# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10)（認知の訴えに係る訴訟における訴訟手続の受継に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4151-109/art-10`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第十条（認知の訴えに係る訴訟における訴訟手続の受継に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Substitution in Court Proceedings in Litigation Concerning an Action for Filiation
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4151-109/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-10</sup>

**第一項**  新法の施行の際現に係属している認知の訴えに係る訴訟における新法の施行前に子が死亡した場合の第四十二条第三項の規定の適用については、同項中「子の死亡の日」とあるのは、「この法律の施行の日」とする。
<sup>suppl-4151-109/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-10/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of Article 42, paragraph (3) where a child dies before the New Act comes into force in litigation concerning an action for filiation that is pending at the time the New Act comes into force, the phrase "the day on which the child died" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the day on which this Act comes into force".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch personal-status-litigation-act-20261102T174633-003, translated 2026-11-03
- This site's parser, version 223 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02