# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第九十六条 (Article 96) - 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: 第九十六条 (Article 96)（期間の伸縮及び付加期間） — address `art-96` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-96 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-96 - 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. --- ### 第九十六条（期間の伸縮及び付加期間） — (Extension and Shortening of a Time Frame and Additional Time Frames) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-96 **第一項** 裁判所は、法定の期間又はその定めた期間を伸長し、又は短縮することができる。ただし、不変期間については、この限りでない。 art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-96/par-1 The court may extend or shorten a statutory time frame or a time frame that it has specified; provided, however, that this does not apply to an inalterable time frame. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 不変期間については、裁判所は、遠隔の地に住所又は居所を有する者のために付加期間を定めることができる。 art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-96/par-2 If a time frame is inalterable, the court may establish an additional time frame for a person that is domiciled or resides in a distant location. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 第九十七条第二項（訴訟行為の追完） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-97/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