If the family court finds it necessary for an adult guardian to perform the guardian's duties, it may, at the request of the adult guardian, commission a person engaged in the business of delivering correspondence to deliver to the adult guardian, for a specified period, postal items addressed to the adult ward or correspondence delivery items prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators (Act No. 99 of 2002) (referred to as "postal items, etc." in the following Article).
家庭裁判所は、成年後見人がその事務を行うに当たって必要があると認めるときは、成年後見人の請求により、信書の送達の事業を行う者に対し、期間を定めて、成年被後見人に宛てた郵便物又は民間事業者による信書の送達に関する法律(平成十四年法律第九十九号)第二条第三項に規定する信書便物(次条において「郵便物等」という。)を成年後見人に配達すべき旨を嘱託することができる。
The period of the commission prescribed in the preceding paragraph may not exceed six months.
前項に規定する嘱託の期間は、六箇月を超えることができない。
If circumstances change after a ruling under paragraph (1) has been issued, the family court may revoke or modify the commission prescribed in that paragraph, at the request of the adult ward, the adult guardian, or the adult guardian's supervisor, or sua sponte; provided, however, that in the ruling for the modification, the period determined in the ruling under that paragraph may not be extended.
When the duties of the adult guardian have ended, the family court must revoke the commission prescribed in paragraph (1).
成年後見人の任務が終了したときは、家庭裁判所は、第一項に規定する嘱託を取り消さなければならない。