# 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 / Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims — 第十四条 (Article 14) - Law: 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 (Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims), 平成十三年法律第三十一号 - English title "Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims": 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: 第十四条 (Article 14)（保護命令事件の審理の方法） — address `art-14` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-14 - 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. --- ### 第十四条（保護命令事件の審理の方法） — (Proceedings for Protection Order Cases) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-14 **第一項** 保護命令は、口頭弁論又は相手方が立ち会うことができる審尋の期日を経なければ、これを発することができない。ただし、その期日を経ることにより保護命令の申立ての目的を達することができない事情があるときは、この限りでない。 art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-14/par-1 A protection order may not be issued before a date for oral arguments or for a hearing which the opposite party can attend; however, this does not apply when circumstances are such that waiting until that date would prevent the purpose of the petition for the protection order from being achieved. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 申立書に第十二条第一項第五号イからニまで又は同条第二項第三号イからニまでに掲げる事項の記載がある場合には、裁判所は、当該配偶者暴力相談支援センター又は当該所属官署の長に対し、申立人が相談し、又は援助若しくは保護を求めた際の状況及びこれに対して執られた措置の内容を記載した書面の提出を求めるものとする。この場合において、当該配偶者暴力相談支援センター又は当該所属官署の長は、これに速やかに応ずるものとする。 art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-14/par-2 When a written petition contains the matters set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1), items (v), (a) through (d) or Article 12, paragraph (2), items (iii), (a) through (d), the court is to request the chief of the relevant spousal violence counseling and support center or police station to submit a document stating the circumstances at the time when the petitioner received counseling or requested assistance or protection, as well as the details of the measures taken in response. In this case, the chief of the relevant spousal violence counseling and support center or police station is to respond promptly. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 裁判所は、必要があると認める場合には、前項の配偶者暴力相談支援センター若しくは所属官署の長又は申立人から相談を受け、若しくは援助若しくは保護を求められた職員に対し、同項の規定により書面の提出を求めた事項に関して更に説明を求めることができる。 art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-14/par-3 If the court finds it necessary to do so, it may ask the chief of the spousal violence counseling and support center or police station referred to in the preceding paragraph or the personnel from whom the petitioner received counseling or requested assistance or protection to further explain the matters for which the court requested the submission of documents pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-14/par-2: 第十二条第一項第五号 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第十二条第一項第五号 (Article 12, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-12/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-12/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-12/par-1/item-5 - art-14/par-2: 同条第二項第三号 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第十二条第二項第三号 (Article 12, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-12/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-12/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-12/par-2/item-3 - art-14/par-3: 前項 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第十四条第二項 (Article 14, paragraph (2)), art-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-14/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第十四条第三項（保護命令事件の審理の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-14/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0100000031/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4476/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10