# 民法 / Civil Code — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（民法の一部改正に伴う経過措置の原則） — address `suppl-5061-33/art-2` - 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-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（民法の一部改正に伴う経過措置の原則） — Principle of Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Civil Code caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5061-33/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-2 **第一項** 第一条の規定による改正後の民法（以下「新民法」という。）の規定は、この附則に特別の定めがある場合を除き、この法律の施行前に生じた事項にも適用する。ただし、同条の規定による改正前の民法（附則第六条において「旧民法」という。）の規定により生じた効力を妨げない。 suppl-5061-33/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-2/par-1 The provisions of the Civil Code as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Civil Code") also apply to matters that arose before the enforcement of this Act, except where there are special provisions in these Supplementary Provisions; provided, however, that this does not prevent the effect that arose under the provisions of the Civil Code prior to the amendment by the provisions of that Article (referred to as the "Former Civil Code" in Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5061-33/art-2/par-1: 附則第六条 → 民法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-5061-33/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5061-33/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5061-33/art-6 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-027, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11