# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（控訴期間等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5041-48/art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（控訴期間等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Time Frame for Filing an Appeal to the Court of Second Instance, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5041-48/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-20 **第一項** 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百八十五条（第二条改正後民事訴訟法第三百十三条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、訴えに係る事件であって施行日以後に提起されるものにおける判決に対する控訴期間又は上告期間について適用し、訴えに係る事件であって施行日前に提起されたものにおける判決に対する控訴期間又は上告期間については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5041-48/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-20/par-1 The provisions of Article 285 of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 313 of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment) apply to the time frame for filing an appeal to the court of second instance or a final appeal against a judgment in cases pertaining to an action that are filed on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the time frame for filing an appeal to the court of second instance or a final appeal against a judgment in cases pertaining to an action that were filed before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5041-48/art-20/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百八十五条 → 民事訴訟法 第二百八十五条 (Article 285), art-285 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-285 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-285 - suppl-5041-48/art-20/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第三百十三条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百十三条 (Article 313), art-313 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-313 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-313 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 附則第二条第一項（訴訟費用額の確定手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-2/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-20261017T235501-009, 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