# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第九十七条 (Article 97) - 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: 第九十七条 (Article 97)（訴訟行為の追完） — address `art-97` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-97 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-97 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条（訴訟行為の追完） — (Subsequent Completion of Procedural Acts) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-97 **第一項** 当事者が裁判所の使用に係る電子計算機の故障その他その責めに帰することができない事由により不変期間を遵守することができなかった場合には、その事由が消滅した後一週間以内に限り、不変期間内にすべき訴訟行為の追完をすることができる。ただし、外国に在る当事者については、この期間は、二月とする。 art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-97/par-1 If a party is unable to observe an inalterable time frame due to the failure of a computer used by the court or other grounds not attributable to the party, the party may complete the procedural act that was to be performed within the inalterable time frame, within one week after those grounds cease to exist; provided, however, that a party in a foreign country may complete the procedural act within two months' time after those grounds cease to exist. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の期間については、前条第一項本文の規定は、適用しない。 art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-97/par-2 The provisions of the main clause of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article do not apply to the time frame stated in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-97/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-97/par-1 - art-97/par-2: 前条第一項 → 民事訴訟法 第九十六条第一項 (Article 96, paragraph (1)), 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 ## 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