# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百六条 (Article 106) - 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: 第百六条 (Article 106)（補充送達及び差置送達） — address `art-106` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-106 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-106 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百六条（補充送達及び差置送達） — (Substituted Service and Service by Leaving Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-106 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-106 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-106 **第一項** 就業場所以外の書類の送達をすべき場所において送達を受けるべき者に出会わないときは、使用人その他の従業者又は同居者であって、書類の受領について相当のわきまえのあるものに書類を交付することができる。郵便の業務に従事する者が日本郵便株式会社の営業所において書類を交付すべきときも、同様とする。 art-106/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-106/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-106/par-1 If a person effecting service of a document does not find the person that is to be served at the non-workplace location where service is to be effected, the document may be delivered to an employee or other worker, or to a person that lives with the person to be served, who will exercise reasonable discretion concerning the receipt of that document. The same applies if a person engaging in postal services is to deliver the document at the business office of Japan Post Co., Ltd. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 就業場所（第百四条第一項前段の規定による届出に係る場所が就業場所である場合を含む。）において送達を受けるべき者に出会わない場合において、第百三条第二項の他人又はその法定代理人若しくは使用人その他の従業者であって、書類の受領について相当のわきまえのあるものが書類の交付を受けることを拒まないときは、これらの者に書類を交付することができる。 art-106/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-106/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-106/par-2 If a person effecting service does not find the person to be served at their workplace (including if the place reported in the notification submitted pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of Article 104, paragraph (1) is the workplace) and another person stated in Article 103, paragraph (2) or that person's legal representative or employee or other worker who will exercise reasonable discretion concerning the receipt of a document does not refuse to have the document delivered to them, the document may be delivered to such a person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 送達を受けるべき者又は第一項前段の規定により書類の交付を受けるべき者が正当な理由なくこれを受けることを拒んだときは、書類の送達をすべき場所に書類を差し置くことができる。 art-106/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-106/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-106/par-3 If a person that is to be served or a person to whom a document is to be delivered pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of paragraph (1) refuses to service or refuses delivery of the document without a legitimate reason for refusing to do so, the document may be left at a place where service of the document may be effected. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-106/par-2: 第百四条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百四条第一項 (Article 104, paragraph (1)), art-104/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-104/par-1 - art-106/par-2: 第百三条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三条第二項 (Article 103, paragraph (2)), art-103/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-103/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-103/par-2 - art-106/par-3: 第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百六条第一項 (Article 106, paragraph (1)), art-106/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-106/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-106/par-1 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 不当景品類及び不当表示防止法 第四十三条第一項（送達に関する民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/premiums-and-representations-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/337AC0000000134/art-43/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百五十条第一項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-150/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-150/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百六十二条第一項（送達に関する民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-162/par-1 - 民事執行法 第十六条第四項（送達の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-16/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-16/par-4 - 民事訴訟法 第百四条第三項第二号（送達場所等の届出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-104/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-104/par-3/item-2 - 民事訴訟法 第百六条第三項（補充送達及び差置送達） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-106/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-106/par-3 - 民事訴訟法 第百七条第一項（書留郵便等に付する送達） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-107/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-107/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 附則第百四条第二項（民事訴訟法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4171-102/art-104/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4171-102/art-104/par-2 - 特定商取引に関する法律 第六十六条の四第一項（送達に関する民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/specified-commercial-transactions-act/art-66-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/351AC0000000057/art-66-4/par-1 - 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第三十二条第一項（送達に関する民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-32/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/408AC0000000109/20260624_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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17