The Prime Minister may make a service by publication in the following cases:
内閣総理大臣は、次に掲げる場合には、公示送達をすることができる。
when the domicile, residence, or other places where service of the document should be made 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
when service may not be made pursuant to the provisions of Article 107 paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article following the deemed replacement of terms;
前条において読み替え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
when the service that should be made in a foreign country may not be made by applying the provisions of Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article following the deemed replacement of terms, or when it is found that the service may not be made by the means referred to in the provisions; or
外国においてすべき送達について、前条において読み替え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
when six months have passed since a commission was issued to the competent government agency of a foreign country pursuant to the provisions of Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, and a document proving the service of the commission has not been sent.
前条において読み替え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 making a document stating that the document to be served should be delivered at any time to the person who is to receive the service available for inspection by a large number of unspecified persons by the means specified by Cabinet Office Order, and by posting a document stating that fact on the bulletin board at the Consumer Affairs Agency, or making the information available for inspection by displaying that fact on a screen of a computer installed at the office of the Consumer Affairs Agency.
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内閣府令で定める方法により不特定多数の者が閲覧することができる状態に置くとともに、その旨が記載された書面を消費者庁の掲示場に掲示し、又はその旨を消費者庁の事務所に設置した電子計算機の映像面に表示したものを閲覧することができる状態に置く措置をとることにより行う。
Service by publication becomes effective when two weeks have passed from the day on which the measures under the provisions of the preceding paragraph was taken.
公示送達は、前項の規定による措置をとつ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。
The period referred to in the preceding paragraph is to be six weeks for service by publication for a service required to be made in a foreign country.
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。