# 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 — 第六章 (Chapter 6) - 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: 第六章 (Chapter 6) — address `ch-6` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/ch-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/ch-6 - 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. --- ## 第六章　罰則 — Chapter VI Penal Provisions heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ch-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/ch-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/ch-6 ### 第二十九条 art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-29 **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。 art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-29/par-1 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. machine translation, not official ### 第三十条 art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-30 **第一項** 第三条第五項又は第五条の三の規定に違反して秘密を漏らした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-30/par-1 A person who has divulged a secret in violation of Article 3, paragraph (5) or Article 5-3 is punished by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person who has divulged a secret in violation of Article 3, paragraph (5) or Article 5-3 is punished by imprisonment under the new Penal Code for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4476/tb ### 第三十一条 art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-31 **第一項** 第十二条第一項若しくは第二項（第十八条第二項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）又は第二十八条の二において読み替えて準用する第十二条第一項若しくは第二項（第二十八条の二において準用する第十八条第二項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）の規定により記載すべき事項について虚偽の記載のある申立書により保護命令の申立てをした者は、十万円以下の過料に処する。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-31/par-1 A person who has filed a petition for a protection order with a written petition containing false records with regard to matters to be stated pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1) or (2) (including when the provisions are applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (2)) or the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1) or (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 28-2 following the deemed replacement of terms (including when the provisions are applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis to Article 28-2) is punished by a civil fine of not more than 100,000 yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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 - art-30/par-1: 第三条第五項 → 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 第三条第五項 (Article 3, paragraph (5)), art-3/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-5 - art-30/par-1: 第五条の三 → 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 第五条の三 (Article 5-3), art-5-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-5-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-5-3 - art-31/par-1: 第十二条第一項 → 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 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-12/par-1 - art-31/par-1: 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-31/par-1: 第十八条第二項 → 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 第十八条第二項 (Article 18, paragraph (2)), art-18/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-18/par-2 - art-31/par-1: 第二十八条の二 → 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 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-11 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims (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), Article 30, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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