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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（はいぐうしゃからのぼうりょくのぼうしおよびひがいしゃのほごとうにかんするほうりつ）

Amended by

Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc.

民法等の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整備等に関する法律

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The date on which the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 45 of 2026) comes into force. The exact day is not fixed yet.

The same amending law also changes

1 provision changed · 2 provisions in the supplementary provisions

Each provision the amendment changes, before and after in one: words it removes are struck through, words it adds are highlighted. The Japanese is the law; the icon beside each English column says whose English it is.

Article 10 · (Stay-away Orders)第十条（接近禁止命令等）

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  • ChangedArticle 10, paragraph (5)

    A petition referred to in the preceding paragraph may be filed only when the relative, etc. (excluding a child of the victim under 15 years of age; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) gives consent (if the relative, etc. is a person under 15 years of age or an adult warda person subject to a decision for a disposition appointing a specified assistant, only when their legal representative gives consent).

    前項の申立ては、当該親族等（被害者の十五歳未満の子を除く。以下この項において同じ。）の同意（当該親族等が十五歳未満の者又は成年被後見人特定補助人を付する処分の審判を受けた者である場合にあっては、その法定代理人の同意）がある場合に限り、することができる。

2 changes in the supplementary provisions (附則)

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2 · Transitional Measures concerning Adult Wards, etc.附則第二条（成年被後見人等に関する経過措置）

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  • AddedSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)

    With regard to an adult ward, a guardian of an adult and a supervisor of a guardian of an adult prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Civil Code, etc. Amendment Act for whom the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, and a person under curatorship, a curator and a supervisor of a curator prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act for whom the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of the respective Acts as amended by this Act (including cases where those provisions are applied mutatis mutandis in other Acts).

    民法等改正法附則第二条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる同項に規定する成年被後見人、成年後見人及び成年後見監督人並びに民法等改正法附則第三条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる同項に規定する被保佐人、保佐人及び保佐監督人については、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律の規定（これらの規定を他の法律において準用する場合を含む。）にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。

Supplementary Provisions, Article 4 · Transitional Measures concerning Penal Provisions附則第四条（罰則に関する経過措置）

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  • AddedSupplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)

    With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the enforcement of this Act and to acts committed after the enforcement of this Act in cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1) or Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Civil Code, etc. Amendment Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

    この法律の施行前にした行為及び民法等改正法附則第二条第一項又は第三条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。