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Article 28-2Mutatis Mutandis Application of this Act

第二十八条の二(この法律の準用)

The provisions of Article 2 and of Chapter I-2 to the preceding Chapter apply mutatis mutandis to violence caused by a partner in a relationship in which the partners share a principal place of daily activity (excluding those who do not live together in a manner similar to that of a marital relationship) (meaning physical violence, etc. by the partner in the relationship, and includes physical violence, etc. that a person continues to be subjected to by someone with whom the person was in a relationship when the person ended the relationship after being subjected to physical violence, etc. by the partner in the relationship) and to the person who has been subjected to the violence. In this case, the term "spousal violence" in these provisions (excluding Article 2) is deemed to be replaced with "violence by a specified related party", and each term listed in the middle column of the following table within the provisions listed in the left-hand column of the same table is deemed to be replaced with the respective term listed in the right-hand column of the same table.

Article 2spousal violenceviolence by a partner in a relationship as prescribed in Article 28-2 (hereinafter referred to as a "specified related party")
victimsvictims (meaning those who have been subjected to violence by a specified related party; the same applies hereinafter)
Article 6, paragraph (1)spouse or former spousespecified related party or former specified related party
Article 10, paragraphs (1) through (4), Article 10-2, Article 11, paragraph (2), item (ii) and paragraph (3), item (ii), Article 12, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iv) and paragraph (2), items (i) and (ii), and Article 18, paragraph (1)spousespecified related party
Article 10, paragraph (1), Article 10-2, and Article 12, paragraph (1), item (i) and paragraph (2), item (i)the victim has obtained a divorce or annulment of marriagethe person has ended the relationship as prescribed in Article 28-2

第二条及び第一章の二から前章までの規定は、生活の本拠を共にする交際(婚姻関係における共同生活に類する共同生活を営んでいないものを除く。)をする関係にある相手からの暴力(当該関係にある相手からの身体に対する暴力等をいい、当該関係にある相手からの身体に対する暴力等を受けた後に、その者が当該関係を解消した場合にあっては、当該関係にあった者から引き続き受ける身体に対する暴力等を含む。)及び当該暴力を受けた者について準用する。この場合において、これらの規定(同条を除く。)中「配偶者からの暴力」とあるのは、「特定関係者からの暴力」と読み替えるほか、次の表の上欄に掲げる規定中同表の中欄に掲げる字句は、それぞれ同表の下欄に掲げる字句に読み替えるものとする。

第二条配偶者第二十八条の二に規定する関係にある相手(以下「特定関係者」という。)
、被害者、被害者(特定関係者からの暴力を受けた者をいう。以下同じ。)
第六条第一項配偶者又は配偶者であった者特定関係者又は特定関係者であった者
第十条第一項から第四項まで、第十条の二、第十一条第二項第二号及び第三項第二号、第十二条第一項第一号から第四号まで並びに第二項第一号及び第二号並びに第十八条第一項配偶者特定関係者
第十条第一項、第十条の二並びに第十二条第一項第一号及び第二項第一号離婚をし、又はその婚姻が取り消された場合第二十八条の二に規定する関係を解消した場合

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