# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13)

- 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
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- Provision: 第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13)（釈明処分による電磁的記録の提出に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5041-48/art-13`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第十三条（釈明処分による電磁的記録の提出に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Submission of Electronic or Magnetic Records by Order for Clarification
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5041-48/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-13</sup>

**第一項**  第二条改正前事件における釈明処分による電磁的記録の提出については、第二条改正後民事訴訟法第百五十一条第二項中「方法又は最高裁判所規則で定める電子情報処理組織を使用する方法」とあるのは「方法」として、同項の規定を適用する。
<sup>suppl-5041-48/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-13/par-1</sup>
With regard to the submission of an electronic or magnetic record by an order for clarification in cases before the Article 2 amendment, the provisions of Article 151, paragraph (2) of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment apply by deeming the phrase "submitting a recording medium that contains the electronic or magnetic record or by using an electronic data processing system as specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court" in that paragraph to be replaced with "submitting a recording medium that contains the electronic or magnetic record".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5041-48/art-13/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第百五十一条第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第百五十一条第二項 (Article 151, paragraph (2)), art-151/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-151/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-151/par-2

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## 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-20261017T235501-008, 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
