Article 13 — Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims

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Article 13Prompt Judicial Decision

第十三条（迅速な裁判）

The court is to render judicial decisions promptly on cases pertaining to petitions for stay-away orders, orders under the provisions of Article 10, paragraphs (2) through (4), and eviction orders (hereinafter "protection order").

裁判所は、接近禁止命令、第十条第二項から第四項までの規定による命令及び退去等命令（以下「保護命令」という。）の申立てに係る事件については、速やかに裁判をするものとする。

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stay-away order
接近禁止命令（せっきんきんしめいれい）
A court order under Article 10, paragraph (1), made on the victim's (被害者) petition where further violence or threats from the spouse (配偶者, which in this Act includes a partner in a de facto marriage not legally registered) are highly likely to cause serious harm to the victim's life, mind or body, forbidding the spouse for one year to follow the victim around or to loiter near the victim's home, workplace or other places the victim usually is.
Article 10, paragraph (2)See it in the glossary
eviction order
退去等命令（たいきょとうめいれい）
A court order under Article 10-2, made on the victim's (被害者) petition where further physical violence from the spouse (配偶者, which in this Act includes a partner in a de facto marriage not legally registered) is highly likely to cause serious harm to the victim's life or body, requiring the spouse who shares the victim's home to leave it, and not to loiter near it, for two months (six months where the victim alone owns or rents the home and asks for it).
Article 11, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary
protection order
保護命令（ほごめいれい）
Any of the court orders this Act provides to protect a victim (被害者): the stay-away order (接近禁止命令) under Article 10, paragraph (1), the orders under Article 10, paragraphs (2) to (4), and the eviction order (退去等命令) under Article 10-2.
Article 13, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary

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as amended by Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 46 of 2026)民法等の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整備等に関する法律

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