# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第十六条の二 (Article 16-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-16-2. 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: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号 - English title "Personal Status Litigation 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: 第十六条の二 (Article 16-2)（期日の呼出し） — address `art-16-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-16-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-16-2 - 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. --- ### 第十六条の二（期日の呼出し） — Summons for Appearance Dates caption: machine translation, not official art-16-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-16-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-16-2 **第一項** 人事訴訟に関する手続における期日の呼出しは、呼出状の送達、当該事件について出頭した者に対する期日の告知その他相当と認める方法によってする。 art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-16-2/par-1 A summons for an appearance date in personal status litigation proceedings is made through the service of a writ of summons, an announcement of the date to a person who has appeared in connection with the case in question, or any other method found to be appropriate. machine translation, not official **第二項** 呼出状の送達及び当該事件について出頭した者に対する期日の告知以外の方法による期日の呼出しをしたときは、期日に出頭しない者に対し、法律上の制裁その他期日の不遵守による不利益を帰することができない。ただし、その者が期日の呼出しを受けた旨を記載した書面を提出したときは、この限りでない。 art-16-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-16-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-16-2/par-2 If a summons for an appearance date is made other than through the service of a writ of summons or an announcement of the date to a person who has appeared in connection with the case in question, no legal sanction or other disadvantage may be attributed to a person who does not appear on that date; however, this does not apply if the relevant person has submitted a document stating that the person has received a summons for the appearance date. machine translation, not official --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-status-litigation-act-20261102T174633-001, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02