# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二百三十一条の二 (Article 231-2) - 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: 第二百三十一条の二 (Article 231-2)（電磁的記録に記録された情報の内容に係る証拠調べの申出） — address `art-231-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百三十一条の二（電磁的記録に記録された情報の内容に係る証拠調べの申出） — (Requesting the Court to Examine Evidence in Connection with the Content of Information Recorded in Electronic or Magnetic Records) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-231-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-2 **第一項** 電磁的記録に記録された情報の内容に係る証拠調べの申出は、当該電磁的記録を提出し、又は当該電磁的記録を利用する権限を有する者にその提出を命ずることを申し立ててしなければならない。 art-231-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-2/par-1 A person must file a request for the court to examine evidence in connection with the content of information recorded in an electronic or magnetic record while either submitting the electronic or magnetic record or petitioning the court to order the person with the authority to use that electronic or magnetic record to submit it. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による電磁的記録の提出は、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、電磁的記録を記録した記録媒体を提出する方法又は最高裁判所規則で定める電子情報処理組織を使用する方法により行う。 art-231-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-2/par-2 As provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court, a person must submit an electronic or magnetic record under the provisions of the preceding paragraph by submitting a recording medium on which the electronic or magnetic record has been recorded or by using an electronic data processing system as specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-231-2/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百三十一条の二第一項 (Article 231-2, paragraph (1)), art-231-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-2/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite 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 - 民事執行法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/appdx-1 - 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 第百七十条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-170/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百三十一条の二第二項（電磁的記録に記録された情報の内容に係る証拠調べの申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-2/par-2 - 民事訴訟法 第二百三十一条の三第一項（書証の規定の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-3/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 附則第十六条第一項（電磁的記録に記録された情報の内容に係る証拠調べに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-16/par-1 - 破産法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/appdx-1 - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第二十一条第一項（民事訴訟法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-21/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