# 仲裁法 / Arbitration Act — 第五十一条 (Article 51) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-51. 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: 仲裁法 (Arbitration Act), 平成十五年法律第百三十八号 - English title "Arbitration 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51)（仲裁費用の予納） — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-51 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条（仲裁費用の予納） — (Prepayment of Arbitration Expenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-51 **第一項** 仲裁廷は、当事者間に別段の合意がない限り、仲裁手続の費用の概算額として仲裁廷の定める金額について、相当の期間を定めて、当事者に予納を命ずることができる。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-51/par-1 An arbitral tribunal may provide a reasonable period and order the parties to prepay the amount provided by the arbitral tribunal as the estimated amount of the expenses for the arbitration procedure, unless otherwise agreed by the parties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 仲裁廷は、前項の規定により予納を命じた場合において、その予納がないときは、当事者間に別段の合意がない限り、仲裁手続を中止し、又は終了することができる。 art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-51/par-2 If an arbitral tribunal ordered the prepayment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the prepayment has not been made, it may suspend or end the arbitral procedure, unless otherwise agreed by the parties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-51/par-2: 前項 → 仲裁法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-51/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 仲裁法 第五十一条第二項（仲裁費用の予納） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/arbitration-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-51/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 仲裁法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000138/20260521_504AC0000000048), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Arbitration Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4440/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - This site's parser, version 219 — 仲裁法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01