# 仲裁法 / Arbitration Act — 第十五条 (Article 15)

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- Law: 仲裁法 (Arbitration Act), 平成十五年法律第百三十八号
- English title "Arbitration Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第十五条 (Article 15)（仲裁合意と裁判所の保全処分） — address `art-15`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-15
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-15
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### 第十五条（仲裁合意と裁判所の保全処分） — (Arbitration Agreement and Provisional Order by the Court)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-15</sup>

**第一項**  仲裁合意は、その当事者が、当該仲裁合意の対象となる民事上の紛争に関して、仲裁手続の開始前又は進行中に、裁判所に対して保全処分の申立てをすること、及びその申立てを受けた裁判所が保全処分を命ずることを妨げない。
<sup>art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-15/par-1</sup>
An arbitration agreement does not preclude the parties from filing a petition for a provisional order with the court before the commencement or during the course of the arbitration procedure in regard to the civil dispute that is the subject of the arbitration agreement, and does not preclude the court that has received the petition from issuing a provisional order.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 仲裁法 第三条第二項（適用範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-3/par-2

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 仲裁法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000138/20260521_504AC0000000048), retrieved 2026-11-01
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Arbitration Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4440/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01
- This site's parser, version 219 — 仲裁法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01
