# 仲裁法 / Arbitration Act — 第二十二条 (Article 22)

This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-22. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp.

- 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: 第二十二条 (Article 22)（後任の仲裁人の選任方法） — address `art-22`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-22
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-22
- Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it.
- Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below.

Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text
below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and
says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this
site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names.
They are never merged and never substituted for one another.

---

### 第二十二条（後任の仲裁人の選任方法） — (Method of Appointing the Successor Arbitrator)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-22</sup>

**第一項**  前条第一項各号に掲げる事由により仲裁人の任務が終了した場合における後任の仲裁人の選任の方法は、当事者間に別段の合意がない限り、任務が終了した仲裁人の選任に適用された選任の方法による。
<sup>art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-22/par-1</sup>
Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, if the arbitrator's duties have ended for the reasons stated in the items of the preceding Article, paragraph (1), the method of appointing a successor arbitrator is the appointment method applied to the appointment of the arbitrator whose duties have ended.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

---

## Cites
- art-22/par-1: 前条第一項 → 仲裁法 第二十一条第一項 (Article 21, paragraph (1)), art-21/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-21/par-1

---

## 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