Supplementary Provisions, Article 10Transitional Measures Concerning Substitution in Court Proceedings in Litigation Concerning an Action for Filiation
第十条（認知の訴えに係る訴訟における訴訟手続の受継に関する経過措置）
With regard to the application of Article 42, paragraph (3) where a child dies before the New Act comes into force in litigation concerning an action for filiation that is pending at the time the New Act comes into force, the phrase "the day on which the child died" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the day on which this Act comes into force".
新法の施行の際現に係属している認知の訴えに係る訴訟における新法の施行前に子が死亡した場合の第四十二条第三項の規定の適用については、同項中「子の死亡の日」とあるのは、「この法律の施行の日」とする。
the New Actmachine translation
「新法」
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of the Personal Status Litigation Act (Act No. 109 of 2003), that Act itself, as distinct from the earlier 1898 law on personal status proceedings (人事訴訟手続法, Act No. 13 of 1898) that Article 2 of those provisions repealed.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)