# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二章 (Part 8, Chapter 2) - Law: 民事訴訟法 (Code of Civil Procedure), 平成八年法律第百九号 - English title "Code of Civil Procedure": 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: 第二章 (Part 8, Chapter 2) — address `pt-8/ch-2` - Text: the text as amended with effect from 2028-12-23 (The date on which the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 45 of 2026) comes into force. The exact day is not fixed yet.) — NOT yet in force (revision 20281223_508AC0000000046) - URL (this text's page, at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2 - The same address in the text in force (its wording there may differ): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/pt-8/ch-2 - Every provision below carries its address and its place on this text's page 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. The Ministry's English is given only where this text's Japanese is a wording the Ministry translated — the same as the text in force, or for a text not yet in force, a wording it translated ahead; every other paragraph's English is machine translation. --- ## 第二章　電子情報処理組織による督促手続の特則 — Chapter II Special Provisions on Demand Procedures That Are Handled Using Electronic Data Processing Systems heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System pt-8/ch-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2 ### 第三百九十七条（電子情報処理組織による支払督促の申立て） — (Applying for a Demand for Payment Using Electronic Date Processing Systems) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-397 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-397 **第一項** この章の規定による督促手続を取り扱う裁判所として最高裁判所規則で定める簡易裁判所（次条第一項及び第三百九十九条において「指定簡易裁判所」という。）の裁判所書記官に対しては、第三百八十三条の規定による場合のほか、同条に規定する簡易裁判所が別に最高裁判所規則で定める簡易裁判所である場合にも、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、最高裁判所規則で定める電子情報処理組織を使用する方法により支払督促の申立てをすることができる。 art-397/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-397/par-1 A means of using an electronic data processing system specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court may be used as provided by the Rules of the Supreme Court to file an application for a demand for payment with the court clerk of a summary court specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court as a court that handles demand procedures under the provisions of this Chapter (referred to as a "designated summary court" in Article 398, paragraph (1) and Article 399), not only in a case as prescribed in Article 383, but also if the summary court prescribed in that Article is a summary court separately provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ### 第三百九十八条 art-398 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-398 **第一項** 指定簡易裁判所の裁判所書記官に対してされた支払督促の申立てに係る督促手続における支払督促に対し適法な督促異議の申立てがあったときは、督促異議に係る請求については、その目的の価額に従い、当該支払督促の申立ての時に、第三百八十三条に規定する簡易裁判所で支払督促を発した裁判所書記官の所属するもの若しくは前条の別に最高裁判所規則で定める簡易裁判所又はその所在地を管轄する地方裁判所に訴えの提起があったものとみなす。 art-398/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-398/par-1 If, in demand procedures involving an application for a demand for payment that is filed with a court clerk of a designated summary court, a lawful objection to a demand is lodged against the relevant demand for payment, an action is deemed to have been filed, at the time that the application for the demand for payment was filed and regarding the claim that the objection concerns, with the summary court as provided for in Article 383, to which the court clerk issuing the demand for payment belongs, or the summary court separately provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court as referred to in the preceding Article, or with the district court of jurisdiction in the locality of either such summary court, depending on the value of the subject matter of the claim. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合において、同項に規定する簡易裁判所又は地方裁判所が二以上あるときは、督促異議に係る請求については、これらの裁判所中に第三百八十三条第一項に規定する簡易裁判所又はその所在地を管轄する地方裁判所がある場合にはその裁判所に、その裁判所がない場合には同条第二項第一号に定める地を管轄する簡易裁判所又はその所在地を管轄する地方裁判所に訴えの提起があったものとみなす。 art-398/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-398/par-2 In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if there are two or more applicable summary or district courts as prescribed in that paragraph, and the summary court as provided for in Article 383, paragraph (1) or the district court of jurisdiction in that locality is among them, the action regarding the claim that the objection concerns is deemed to have been filed there, and if neither of the courts is among them, the action for that claim is deemed to have been filed with the summary court of jurisdiction in the place specified in paragraph (2), item (i) of that Article or the district court of jurisdiction for that locality. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、債権者が、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、第一項に規定する簡易裁判所又は地方裁判所のうち、一の簡易裁判所又は地方裁判所を指定したときは、その裁判所に訴えの提起があったものとみなす。 art-398/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-398/par-3 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the creditor, as provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court, has designated a summary court or district court from among the summary courts or district courts as provided for in paragraph (1), the action is deemed to have been filed with that court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ### 第三百九十九条（電子情報処理組織による送達の効力発生の時期） — (When Service Using Electronic Data Processing Systems Takes Effect) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-399 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-399 **第一項** 第百九条の三の規定にかかわらず、送達を受けるべき債権者の同意があるときは、指定簡易裁判所の裁判所書記官に対してされた支払督促の申立てに係る督促手続に関する第百九条の二第一項の規定による送達は、同項の通知が当該債権者に対して発せられた時に、その効力を生ずる。 art-399/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-399/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 109-3, with the consent of the creditor that is to be served, service under the provisions of Article 109-2, paragraph (1) concerning demand procedures involving an application for a demand for payment that is filed with a court clerk of a designated summary court takes effect when a notice under that paragraph is sent to the creditor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ### 第四百条から第四百二条まで 〔削除 / repealed〕 art-400-to-402 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-400-to-402 **第一項** 削除 art-400-to-402/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-400-to-402/par-1 no English for this paragraph --- ## Cites - art-397/par-1: 次条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百九十八条第一項 (Article 398, paragraph (1)), art-398/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-398/par-1 - art-397/par-1: 第三百九十九条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百九十九条 (Article 399), art-399 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-399 - art-397/par-1: 第三百八十三条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百八十三条 (Article 383), art-383 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-1#art-383 - art-398/par-1: 第三百八十三条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百八十三条 (Article 383), art-383 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-1#art-383 - art-398/par-1: 前条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百九十七条 (Article 397), art-397 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-397 - art-398/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百九十八条第一項 (Article 398, paragraph (1)), art-398/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-398/par-1 - art-398/par-2: 第三百八十三条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百八十三条第一項 (Article 383, paragraph (1)), art-383/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-1#art-383/par-1 - art-398/par-2: 同条第二項第一号 → 民事訴訟法 第三百八十三条第二項第一号 (Article 383, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-383/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-1#art-383/par-2/item-1 - art-398/par-3: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百九十八条第二項 (Article 398, paragraph (2)), art-398/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-398/par-2 - art-398/par-3: 第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百九十八条第一項 (Article 398, paragraph (1)), art-398/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-8/ch-2#art-398/par-1 - art-399/par-1: 第百九条の三 → 民事訴訟法 第百九条の三 (Article 109-3), art-109-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-1/ch-5/from-art-101#art-109-3 - art-399/par-1: 第百九条の二第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百九条の二第一項 (Article 109-2, paragraph (1)), art-109-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/amendments/20281223_508AC0000000046/text/pt-1/ch-5/from-art-101#art-109-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事訴訟法 — the text as 令和八年法律第四十六号 leaves it, from a date not yet fixed (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/408AC0000000109/20281223_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-001, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17