# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第四十三条 (Article 43) - 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: 第四十三条 (Article 43)（補助参加の申出） — address `art-43` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-43 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-43 - 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. --- ### 第四十三条（補助参加の申出） — (Application for Supporting Intervention) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-43 **第一項** 補助参加の申出は、参加の趣旨及び理由を明らかにして、補助参加により訴訟行為をすべき裁判所にしなければならない。 art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-43/par-1 An application for supporting intervention must clarify the purpose and the grounds for the intervention, and must be filed with the court where procedural acts in that supporting intervention are required to be performed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 補助参加の申出は、補助参加人としてすることができる訴訟行為とともにすることができる。 art-43/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-43/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-43/par-2 An application for supporting intervention may be filed in conjunction with the performance of a procedural act that may be performed by a supporting intervener. 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 第四十七条第四項（独立当事者参加） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-47/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-47/par-4 - 民事訴訟法 第五十二条第二項（共同訴訟参加） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-52/par-2 --- ## 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