# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4131-96` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4131-96 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4131-96 - 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. --- ## 附　則 平成一三年七月四日法律第九六号 suppl-4131-96 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4131-96 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4131-96 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して六月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。 suppl-4131-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4131-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4131-96/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official **第三項** 政府は、この法律の施行後三年を目途として、この法律による改正後の規定の実施状況並びに刑事事件に係る訴訟に関する書類及び少年の保護事件の記録並びにこれらの事件において押収されている文書（以下「刑事事件関係書類等」という。）の民事訴訟における利用状況等を勘案し、刑事事件関係書類等その他の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-4131-96/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-4131-96/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-4131-96/par-3 With a target of three years after this Act comes into effect, the government is to, taking into account the status of implementation of the provisions as amended by this Act, the status of use in civil litigation of documents related to the litigation of a criminal case, the case records in juvenile protective cases, and documents seized in these cases (referred to below as "criminal case documents, etc."), and other circumstances, conduct a review of the system of orders to submit a document concerning criminal case documents, etc. and other documents that a public officer or a person who was a public officer keeps or possesses in connection with their duties, and take necessary measures based on the results. machine translation, not official --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-004, 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