Supplementary Provisions
附 則
Supplementary Provisions, Article 1Effective Date
第一条（施行期日）
This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year from the date of promulgation.
この法律は、公布の日から起算して一年を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Repeal of the Act on Public Notification Procedures
第二条（公示催告手続ニ関スル法律の廃止）
The Act on Public Notification Procedures (Act No. 29 of 1890) is repealed.
公示催告手続ニ関スル法律（明治二十三年法律第二十九号）は、廃止する。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 3Principles of Transitional Measures
第三条（経過措置の原則）
The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act and the Civil Enforcement Act as amended by this Act (excluding penal provisions) also apply to matters that arose before this Act comes into effect, except where these Supplementary Provisions provide otherwise; provided, however, that this does not affect the effect that arose under the provisions of those Acts before their amendment by this Act.
この法律による改正後の民事訴訟法、非訟事件手続法及び民事執行法の規定（罰則を除く。）は、この附則に特別の定めがある場合を除き、この法律の施行前に生じた事項にも適用する。ただし、この法律による改正前のこれらの法律の規定により生じた効力を妨げない。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Transitional Measures Concerning Agreement on Jurisdiction by Electronic or Magnetic Record, etc.
第四条（電磁的記録による管轄の合意等に関する経過措置）
The provisions of Article 11, paragraph (3) of the Code of Civil Procedure as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (referred to below as the "New Code of Civil Procedure") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 281, paragraph (2) of the New Code of Civil Procedure) do not apply to an agreement establishing the court of jurisdiction and an agreement not to file an appeal to the court of second instance while reserving the right to file a final appeal that were made before this Act comes into effect.
第一条の規定による改正後の民事訴訟法（以下「新民事訴訟法」という。）第十一条第三項（新民事訴訟法第二百八十一条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、この法律の施行前にされた管轄裁判所を定める合意及び上告をする権利を留保した控訴をしない旨の合意については、適用しない。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 5Transitional Measures Concerning Special Provisions on Demand Procedures That Are Handled Using Electronic Data Processing Systems
第五条（電子情報処理組織を用いて取り扱う督促手続の特則に関する経過措置）
With regard to an application for a demand for payment made pursuant to the provisions of Article 397, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Code of Civil Procedure prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (referred to below as the "Former Code of Civil Procedure"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.
第一条の規定による改正前の民事訴訟法（以下「旧民事訴訟法」という。）第三百九十七条第一項及び第二項の規定によりされた支払督促の申立てについては、なお従前の例による。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 7Transitional Measures Concerning Civil Fine Cases
第七条（過料事件に関する経過措置）
The provisions of Article 189, paragraph (4) of the New Code of Civil Procedure and the provisions of Article 163, paragraph (4) of the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 164, paragraph (8) of that Act) do not apply to a civil fine case (meaning a case involving the procedures for a judicial decision on a civil fine; the same applies in the following paragraph) in which, before this Act comes into effect, a judicial decision for a civil fine was executed pursuant to the provisions of Article 189, paragraph (1) of the Former Code of Civil Procedure or the provisions of Article 208, paragraph (1) of the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (referred to as the "Former Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act" in the following paragraph).
新民事訴訟法第百八十九条第四項の規定及び第二条の規定による改正後の非訟事件手続法第百六十三条第四項（同法第百六十四条第八項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、この法律の施行前に旧民事訴訟法第百八十九条第一項の規定又は第二条の規定による改正前の非訟事件手続法（次項において「旧非訟事件手続法」という。）第二百八条第一項の規定による過料の裁判の執行があった過料事件（過料についての裁判の手続に係る事件をいう。次項において同じ。）については、適用しない。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 39Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Penal Provisions
第三十九条（罰則の適用に関する経過措置）
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
この法律の施行前にした行為及びこの附則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。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 40Delegation to Cabinet Order
第四十条（政令への委任）
Beyond what is provided for in Articles 3 through 10, Article 29, and the preceding two Articles of the Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.
附則第三条から第十条まで、第二十九条及び前二条に規定するもののほか、この法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。