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Article 16Special Provisions on Service

第十六条(送達の特例)

A person who has filed a petition, made an offer, or filed a notification with an enforcement court in connection with a civil enforcement procedure, or been served with a document by an enforcement court in connection with a civil enforcement procedure must notify the enforcement court of the place (limited to within Japan) at which they are to be served. In this case, the person may also notify the enforcement court of the designated person to be served.

民事執行の手続について、執行裁判所に対し申立て、申出若しくは届出をし、又は執行裁判所から文書の送達を受けた者は、送達を受けるべき場所(日本国内に限る。)を執行裁判所に届け出なければならない。この場合においては、送達受取人をも届け出ることができる。

The provisions of Article 104, paragraphs (2) and (3) and Article 107 of the Code of Civil Procedure apply mutatis mutandis to the cases referred to in the first sentence of the preceding paragraph.

民事訴訟法第百四条第二項及び第三項並びに第百七条の規定は、前項前段の場合について準用する。

Service on a person who has not filed a notification under the first sentence of paragraph (1) (excluding the person prescribed in Article 104, paragraph (3) of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph) is to be made at the person's domicile, residence, business office, or office that is indicated in the case record.

第一項前段の規定による届出をしない者(前項において準用する民事訴訟法第百四条第三項に規定する者を除く。)に対する送達は、事件の記録に表れたその者の住所、居所、営業所又は事務所においてする。

If service under the preceding paragraph is to be effected but it is not possible to effect service pursuant to the provisions of Article 106 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 20, the court clerk may send the document to the domicile, residence, business office, or office referred to in the preceding paragraph by registered mail or using services for delivering correspondence that are prescribed in that are provided by a general correspondence delivery provider prescribed in or specified correspondence delivery provider prescribed in and that are specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court as services equivalent to registered mail. In this case, the provisions of Article 107, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Code of Civil Procedure apply mutatis mutandis.

前項の規定による送達をすべき場合において、第二十条において準用する民事訴訟法第百六条の規定により送達をすることができないときは、裁判所書記官は、同項の住所、居所、営業所又は事務所に宛てて、書類を書留郵便又はに規定する一般信書便事業者若しくはに規定する特定信書便事業者の提供するに規定する信書便の役務のうち書留郵便に準ずるものとして最高裁判所規則で定めるものに付して発送することができる。この場合においては、民事訴訟法第百七条第二項及び第三項の規定を準用する。

Service by publication in a civil enforcement procedure is to be made by the court clerk keeping the document to be served and posting, on the court's bulletin board, a notice to the effect that the document is to be delivered to the person to be served at any time.

民事執行の手続における公示送達は、裁判所書記官が送達すべき書類を保管し、いつでも送達を受けるべき者に交付すべき旨を裁判所の掲示場に掲示してする。

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