# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第四十八条 (Article 48) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-48. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 家事事件手続法 (Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act), 平成二十三年法律第五十二号 - English title "Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act": 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（検察官に対する通知） — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（検察官に対する通知） — (Notice to Public Prosecutors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-48 **第一項** 裁判所その他の官庁、検察官又は吏員は、その職務上検察官の申立てにより審判をすべき場合が生じたことを知ったときは、管轄権を有する家庭裁判所に対応する検察庁の検察官にその旨を通知しなければならない。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-48/par-1 When a court or any other government agency, a public prosecutor or an official comes to know in the course of performing their duties that a case that should be adjudicated exists upon the petition of a public prosecutor, the entity or person must give notice to that effect to a public prosecutor of the public prosecutor's office corresponding to the family court which has jurisdiction over the case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 家事事件手続法 第八十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-84/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-84/par-2 - 家事事件手続法 第九十三条第一項（家事審判の手続の規定及び民事訴訟法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/art-93/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/423AC0000000052/art-93/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 家事事件手続法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/423AC0000000052/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05