Supplementary Provisions, Article 5Transitional Measures Concerning Certification of Information Concerning Litigation
第五条（訴訟に関する事項の証明に関する経過措置）
The provisions of Article 91-3 of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 132-7 of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment) apply to certification of information concerning cases after the Article 2 amendment, and the provisions then in force continue to govern certification of information concerning cases pertaining to an action that were filed before the Effective Date (including cases in which, with regard to a petition other than an action made before the Effective Date, the filing of an action is deemed, under the provisions of laws and regulations pertaining to that petition on or after the Effective Date, to have been made at the time of that petition; the same applies below) and cases pertaining to civil litigation that commenced before the Effective Date (excluding cases pertaining to an action) (collectively referred to below as "cases before the Article 2 amendment").
第二条改正後民事訴訟法第九十一条の三（第二条改正後民事訴訟法第百三十二条の七において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、第二条改正後事件に関する事項の証明について適用し、訴えに係る事件であって施行日前に提起されたもの（施行日前にされた訴え以外の申立てについて、施行日以後に当該申立てに係る法令の規定により当該申立て時に訴えの提起があったものとみなされるものを含む。以下同じ。）及び施行日前に開始された民事訴訟に関する事件（訴えに係る事件を除く。）（以下「第二条改正前事件」と総称する。）に関する事項の証明については、なお従前の例による。