# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（訴訟費用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4081-109/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（訴訟費用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Court Costs caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4081-109/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-5 **第一項** 新法の施行前にした申立てに係る訴訟費用又は和解の費用の負担の額を定める手続に関しては、新法第七十一条から第七十三条までの規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4081-109/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-5/par-1 With regard to procedures, upon a petition filed before the New Act comes into effect, for fixing the amount of court costs or settlement costs to be borne, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 71 through 73 of the New Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新法の施行前に当事者が供託した金銭又は有価証券についての相手方の権利については、新法第七十七条（新法において準用する場合を含む。）の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4081-109/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-5/par-2 With regard to the right of the adverse party concerning money or securities deposited by a party before the New Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 77 of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis under the New Act). machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 附則第二十六条第一項（最高裁判所規則への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-26/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-001, translated 2026-10-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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