# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百九条 (Article 109) - Law: 民事訴訟法 (Code of Civil Procedure), 平成八年法律第百九号 - English title "Code of Civil Procedure": 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: 第百九条 (Article 109)（電磁的記録に記録された事項を出力した書面による送達） — address `art-109` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-109 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-109 - 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. --- ### 第百九条（電磁的記録に記録された事項を出力した書面による送達） — (Effecting Service Using Paper Documents onto Which the Information Contained in Electronic or Magnetic Records Has Been Output) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-109 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-109 **第一項** 電磁的記録の送達は、特別の定めがある場合を除き、前款の定めるところにより、この法律その他の法令の規定によりファイルに記録された送達すべき電磁的記録（以下この節において単に「送達すべき電磁的記録」という。）に記録されている事項を出力することにより作成した書面によってする。 art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-109/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-109/par-1 Except as otherwise provided, it is permissible to serve an electronic or magnetic record using a paper document prepared by outputting the information recorded in the record to be served which has been recorded in the court's computer files pursuant to the provisions of this Act or any other laws and regulations (simply referred to below as the "record to be served" in this Section), as provided for in the preceding Subsection. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-2 - 民事訴訟法 第百九条の二第一項（電子情報処理組織による送達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-109-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-109-2/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第百十一条第一項第二号（公示送達の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-111/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-111/par-1/item-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百五十六条第三項第一号（変更の判決） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-256/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-256/par-3/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/408AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Civil Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4797/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17