# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二十二条 (Article 22) - 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: 第二十二条 (Article 22)（移送の裁判の拘束力等） — address `art-22` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/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（移送の裁判の拘束力等） — (Binding Effect of a Judicial Decision for a Transfer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-22 **第一項** 確定した移送の裁判は、移送を受けた裁判所を拘束する。 art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-22/par-1 A judicial decision for a transfer which has become final and binding is binding on the court that has accepted the transferred case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 移送を受けた裁判所は、更に事件を他の裁判所に移送することができない。 art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-22/par-2 The court that has accepted a transferred case may not further transfer the case to another court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 移送の裁判が確定したときは、訴訟は、初めから移送を受けた裁判所に係属していたものとみなす。 art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-22/par-3 Once a judicial decision for a transfer becomes final and binding, the litigation is deemed to have been pending before the court to which it has been transferred since it was first brought to the initial court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の五第二項（証拠収集の処分の管轄裁判所等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-5/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百七十四条第一項（反訴の提起に基づく移送） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-274/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-274/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