について、国民に周知を図るものとする。 suppl-5061-33/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-18/par-1 In order to ensure the smooth enforcement of the respective Acts as amended, the government is to work to make the public aware of the method of determining the person with parental authority under the provisions of each paragraph of Article 819 of the New Civil Code, the meaning of pressing circumstances in Article 824-2, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the New Civil Code, the meaning of day-to-day acts concerning custody and education in paragraph (2) of that Article, and the purport and content of the provisions of the respective Acts as amended, such as these. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5061-33/art-18/par-1: 新民法第八百十九条 → 民法 第八百十九条 (Article 819), art-819 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-819 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-819 - suppl-5061-33/art-18/par-1: 新民法第八百二十四条の二第一項第三号 → 民法 第八百二十四条の二第一項第三号 (Article 824-2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-824-2/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-824-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-824-2/par-1/item-3 - suppl-5061-33/art-18/par-1: 同条第二項 → 民法 第八百二十四条の二第二項 (Article 824-2, paragraph (2)), art-824-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-824-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-824-2/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite 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 - 民法 附則第十七条第一項（啓発活動） — 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 --- ## 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