# 民事訴訟法 / Code of Civil Procedure — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（電磁的記録に記録された情報の内容に係る証拠調べに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5041-48/art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（電磁的記録に記録された情報の内容に係る証拠調べに関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Examinations of Evidence That Involve the Content of Information Recorded in Electronic or Magnetic Records caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5041-48/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-16 **第一項** 第二条改正前事件における電磁的記録に記録された情報の内容に係る証拠調べについては、第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百三十一条の二第二項中「方法又は最高裁判所規則で定める電子情報処理組織を使用する方法」とあるのは「方法」と、第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百三十一条の三第二項中「若しくは送付し、又は最高裁判所規則で定める電子情報処理組織を使用する」とあるのは「又は送付する」として、第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百三十一条の二及び第二百三十一条の三の規定を適用する。 suppl-5041-48/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/suppl-5041-48/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/suppl-5041-48/art-16/par-1 With regard to examinations of evidence that involve the content of information recorded in electronic or magnetic records in cases before the Article 2 amendment, the provisions of Article 231-2 and Article 231-3 of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment apply by deeming the phrase "submitting a recording medium on which the electronic or magnetic record has been recorded or by using an electronic data processing system as specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court" in Article 231-2, paragraph (2) of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment to be replaced with "submitting a recording medium on which the electronic or magnetic record has been recorded", and the phrase "submitting or sending a recording medium on which the electronic or magnetic record has been stored or by using an electronic data processing system as specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court" in Article 231-3, paragraph (2) of the Code of Civil Procedure After the Article 2 Amendment to be replaced with "submitting or sending a recording medium on which the electronic or magnetic record has been stored". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5041-48/art-16/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百三十一条の二第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百三十一条の二第二項 (Article 231-2, paragraph (2)), art-231-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-2/par-2 - suppl-5041-48/art-16/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百三十一条の三第二項 → 民事訴訟法 第二百三十一条の三第二項 (Article 231-3, paragraph (2)), art-231-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-3/par-2 - suppl-5041-48/art-16/par-1: 第二条改正後民事訴訟法第二百三十一条の二 → 民事訴訟法 第二百三十一条の二 (Article 231-2), art-231-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-2 - suppl-5041-48/art-16/par-1: 第二百三十一条の三 → 民事訴訟法 第二百三十一条の三 (Article 231-3), art-231-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-231-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-231-3 --- ## 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-20261017T235501-008, translated 2026-10-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-civil-procedure-20261017T235501-009, 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