# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) - 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: 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9)（訴えに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4081-109/art-9` - 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-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条（訴えに関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Actions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4081-109/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-9 **第一項** 新法第百四十一条の規定は、新法の施行前に期日の呼出しに必要な費用の予納を命じた場合には、適用しない。 suppl-4081-109/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-9/par-1 The provisions of Article 141 of the New Act do not apply if an order to prepay the expenses necessary for summoning the parties to appear for a court date was issued before the New Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新法第百四十六条第一項ただし書（新法において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、管轄裁判所を定める合意に関する事項を除き、新法の施行前に提起された本訴に係る反訴の提起については、適用しない。 suppl-4081-109/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-9/par-2 The proviso to Article 146, paragraph (1) of the New Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis under the New Act) does not apply, except with regard to matters concerning an agreement establishing the court of jurisdiction, to the filing of a counterclaim relating to a principal action filed before the New Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事訴訟法 附則第二十六条第一項（最高裁判所規則への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4081-109/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4081-109/art-26/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-002, 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