Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims
配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律
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被害者
A person who has suffered spousal violence (配偶者からの暴力), which in this Act includes violence from a partner in a de facto marriage not legally registered.
配偶者からの暴力を受けた者
配偶者からの暴力
Physical violence (an unlawful attack that causes harm to life or body), or words and acts with a comparably harmful effect on mind and body, from the spouse (配偶者, which in this Act includes a partner in a de facto marriage not legally registered), including such violence that continues from that person after a divorce (離婚, which includes the end of a de facto marriage) or annulment.
配偶者からの身体に対する暴力（身体に対する不法な攻撃であって生命又は身体に危害を及ぼすものをいう。以下同じ。）又はこれに準ずる心身に有害な影響を及ぼす言動（以下この項及び第二十八条の二において「身体に対する暴力等」と総称する。）
保護命令
Any of the court orders this Act provides to protect a victim (被害者): the stay-away order (接近禁止命令) under Article 10, paragraph (1), the orders under Article 10, paragraphs (2) to (4), and the eviction order (退去等命令) under Article 10-2.
接近禁止命令
A court order under Article 10, paragraph (1), made on the victim's (被害者) petition where further violence or threats from the spouse (配偶者, which in this Act includes a partner in a de facto marriage not legally registered) are highly likely to cause serious harm to the victim's life, mind or body, forbidding the spouse for one year to follow the victim around or to loiter near the victim's home, workplace or other places the victim usually is.
暴力
In the phrase physical violence (身体に対する暴力), an unlawful attack on a person's body that causes harm to their life or body.
身体に対する不法な攻撃であって生命又は身体に危害を及ぼすもの
協議会
A council that a prefecture (都道府県) must try to set up, alone or jointly, and a municipality (市町村) may set up, made up of the relevant bodies, organizations, people whose work concerns preventing spousal violence (配偶者からの暴力) and protecting victims (被害者), and others concerned, to prevent that violence and protect victims.
基本方針
The basic policy on measures to prevent spousal violence (配偶者からの暴力) and protect victims (被害者) that the competent ministers (主務大臣) must set under Article 2-2, and that prefectural and municipal basic plans must follow.
退去等命令
A court order under Article 10-2, made on the victim's (被害者) petition where further physical violence from the spouse (配偶者, which in this Act includes a partner in a de facto marriage not legally registered) is highly likely to cause serious harm to the victim's life or body, requiring the spouse who shares the victim's home to leave it, and not to loiter near it, for two months (six months where the victim alone owns or rents the home and asks for it).
申立て等
In Article 14-4, a petition or any other statement made in proceedings for a protection order (保護命令).
都道府県基本計画
The basic plan each prefecture (都道府県) must set, in line with the basic policy (基本方針), for carrying out measures to prevent spousal violence (配偶者からの暴力) and protect victims (被害者) in the prefecture.
通信文等
In Article 10, messages and other information sent, including the sender, recipient, date and time and other information needed to carry out the telecommunications (電気通信).
In Article 2-2 and Article 2-3, paragraph (5), the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣), the National Public Safety Commission (国家公安委員会), the Minister of Justice (法務大臣) and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣), who must together set the basic policy (基本方針) on preventing spousal violence and protecting victims.
身体に対する暴力等
In Chapter IV on protection orders (保護命令), physical violence (身体に対する暴力) or a threat (脅迫) to harm a person's life, body, freedom, reputation or property.
In the phrase threat against life, etc. (生命等に対する脅迫), used in Chapter IV on protection orders (保護命令), a threat made by telling the victim (被害者) that harm will be done to the victim's life or body.
被害者の生命又は身体に対し害を加える旨を告知してする脅迫
The written petition for a protection order (保護命令): for a stay-away order (接近禁止命令) or an order under Article 10, paragraphs (2) to (4) under Article 12, paragraph (1), or for an eviction order (退去等命令) under Article 12, paragraph (2).
市町村基本計画
The basic plan a municipality (市町村, including Tokyo's special wards (特別区)) must try to set, in line with the basic policy (基本方針) and taking the prefectural basic plan (都道府県基本計画) into account, for carrying out measures to prevent spousal violence (配偶者からの暴力) and protect victims (被害者) in its area.
A device able to record or transmit location information (位置情報) on its own position, of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) sets.
