# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（人事訴訟における訴訟能力等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4151-109/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/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（人事訴訟における訴訟能力等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Capacity to Sue or Be Sued, etc. in Personal Status Litigation caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4151-109/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-5 **第一項** 新法の施行の際現に係属している人事訴訟における訴訟行為につき行為能力の制限を受けた者の申立てによる訴訟代理人の選任については、第十三条第二項の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4151-109/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-5/par-1 With regard to the appointment of counsel upon petition by a person with limited capacity to engage in procedural acts in personal status litigation that is pending at the time the New Act comes into force, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding Article 13, paragraph (2). machine translation, not official **第二項** 新法の施行前に提起された成年被後見人を原告又は被告とする人事に関する訴えに係る訴訟については、第十四条の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4151-109/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4151-109/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4151-109/art-5/par-2 With regard to litigation concerning a personal status action in which an adult ward is the plaintiff or defendant that was filed before the New Act comes into force, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding Article 14. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4151-109/art-5/par-1: 第十三条第二項 → 人事訴訟法 第十三条第二項 (Article 13, paragraph (2)), art-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-13/par-2 - suppl-4151-109/art-5/par-2: 第十四条 → 人事訴訟法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-status-litigation-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-14 --- ## 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-20261102T174633-003, translated 2026-11-03 - 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