Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Transitional Measures Concerning Jurisdiction, etc. over Personal Status Litigation
第四条（人事訴訟の管轄等に関する経過措置）
With regard to the jurisdiction over and transfer of personal status litigation that is pending at the time the New Act comes into force, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 24, item (i) and Article 31-3, paragraph (1) of the Courts Act (Act No. 59 of 1947) as amended by Article 14 of the Supplementary Provisions and the provisions of Articles 4 through 7 and Article 31 of this Act.
新法の施行の際現に係属している人事訴訟の管轄及び移送に関しては、附則第十四条の規定による改正後の裁判所法（昭和二十二年法律第五十九号）第二十四条第一号及び第三十一条の三第一項の規定並びに第四条から第七条まで及び第三十一条の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。
With regard to the jurisdiction over personal status litigation concerning a claim whose purpose is to change the status of, or to obtain a declaratory judgment as to whether there exists, the same familial relationship as the subject of personal status litigation that is pending at the time the New Act comes into force, the provisions then in force continue to govern even after the New Act comes into force.
With regard to the jurisdiction over a case concerning an order for provisional remedies that is pending at the time the New Act comes into force, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding Article 30.
personal status litigation
「人事訴訟」
Litigation on a personal status action (人事に関する訴え): an action through which a person seeks to form a personal status relationship (身分関係) or a declaration whether one exists, such as an action to nullify or rescind a marriage, an action for divorce, an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy, an action for filiation, an action to nullify or rescind an adoption, or an action to confirm whether a marital, parent-child or adoptive relationship exists.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
the New Actmachine translation
「新法」
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Personal Status Litigation Act (Act No. 109 of 2003), that Act itself, as distinct from the earlier 1898 law on personal status proceedings (人事訴訟手続法, Act No. 13 of 1898) that Article 2 of those provisions repealed.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)