# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百五十六条の二 (Article 156-2) - 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: 第百五十六条の二 (Article 156-2)（審理の計画が定められている場合の攻撃防御方法の提出期間） — address `art-156-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-156-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-156-2 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条の二（審理の計画が定められている場合の攻撃防御方法の提出期間） — (Time Frame for Presenting Allegations and Evidence When a Plan for Trial Has Been Set) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-156-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-156-2 **第一項** 第百四十七条の三第一項の審理の計画に従った訴訟手続の進行上必要があると認めるときは、裁判長は、当事者の意見を聴いて、特定の事項についての攻撃又は防御の方法を提出すべき期間を定めることができる。 art-156-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-156-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-156-2/par-1 If the presiding judge finds it to be necessary for the progress of litigation proceedings based on a plan for trial as referred to in Article 147-3, paragraph (1), the presiding judge may specify a time frame for presenting allegations and evidence on a specific matter, after hearing the opinions of the parties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-156-2/par-1: 第百四十七条の三第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百四十七条の三第一項 (Article 147-3, paragraph (1)), art-147-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-147-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-147-3/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第百五十七条の二第一項（審理の計画が定められている場合の攻撃防御方法の却下） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-157-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-157-2/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 第百七十条第五項（弁論準備手続における訴訟行為等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-170/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-170/par-5 --- ## 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