# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2) - Law: 民事執行法 (Civil Enforcement Act), 昭和五十四年法律第四号 - English title "Civil Enforcement 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: 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2)（期日の呼出しの特例） — address `art-15-2` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-15-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15-2 - 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. --- ### 第十五条の二（期日の呼出しの特例） — Special Provisions on Summons for the Date caption: machine translation, not official art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15-2 **第一項** 民事執行の手続における期日の呼出しは、呼出状の送達、当該事件について出頭した者に対する期日の告知その他相当と認める方法によつてする。 art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15-2/par-1 A summons for the date in a civil enforcement procedure is to be made by serving a writ of summons, announcing the date to a person who has appeared in connection with the case in question, or any other method found to be appropriate. machine translation, not official **第二項** 呼出状の送達及び当該事件について出頭した者に対する期日の告知以外の方法による期日の呼出しをしたときは、期日に出頭しない者に対し、法律上の制裁その他期日の不遵守による不利益を帰することができない。ただし、その者が期日の呼出しを受けた旨を記載した書面を提出したときは、この限りでない。 art-15-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-15-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-15-2/par-2 If a summons for the date is made by a method other than serving a writ of summons or announcing the date to a person who has appeared in connection with the case in question, no legal sanction or other disadvantage due to non-compliance with the date may be attributed to a person who does not appear on the date; however, this does not apply if that person has submitted a document stating that the person has received a summons for the date. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第二十一条の二第三項（家庭裁判所における執行関係訴訟手続に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-21-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-21-2/par-3 - 民事執行法 附則第五条第一項（特例執行文付与申立事件に適用する規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-3541-4/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-3541-4/art-5/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事執行法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/354AC0000000004/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-enforcement-act-20261019T093630-001, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19