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Article 185-11Service by Publication

第百八十五条の十一(公示送達)

The Prime Minister or a trial examiner may make service by publication in the following cases:

内閣総理大臣又は審判官は、次に掲げる場合には、公示送達をすることができる。

the domicile or residence of the person to be served, or the place where to serve is unknown;

送達を受けるべき者の住所、居所その他送達をすべき場所が知れない場合

it is not possible to make the service pursuant the provisions of Article 107, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article;

前条において準用する民事訴訟法第百七条第一項の規定により送達をすることができない場合

with regard to service that must be made in a foreign country, it is not possible to make the service through the means prescribed in Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article, or in a case that is found not possible to make the service even through those means; or

外国においてすべき送達について、前条において準用する民事訴訟法第百八条の規定によることができず、又はこれによつても送達をすることができないと認めるべき場合

even after six months have elapsed since the competent government agency of a foreign country is issued a request to make the service pursuant to the provisions of Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article, a document certifying that the agency has made the service have not been sent.

前条において準用する民事訴訟法第百八条の規定により外国の管轄官庁に嘱託を発した後六月を経過してもその送達を証する書面の送付がない場合

Service by publication is made by a posting made on the notice board of the Financial Services Agency indicating that the documents that are required to be served will be delivered to the person that is to be served with them at any time.

公示送達は、送達すべき書類を送達を受けるべき者にいつでも交付すべき旨を金融庁の掲示場に掲示することにより行う。

Service by publication becomes effective after two weeks have elapsed from the day on which the posting under the provisions of the preceding paragraph was made.

公示送達は、前項の規定による掲示を始めた日から二週間を経過することによつて、その効力を生ずる。

For service by publication in respect of service that must be made in a foreign country, the period referred to in the preceding paragraph is six weeks.

外国においてすべき送達についてした公示送達にあつては、前項の期間は、六週間とする。

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