# 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 — 第十八条 (Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（退去等命令の再度の申立て） — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-18 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十八条（退去等命令の再度の申立て） — (Subsequent Petition for Eviction Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-18 **第一項** 退去等命令が発せられた後に当該発せられた退去等命令の申立ての理由となった身体に対する暴力又は生命等に対する脅迫と同一の事実を理由とする退去等命令の再度の申立てがあったときは、裁判所は、配偶者と共に生活の本拠としている住居から転居しようとする被害者がその責めに帰することのできない事由により当該発せられた命令の期間までに当該住居からの転居を完了することができないことその他の退去等命令を再度発する必要があると認めるべき事情があるときに限り、退去等命令を発するものとする。ただし、当該退去等命令を発することにより当該配偶者の生活に特に著しい支障を生ずると認めるときは、当該退去等命令を発しないことができる。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-18/par-1 When an eviction order has been issued and a subsequent petition is filed for an eviction order on the same grounds of physical violence or life-threatening intimidation, etc. as for the petition for the issued eviction order, the court is to issue the subsequent eviction order only where the victim who intends to move from the residence where the victim and spouse share a principal place of daily activity is unable to complete the move within the term of the issued order due to grounds not attributable to the victim, or where there are other circumstances that cause the court to find it necessary to issue another eviction order; however, the court may choose not to issue the eviction order if it finds that issuing the eviction order would cause extreme hindrance to the spouse's daily life. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の申立てをする場合における第十二条の規定の適用については、同条第二項各号列記以外の部分中「事項」とあるのは「事項及び第十八条第一項本文の事情」と、同項第三号中「事項に」とあるのは「事項及び第十八条第一項本文の事情に」と、同条第三項中「事項に」とあるのは「事項並びに第十八条第一項本文の事情に」とする。 art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-18/par-2 With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 12 to cases of filing a subsequent petition referred to in the preceding paragraph, the term "matters" in the main clause in the parts other than the items of Article 12, paragraph (2) is deemed replaced with "matters and the circumstances referred to in the main clause of Article 18, paragraph (1)", "the matters" in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (iii) is deemed to be replaced with "the matters and the circumstances referred to in the main clause of Article 18, paragraph (1)", and " the matters" in Article 12, paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "the matters and the circumstances referred to in the main clause of Article 18, paragraph (1)". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18/par-2: 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 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-18/par-1 - art-18/par-2: 第十二条 → 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 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-12 - art-18/par-2: 同条第二項 → 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 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-12/par-2 - art-18/par-2: 同項第三号 → 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-18/par-2: 同条第三項 → 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 第十二条第三項 (Article 12, paragraph (3)), art-12/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-12/par-3 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite 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 第十条の二第一項（退去等命令） — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-10-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-10-2/par-1 - 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 第十八条第二項（退去等命令の再度の申立て） — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-18/par-2 - 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 第二十八条の二第一項（この法律の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-28-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-28-2/par-1 - 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 第三十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-31/par-1 - 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 附則第二条第三項（保護命令事件に係る経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/suppl-5051-30/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/suppl-5051-30/art-2/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