# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百三十二条の十 (Article 132-10) - 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: 第百三十二条の十 (Article 132-10)（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — address `art-132-10` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百三十二条の十（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — (Filing Motions and Statements Using an Electronic Data Processing System) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-132-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10 **第一項** 民事訴訟に関する手続における申立てその他の申述（以下「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っ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。以下この章において同じ。）をもってするものとされているものであって、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、最高裁判所規則で定める電子情報処理組織を使用して当該書面等に記載すべき事項をファイルに記録する方法により行うことができる。 art-132-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of this Code or other laws and regulations concerning a motion or statement that is part of proceedings for a civil action (referred to below as a "motion or statement"), a person may file a motion or statement that, pursuant to the provisions of those laws or regulations, is to be filed using a paper document (meaning using a paper document, piece of writing, written material, transcript, extract, authenticated copy, duplicate copy, extra copy, or other piece of paper or tangible object bearing characters, shapes, and other such information that can be perceived using the human senses; the same applies in this Chapter), and that the person is filing with the court (including one that a person is filing with the court's presiding judge, authorized judge, commissioned judge, or court clerk), by using an electronic data processing system as provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court pursuant to their Rules to record the information required to be stated in the paper document into the court's computer files. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の方法によりされた申立て等（以下この条において「電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等」という。）については、当該申立て等を書面等をもっ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ってされたものとみなして、当該法令その他の当該申立て等に関する法令の規定を適用する。 art-132-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-2 A motion or statement that has been filed by the means referred to in the preceding paragraph (referred to below as an "electronically filed motion or statement" in this Article) is deemed to have been filed using the paper document provided for in the provisions of laws and regulations concerning motions and statements which provide that the motion or statement in question is to be filed using a paper document; and the provisions of those laws and regulations and other laws and regulations concerning the motion or statement in question apply. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等は、当該電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等に係る事項がファイルに記録された時に、当該裁判所に到達したものとみなす。 art-132-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-3 An electronically filed motion or statement is deemed to arrive at the court when the information that it contains is recorded in the court's computer files. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **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。 art-132-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-4 Notwithstanding the provisions of other laws and regulations, in a case as referred to in paragraph (1), a person filing a motion or statement that they are to affix their name to (meaning to sign the paper document, print or stamp their name on it, affix their seal to it, or otherwise include their name or trade name in it; the same applies in this paragraph) pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations concerning that motion or statement, in lieu of affixing their name, must take measures to clarify their name or trade name, as provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等がされたときは、当該電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等に係る送達は、当該電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等に係る法令の規定にかかわらず、当該電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等によりファイルに記録された事項に係る電磁的記録の送達によってする。 art-132-10/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-5 Notwithstanding the provisions of laws and regulations that concern the electronically filed motion or statement in question, if a motion or statement has been filed electronically, the service of that motion or statement is effected by serving the relevant person with an electronic or magnetic record giving the information that has been recorded in the court's computer files through the electronic filing. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 前項の方法により行われた電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等に係る送達については、当該電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等に関する法令の規定に規定する送達の方法により行われたものとみなして、当該送達に関する法令その他の当該電子情報処理組織を使用する申立て等に関する法令の規定を適用する。 art-132-10/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-6 Service of an electronically filed motion or statement that has been effected by the means referred to in the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been effected by the means of service provided for in the provisions of laws and regulations that concern that electronically filed motion or statement, and the provisions of laws and regulations that concern that service and of other laws and regulations that concern that electronically filed motion or statement apply. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-132-10/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の十第一項 (Article 132-10, paragraph (1)), art-132-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-1 - art-132-10/par-2: この条 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の十 (Article 132-10), art-132-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10 - art-132-10/par-4: 第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の十第一項 (Article 132-10, paragraph (1)), art-132-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-1 - art-132-10/par-4: この項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の十第四項 (Article 132-10, paragraph (4)), art-132-10/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-4 - art-132-10/par-6: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の十第五項 (Article 132-10, paragraph (5)), art-132-10/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-5 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 附則第六条第二項（特例執行文付与申立事件に関する裁判所に対する電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-3541-4/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-3541-4/art-6/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の十第二項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の十第四項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-4 - 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の十第六項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-10/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-10/par-6 - 民事訴訟法 第百三十二条の十一第一項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-132-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-132-11/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 附則第十一条第一項（電子情報処理組織による申立て等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-11/par-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