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A single arbitrator, or a panel of two or more arbitrators, that hears a civil dispute covered by an arbitration agreement (仲裁合意) and makes the arbitral award (仲裁判断) on it.
仲裁合意に基づき、その対象となる民事上の紛争について審理し、仲裁判断を行う一人の仲裁人又は二人以上の仲裁人の合議体
仲裁判断
The decision of the arbitrator or arbitrators on a civil dispute that the parties to an arbitration agreement (仲裁合意) have entrusted to them and agreed to accept.
An agreement to entrust the resolution of all or part of a civil dispute — one that has already arisen, or one that may arise in future over a certain legal relationship, whether contractual or not — to one or more arbitrators, and to accept their decision (the arbitral award, 仲裁判断).
既に生じた民事上の紛争又は将来において生ずる一定の法律関係（契約に基づくものであるかどうかを問わない。）に関する民事上の紛争の全部又は一部の解決を一人又は二人以上の仲裁人にゆだね、かつ、その判断（以下「仲裁判断」という。）に服する旨の合意
暫定保全措置命令
An order by the arbitral tribunal (仲裁廷), made on one party's petition before the arbitral award, requiring the other party to take one of the measures listed in Article 24, paragraph (1), such as not disposing of property needed to satisfy a claim, preventing serious harm, or not destroying evidence.
執行等認可決定
The court orders that the person who petitioned for an order for interim measures (暫定保全措置命令) may ask for under Article 47, paragraph (1): for an order requiring the measure in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (iii), an order allowing civil enforcement (民事執行) based on it; for an order requiring a measure in items (i), (ii), (iv) or (v), an order allowing the court to order a payment of money under Article 49, paragraph (1) where it finds the order has been or is likely to be breached.
The party who took the step that started the arbitration procedure.
仲裁手続において、これを開始させるための行為をした当事者
消費者
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則), a consumer as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Consumer Contract Act (Act No. 61 of 2000): any individual, except one who becomes a party to a contract as a business or for the purposes of a business.
消費者契約法（平成十二年法律第六十一号）第二条第一項に規定する消費者
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則), an arbitration agreement (仲裁合意) between a consumer (消費者) and a business operator (事業者) covering civil disputes that may arise between them in future, other than one covering future individual labor-related disputes, which Article 4 of the supplementary provisions makes void.
This Act as amended by Act No. 15 of 2023.
The date Act No. 15 of 2023, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
In Article 9-4, a petition or other statement made in a proceeding the court conducts under this Act.
仲裁権限
In Article 23, the arbitral tribunal's authority to hear the case in the arbitration procedure and to make an arbitral award (仲裁判断).
仲裁手続における審理及び仲裁判断を行う権限
違反金支払命令
In Article 49, the court's order under paragraph (1) of that Article that a person who has breached, or is likely to breach, an order for interim measures (暫定保全措置命令) of the kinds in Article 24, paragraph (1), items (i), (ii), (iv) and (v) pay the petitioner a sum of money the court considers reasonable — where it finds only that a breach is likely, a payment due on condition that the person breaches the order. It is made once an enforcement approval order (執行等認可決定) on that order for interim measures is final, or at the same time as that approval order, and in that case becomes final only when the approval order does (paragraph (2)).
A document a party to an arbitration procedure prepares and submits to the arbitral tribunal (仲裁廷), setting out that party's allegations.
仲裁手続において当事者が作成して仲裁廷に提出する書面であって、当該当事者の主張が記載されているもの
In Article 12, the place an addressee has designated as where documents from the sender are to be delivered.
名宛人が発信人からの書面の配達を受けるべき場所として指定した場所
In Article 9-4, paragraphs (1), (2) and (4), a written document, papers, a transcript, an extract, an authenticated copy, a duplicate, a counterpart or any other paper or tangible object on which characters, figures or other information people can perceive is set down.
書面、書類、文書、謄本、抄本、正本、副本、複本その他文字、図形等人の知覚によって認識することができる情報が記載された紙その他の有体物
仲裁被申立人
A party to the arbitration procedure other than the party who started it (the arbitration petitioner, 仲裁申立人).
仲裁申立人以外の仲裁手続の当事者
A court order allowing civil enforcement (民事執行) based on an arbitral award (仲裁判断).
仲裁判断に基づく民事執行を許す旨の決定
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であって、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるもの
申立人
In Article 24, paragraph (8), the party who petitioned the arbitral tribunal (仲裁廷) for an order for interim measures (暫定保全措置命令).
申立人
In Article 49, paragraph (6), the person who petitioned for the order for interim measures (暫定保全措置命令) that the court's payment order under that Article enforces.
被申立人
In Article 49, the person who received an order for interim measures (暫定保全措置命令) requiring a measure in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (i), (ii), (iv) or (v), for which a final enforcement approval order (執行等認可決定) has been made.
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則), a business operator as defined in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Consumer Contract Act (Act No. 61 of 2000): a corporation or other organization, or an individual who becomes a party to a contract as a business or for the purposes of a business.
同条第二項に規定する事業者
In Article 9-4, paragraph (4), signing, writing one's name, affixing a seal or otherwise putting a person's or organization's name on a paper document or other prescribed item (書面等).
署名、記名、押印その他氏名又は名称を書面等に記載すること
An electronic or magnetic record (電磁的記録) a court clerk (裁判所書記官) prepares to record and certify the form, content and progress of proceedings on or outside a court date (期日) — the wording of Article 160, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure that the appended table (別表) to Article 10 replaces with a written record (調書) for court proceedings under this Act.
期日又は期日外における手続の方式、内容及び経過等の記録及び公証をするためにこの法律その他の法令の規定により裁判所書記官が作成する電磁的記録