# 仲裁法 / Arbitration Act — 第三条 (Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（適用範囲） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（適用範囲） — (Scope of Application) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-3 **第一項** 次章から第七章まで、第九章及び第十章の規定は、次項及び第八条に定めるものを除き、仲裁地が日本国内にある場合について適用する。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-3/par-1 Except for the matters provided for in the following paragraph and Article 8, the provisions of the following Chapter through Chapter VII and the provisions of Chapters IX and X apply to the case in which the place of arbitration is in Japan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第十四条第一項及び第十五条の規定は、仲裁地が日本国内にある場合、仲裁地が日本国外にある場合及び仲裁地が定まっていない場合に適用する。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) and Article 15 apply to the case in which the place of arbitration is in or outside Japan, or has yet to be determined. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第八章の規定は、仲裁地が日本国内にある場合及び仲裁地が日本国外にある場合に適用する。 art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-3/par-3 The provisions of Chapter VIII apply to the case in which the place of arbitration is in or outside Japan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-3/par-1: 次項 → 仲裁法 第三条第二項 (Article 3, paragraph (2)), art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-3/par-2 - art-3/par-1: 第八条 → 仲裁法 第八条 (Article 8), art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-8 - art-3/par-2: 第十四条第一項 → 仲裁法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-14/par-1 - art-3/par-2: 第十五条 → 仲裁法 第十五条 (Article 15), art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-15 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 仲裁法 第三条第一項（適用範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-3/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