当該装置の位置に係る位置情報（地理空間情報活用推進基本法（平成十九年法律第六十三号）第二条第一項第一号に規定する位置情報をいう。以下この号及び次号において同じ。）を記録し、又は送信する機能を有する装置で政令で定めるもの
In Article 10, paragraphs (4) and (5) and Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iv), a relative of the victim (被害者) or another person closely connected with the victim in social life, other than a child living with the victim and anyone living with the spouse (配偶者).
電子メールの送信等
In Article 10, paragraph (2), items (iv) and (v), sending email, as defined in the Act on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail, or other telecommunications (電気通信) to a particular recipient, or sending messages, etc. (通信文等) by another information and communications method a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) sets, but not phoning or faxing.
次の各号のいずれかに掲げる行為（電話をかけること及び通信文等をファクシミリ装置を用いて送信することを除く。）
A court order under Article 10, paragraph (3) that, to keep the victim (被害者) from being forced to meet the spouse (配偶者, which in this Act includes a partner in a de facto marriage not legally registered) over a child under adulthood (成年) who lives with the victim, forbids the spouse to follow the child around or loiter near the child's home or school, or to do to the child most of the acts Article 10, paragraph (2) lists.
In Article 14-4, paragraphs (1), (2) and (4), a written document, papers, a transcript, extract, authenticated copy, duplicate or other paper or physical object on which characters, figures or other information people can perceive are written.
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
被害者
Where Article 28-2 applies this Act to partners who live together without being spouses, a person who has suffered violence from such a partner (特定関係者).
特定関係者からの暴力を受けた者
Short name, in Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 30 of 2023, for the Act Partially Amending the Code of Civil Procedure (Act No. 48 of 2022).
The date Act No. 30 of 2023, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
身体に対する暴力等
In Article 1, paragraph (1) and Article 28-2, physical violence (an unlawful attack on the body that causes harm to life or body) or words and acts with a comparably harmful effect on a person's mind and body.
In Article 5-2, the relevant bodies, organizations, people whose work concerns preventing spousal violence (配偶者からの暴力) and protecting victims (被害者), and others concerned who make up a council (協議会).
福祉事務所
A welfare office (福祉に関する事務所) under the Social Welfare Act, which a prefecture or city must, and a town or village may, set up by ordinance (条例) to handle measures under the welfare laws.
Sending, passing on or receiving signs, sounds or images by wire, radio or other electromagnetic means, as defined in Article 2(i) of the Telecommunications Business Act.
電気通信事業法（昭和五十九年法律第八十六号）第二条第一号に規定する電気通信
Information showing the position of a particular point or area in space, including information on the time it refers to, as defined in Article 2(1)(i) of the Basic Act on the Advancement of Utilizing Geospatial Information.
地理空間情報活用推進基本法（平成十九年法律第六十三号）第二条第一項第一号に規定する位置情報
A device that transmits information identifying itself and is used to find where it is from the location information (位置情報) of nearby devices that receive that information and pass it on, such as a device for recording or transmitting location information (位置情報記録・送信装置).
当該装置を識別する情報を送信する機能を有し、当該装置の周辺において当該情報を受信した識別情報送受信装置（位置情報記録・送信装置その他の装置であって、当該情報を受信し、及び送信する機能を有するものをいう。）の位置に係る位置情報を利用して、その所在する地点又は区域の位置を特定するために用いられる装置
職務関係者
A person whose work involves protecting victims (被害者) of spousal violence (配偶者からの暴力), investigating it, trying it in court, or similar matters.
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 64 of 2004, this Act as it stood before Act No. 64 of 2004 amended it.
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
In Article 10, paragraph (2), item (xi), a device for recording or transmitting location information (位置情報記録・送信装置) or a locating device that transmits identifying information (位置特定用識別情報送信装置).
In Article 10, paragraphs (3) and (4) and Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iii), a child of the victim (被害者) who has not reached adulthood (成年).
In Article 14-4, paragraph (4), signing, writing one's name, affixing a seal or otherwise putting a person's or organization's name on a paper document, etc. (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
In Article 160, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure, as Article 21 applies it to protection order (保護命令) proceedings, an electronic record (電磁的記録) a court clerk (裁判所書記官) makes to record and certify the form, content and course of proceedings on or outside a hearing date, which Article 21 reads instead as a written record (調書).
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
For Article 28-2, which applies much of this Act to partners who live together without being spouses, a partner in a dating relationship (交際) with whom a person shares their main home, as long as they live together in a way similar to a married couple; the Act then reads this partner in place of the spouse (配偶者).
The day the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022) comes into effect.
Short name for the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 45 of 2026).