# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第三百九十九条 (Article 399) - 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: 第三百九十九条 (Article 399)（電子情報処理組織による送達の効力発生の時期） — address `art-399` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-399 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-399 - 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. --- ### 第三百九十九条（電子情報処理組織による送達の効力発生の時期） — (When Service Using Electronic Data Processing Systems Takes Effect) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-399 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-399 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-399 **第一項** 第百九条の三の規定にかかわらず、送達を受けるべき債権者の同意があるときは、指定簡易裁判所の裁判所書記官に対してされた支払督促の申立てに係る督促手続に関する第百九条の二第一項の規定による送達は、同項の通知が当該債権者に対して発せられた時に、その効力を生ずる。 art-399/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-399/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-399/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 109-3, with the consent of the creditor that is to be served, service under the provisions of Article 109-2, paragraph (1) concerning demand procedures involving an application for a demand for payment that is filed with a court clerk of a designated summary court takes effect when a notice under that paragraph is sent to the creditor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-399/par-1: 第百九条の三 → 民事訴訟法 第百九条の三 (Article 109-3), art-109-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-109-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-109-3 - art-399/par-1: 第百九条の二第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第百九条の二第一項 (Article 109-2, paragraph (1)), art-109-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-109-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-109-2/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第三百九十七条第一項（電子情報処理組織による支払督促の申立て） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-397/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-397/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