# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2)

- Law: 民事執行法 (Civil Enforcement Act), 昭和五十四年法律第四号
- English title "Civil Enforcement 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: 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2)（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — address `art-19-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2
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### 第十九条の二（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — Filing Motions or Statements Through Electronic Data Processing Systems
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<sup>art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2</sup>

**第一項**  民事執行の手続における申立てその他の申述（以下この条において「申立て等」という。）のうち、当該申立て等に関するこの法律その他の法令の規定により書面等（書面、書類、文書、謄本、抄本、正本、副本、複本その他文字、図形等人の知覚によつて認識することができる情報が記載された紙その他の有体物をいう。次項及び第四項において同じ。）をもつてするものとされているものであつて、最高裁判所の定める裁判所に対してするもの（当該裁判所の裁判長、受命裁判官、受託裁判官又は裁判所書記官に対してするものを含む。）については、当該法令の規定にかかわらず、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、電子情報処理組織（裁判所の使用に係る電子計算機（入出力装置を含む。以下同じ。）と申立て等をする者の使用に係る電子計算機とを電気通信回線で接続した電子情報処理組織をいう。）を用いてすることができる。
<sup>art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-1</sup>
A petition or other statement in a civil enforcement procedure (referred to as a "motion or statement" in this Article) that, pursuant to the provisions of this Act or other laws and regulations concerning the motion or statement, is to be made through a document or other tangible medium (meaning a document, transcript, extract, authenticated copy, or duplicate of a document, duplicate of a bill or note, or any other paper or other tangible object into which information that can be perceived with the human senses, as characters and shapes, has been entered; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (4)), and that is made to a court specified by the Supreme Court (including one made to that court's presiding judge, authorized judge, commissioned judge, or court clerk), may be made, notwithstanding the provisions of those laws and regulations, by using an electronic data processing system (meaning an electronic data processing system connecting a computer (including input and output devices; the same applies below) used by the court to a computer used by the person making the motion or statement via a telecommunications line) pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Supreme Court.
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**第二項**  前項の規定によりされた申立て等については、当該申立て等を書面等をもつてするものとして規定した申立て等に関する法令の規定に規定する書面等をもつてされたものとみなして、当該申立て等に関する法令の規定を適用する。
<sup>art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-2</sup>
With regard to a motion or statement made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of laws and regulations concerning the motion or statement are applied by deeming it to have been made through the document or other tangible medium prescribed in the provisions of the laws and regulations concerning the motion or statement that prescribe that the motion or statement is to be made through a document or other tangible medium.
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**第三項**  第一項の規定によりされた申立て等は、同項の裁判所の使用に係る電子計算機に備えられたファイルへの記録がされた時に、当該裁判所に到達したものとみなす。
<sup>art-19-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-3</sup>
A motion or statement made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) is deemed to have reached the court referred to in that paragraph at the time when it is recorded in a file stored on the computer used by that court.
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**第四項**  第一項の場合において、当該申立て等に関する他の法令の規定により署名等（署名、記名、押印その他氏名又は名称を書面等に記載することをいう。以下この項において同じ。）をすることとされているものについては、当該申立て等をする者は、当該法令の規定にかかわらず、当該署名等に代えて、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、氏名又は名称を明らかにする措置を講じなければならない。
<sup>art-19-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-4</sup>
In the case referred to in paragraph (1), with regard to a motion or statement for which a signature, etc. (meaning signing, printing one's name, affixing one's seal, or otherwise stating one's name or trade name in a document or other tangible medium; the same applies below in this paragraph) is to be made pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations concerning the motion or statement, the person making the motion or statement must, notwithstanding the provisions of those laws and regulations, take measures to make clear the person's name or trade name in lieu of the signature, etc., pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Supreme Court.
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**第五項**  第一項の規定によりされた申立て等が第三項に規定するファイルに記録されたときは、第一項の裁判所は、当該ファイルに記録された情報の内容を書面に出力しなければならない。
<sup>art-19-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-5</sup>
When a motion or statement made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) has been recorded in the file prescribed in paragraph (3), the court referred to in paragraph (1) must output the details of the information recorded in the file in the form of a document.
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**第六項**  第一項の規定によりされた申立て等に係るこの法律その他の法令の規定による事件の記録の閲覧若しくは謄写又はその正本、謄本若しくは抄本の交付は、前項の書面をもつてするものとする。当該申立て等に係る書類の送達又は送付も、同様とする。
<sup>art-19-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-6</sup>
The inspection or copying of the case record, or the issuance of an authenticated copy, transcript, or extract of it, under the provisions of this Act or other laws and regulations in relation to a motion or statement made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), is to be made by means of the document referred to in the preceding paragraph. The same applies to the service or sending of documents relating to the motion or statement.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-19-2/par-1: この条 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2), art-19-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2
- art-19-2/par-1: 次項 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二第二項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (2)), art-19-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-2
- art-19-2/par-1: 第四項 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二第四項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (4)), art-19-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-4
- art-19-2/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二第一項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (1)), art-19-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-1
- art-19-2/par-3: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二第一項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (1)), art-19-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-1
- art-19-2/par-4: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二第一項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (1)), art-19-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-1
- art-19-2/par-4: この項 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二第四項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (4)), art-19-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-4
- art-19-2/par-5: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二第一項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (1)), art-19-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-1
- art-19-2/par-5: 第三項 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二第三項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (3)), art-19-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-3
- art-19-2/par-6: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二第一項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (1)), art-19-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-1
- art-19-2/par-6: 前項 → 民事執行法 第十九条の二第五項 (Article 19-2, paragraph (5)), art-19-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-5

## Cited by

8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民事執行法 第十九条の二第一項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-1
- 民事執行法 第十九条の二第二項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-2
- 民事執行法 第十九条の二第三項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-3
- 民事執行法 第十九条の二第四項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-4
- 民事執行法 第十九条の二第五項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-5
- 民事執行法 第十九条の二第六項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-19-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-19-2/par-6
- 民事執行法 第二十一条の二第三項（家庭裁判所における執行関係訴訟手続に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-21-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-21-2/par-3
- 民事執行法 附則第五条第一項（特例執行文付与申立事件に適用する規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-3541-4/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-3541-4/art-5/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事執行法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/354AC0000000004/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-enforcement-act-20261019T093630-001, translated 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch civil-enforcement-act-20261019T093630-001, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19
