# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第百九十一条 (Article 191) - 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: 第百九十一条 (Article 191)（公務員の尋問） — address `art-191` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-191 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-191 - 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. --- ### 第百九十一条（公務員の尋問） — (Examination of a Public Officer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-191 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-191 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-191 **第一項** 公務員又は公務員であった者を証人として職務上の秘密について尋問する場合には、裁判所は、当該監督官庁（衆議院若しくは参議院の議員又はその職にあった者についてはその院、内閣総理大臣その他の国務大臣又はその職にあった者については内閣）の承認を得なければならない。 art-191/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-191/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-191/par-1 Before the court examines a public officer or a person who was a public officer as a witness with regard to any confidential information connected with that person's duties, it must obtain the approval of the relevant supervisory government agency (in the case of a member of the House of Representatives or House of Councillors or a person who held the office, the relevant House; in the case of the Prime Minister or any other Minister of State or a person who held such a position, the Cabinet). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の承認は、公共の利益を害し、又は公務の遂行に著しい支障を生ずるおそれがある場合を除き、拒むことができない。 art-191/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-191/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-191/par-2 A supervisory government agency may not refuse to give the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph, unless giving it would be against the public interest or would be likely to substantially hinder the performance of a public duty. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-191/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第百九十一条第一項 (Article 191, paragraph (1)), art-191/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-191/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-191/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第百九十一条第二項（公務員の尋問） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-191/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-191/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第百九十七条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-197/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-197/par-1/item-1 - 民事訴訟法 第二百十六条第一項（証人尋問の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-216/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-216/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