# 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)（訴訟に関する事項の証明に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5041-48/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-5041-48/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/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（訴訟に関する事項の証明に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Certification of Information Concerning Litigation caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5041-48/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-5 **第一項** 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第九十一条の三（第二条改正後民事訴訟法第百三十二条の七において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、第二条改正後事件に関する事項の証明について適用し、訴えに係る事件であって施行日前に提起されたもの（施行日前にされた訴え以外の申立てについて、施行日以後に当該申立てに係る法令の規定により当該申立て時に訴えの提起があったものとみなされるものを含む。以下同じ。）及び施行日前に開始された民事訴訟に関する事件（訴えに係る事件を除く。）（以下「第二条改正前事件」と総称する。）に関する事項の証明については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5041-48/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-5/par-1 The provisions of Article 91-3 of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 132-7 of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment) apply to certification of information concerning cases after the Article 2 amendment, and the provisions then in force continue to govern certification of information concerning cases pertaining to an action that were filed before the Effective Date (including cases in which, with regard to a petition other than an action made before the Effective Date, the filing of an action is deemed, under the provisions of laws and regulations pertaining to that petition on or after the Effective Date, to have been made at the time of that petition; the same applies below) and cases pertaining to civil litigation that commenced before the Effective Date (excluding cases pertaining to an action) (collectively referred to below as "cases before the Article 2 amendment"). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5041-48/art-5/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第九十一条の三 → 民事訴訟法 第九十一条の三 (Article 91-3), art-91-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-91-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-91-3 - suppl-5041-48/art-5/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第百三十二条の七 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の七 (Article 132-7), art-132-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-7 ## 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-20261017T235501-008, 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