Supplementary Provisions, Article 9Transitional Measures Concerning Substitution in Court Proceedings in Litigation Concerning an Action to Rebut the Presumption of Legitimacy
第九条(嫡出否認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 substitution in court proceedings where a husband dies before the New Act comes into force in litigation concerning an action to rebut the presumption of legitimacy that is pending at the time the New Act comes into force, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding Article 41, paragraph (2).
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the earlier 1898 law on personal status proceedings (人事訴訟手続法, Act No. 13 of 1898) that Article 2 of those provisions repealed.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)