# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百十六条 (Article 216) - 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: 第二百十六条 (Article 216)（証人尋問の規定の準用） — address `art-216` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-216 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-216 - 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. --- ### 第二百十六条（証人尋問の規定の準用） — (Mutatis Mutandis Application of Provisions on the Examination of Witnesses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-216 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-216 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-216 **第一項** 第百九十一条の規定は公務員又は公務員であった者に鑑定人として職務上の秘密について意見を述べさせる場合について、第百九十七条から第百九十九条までの規定は鑑定人が鑑定を拒む場合について、第二百一条第一項の規定は鑑定人に宣誓をさせる場合について、第百九十二条及び第百九十三条の規定は鑑定人が正当な理由なく出頭しない場合、鑑定人が宣誓を拒む場合及び鑑定拒絶を理由がないとする裁判が確定した後に鑑定人が正当な理由なく鑑定を拒む場合について準用する。 art-216/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-216/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-216/par-1 The provisions of Article 191 apply mutatis mutandis if the court has a public officer or person who was a public officer state an opinion as an expert with regard to any confidential information in connection with that person's duties, the provisions of Articles 197 through 199 apply mutatis mutandis if an expert refuses to give expert testimony, the provisions of Article 201, paragraph (1) applies mutatis mutandis if the court has an expert swear under oath, and the provisions of Articles 192 and 193 apply mutatis mutandis if an expert fails to appear without a legitimate reason for failing to do so, if an expert refuses to swear under oath, and if, after a judicial decision finding no grounds for refusal to give expert testimony has become final and binding, the expert still refuses to give expert testimony, without a legitimate reason for refusing to do so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-216/par-1: 第百九十一条 → 民事訴訟法 第百九十一条 (Article 191), art-191 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-191 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-191 - art-216/par-1: 第百九十七条から第百九十九条まで → 民事訴訟法 第百九十七条 (Article 197), art-197 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-197 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-197 - art-216/par-1: 第百九十七条から第百九十九条まで → 民事訴訟法 第百九十八条 (Article 198), art-198 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-198 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-198 - art-216/par-1: 第百九十七条から第百九十九条まで → 民事訴訟法 第百九十九条 (Article 199), art-199 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-199 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-199 - art-216/par-1: 第二百一条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百一条第一項 (Article 201, paragraph (1)), art-201/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-201/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-201/par-1 - art-216/par-1: 第百九十二条 → 民事訴訟法 第百九十二条 (Article 192), art-192 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-192 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-192 - art-216/par-1: 第百九十三条 → 民事訴訟法 第百九十三条 (Article 193), art-193 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-193 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-193 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働審判法 第十七条第二項（証拠調べ等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-tribunal-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000045/art-17/par-2 --- ## 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