# 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 — 第二十九条 (Article 29)

- 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29) — address `art-29`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-29
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-29
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### 第二十九条
<sup>art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-29</sup>

**第一項**  保護命令（前条において読み替えて準用する第十条第一項から第四項まで及び第十条の二の規定によるものを含む。第三十一条において同じ。）に違反した者は、二年以下の拘禁刑又は二百万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-29/par-1</sup>
A person who violates a protection order (including those under the provisions of Article 10, paragraphs (1) through (4) and Article 10-2 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding Article following the deemed replacement of terms; the same applies in Article 31) is punished by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine of not more than 2,000,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-29/par-1: 前条 → 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 第二十八条の二 (Article 28-2), art-28-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-28-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-28-2
- art-29/par-1: 第十条第一項から第四項まで → 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 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-10/par-1
- art-29/par-1: 第十条第一項から第四項まで → 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 第十条第二項 (Article 10, paragraph (2)), art-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-10/par-2
- art-29/par-1: 第十条第一項から第四項まで → 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 第十条第三項 (Article 10, paragraph (3)), art-10/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-10/par-3
- art-29/par-1: 第十条第一項から第四項まで → 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 第十条第四項 (Article 10, paragraph (4)), art-10/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-10/par-4
- art-29/par-1: 第十条の二 → 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 (Article 10-2), art-10-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-10-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-10-2
- art-29/par-1: 第三十一条 → 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 第三十一条 (Article 31), art-31 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-31

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch spousal-violence-act-20261010T231659-001, translated 2026-10-11
- 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
