# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百八十八条 (Article 388) - 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: 第三百八十八条 (Article 388)（電子支払督促の送達） — address `art-388` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-388 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-388 - 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. --- ### 第三百八十八条（電子支払督促の送達） — (Service of Electronic Demand for Payment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-388 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-388 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-388 **第一項** 電子支払督促（前条第二項の規定によりファイルに記録されたものに限る。以下この章において同じ。）は、債務者に送達しなければならない。 art-388/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-388/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-388/par-1 An electronic demand for payment (limited to one recorded in the court's computer files pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article; the same applies in this Chapter) must be served on the debtor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 支払督促の効力は、債務者に送達された時に生ずる。 art-388/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-388/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-388/par-2 A demand for payment becomes valid at the time it is served on the debtor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 債権者が申し出た場所に債務者の住所、居所、営業所若しくは事務所又は就業場所がないため、電子支払督促を送達することができないときは、裁判所書記官は、その旨を債権者に通知しなければならない。この場合において、債権者が通知を受けた日から二月の不変期間内にその申出に係る場所以外の送達をすべき場所の申出をしないときは、支払督促の申立てを取り下げたものとみなす。 art-388/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-388/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-388/par-3 If it is not possible to serve an electronic demand for payment because the debtor's domicile, residence, business office or other office, or workplace is not located at the place the creditor has expressed, the court clerk must notify the creditor of this. In such a case, if the creditor does not propose a place for service to be effected other than the place previously proposed within an inalterable time frame of two weeks from the day on which the creditor receives that notice, the creditor is deemed to have withdrawn the application for the demand for payment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-388/par-1: 前条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百八十七条第二項 (Article 387, paragraph (2)), art-387/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-387/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-387/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百九十一条第五項（仮執行の宣言） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-391/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-391/par-5 - 民事訴訟法 附則第二十四条第一項（督促手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-24/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