# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第二十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 27) - 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: 第二十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 27)（検討） — address `suppl-4081-109/art-27` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-27 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-27 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4081-109/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-27 **第一項** 新法第二百二十条第四号に規定する公務員又は公務員であった者がその職務に関し保管し、又は所持する文書を対象とする文書提出命令の制度については、行政機関の保有する情報を公開するための制度に関して行われている検討と並行して、総合的な検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-1 With regard to the system of orders to submit a document that covers a document that a public officer or a person who was a public officer keeps or possesses in connection with their duties, as prescribed in Article 220, item (iv) of the New Act, a comprehensive review is to be conducted, in parallel with the review being conducted concerning the system for disclosing information held by administrative organs, and necessary measures are to be taken based on the results. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の措置は、新法の公布後二年を目途として、講ずるものとする。 suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-2 The measures referred to in the preceding paragraph are to be taken with two years after the promulgation of the New Act as the target. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-2: 前項 → 民事訴訟法 附則第二十七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 27, paragraph (1)), suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-1/par-1 - 民事訴訟法 附則第二十七条第二項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-27/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-003, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 民事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17