The new Civil Code takes over many provisions of other Acts which are at the same time repealed, for example the Family Act, the Flat Ownership Act, the Act on Association of Persons etc. It re-introduces the former Czech legal terminology, which was gradually abandoned by the Civil Codes of 1950 and 1964.

It has 5 parts:

• General part dealing with the basic rules, the physical and legal persons, the representation, the securities etc.
• The Family Law part dealing with family relationships (incl. a re-introduction of the affinity), the wardship and other forms of the child care. The Act on Registered Partnership No. 115/2006 Coll. remains in force.
• The Property Law part regulates the tenure, the possession, the ownership and co-ownership, the encumbrance, the lien, and also the heirship. The new provisions on, for example, renouncing the line of inheritance or the inheritance, the intestacy, the will, the disinheritance etc. are introduced.
• The Contractual Law part, where new types of contractual relations are defined.
• Common, interim and final provisions.

Full information on the new Civil Code is available at the website of the Ministry of Justice (in Czech only).