# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百九十七条 (Article 397) - 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: 第三百九十七条 (Article 397)（電子情報処理組織による支払督促の申立て） — address `art-397` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-397 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-397 - 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. --- ### 第三百九十七条（電子情報処理組織による支払督促の申立て） — (Applying for a Demand for Payment Using Electronic Date Processing Systems) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-397 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-397 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-397 **第一項** この章の規定による督促手続を取り扱う裁判所として最高裁判所規則で定める簡易裁判所（次条第一項及び第三百九十九条において「指定簡易裁判所」という。）の裁判所書記官に対しては、第三百八十三条の規定による場合のほか、同条に規定する簡易裁判所が別に最高裁判所規則で定める簡易裁判所である場合にも、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する方法により支払督促の申立てをすることができる。 art-397/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-397/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-397/par-1 A means of using an electronic data processing system specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court may be used as provided by the Rules of the Supreme Court to file an application for a demand for payment with the court clerk of a summary court specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court as a court that handles demand procedures under the provisions of this Chapter (referred to as a "designated summary court" in Article 398, paragraph (1) and Article 399), not only in a case as prescribed in Article 383, but also if the summary court prescribed in that Article is a summary court separately provided for by the Rules of the Supreme Court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-397/par-1: 次条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第三百九十八条第一項 (Article 398, paragraph (1)), art-398/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-398/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-398/par-1 - art-397/par-1: 第三百九十九条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百九十九条 (Article 399), art-399 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-399 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-399 - art-397/par-1: 第三百八十三条 → 民事訴訟法 第三百八十三条 (Article 383), art-383 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-383 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-383 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第三十三条第二項第三号（執行文付与の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-33/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-33/par-2/item-3 - 民事訴訟法 第三百九十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-398/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-398/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