# 家事事件手続法 / Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — 第二十一節 (Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 21) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-21. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 家事事件手続法 (Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act), 平成二十三年法律第五十二号 - English title "Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act": 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: 第二十一節 (Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 21) — address `pt-2/ch-2/sec-21` - Text: the text as amended with effect from 2027-06-23 (On a day set by Cabinet Order, no later than 23 June 2027 — the amending law allows up to one year from promulgation. The exact day is not fixed yet.), standing until 2028-06-12 as now scheduled, since the next amendment's day is not fixed — NOT yet in force (revision 20270623_508AC0000000045) - URL (this text's page, at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-21 - The same address in the text in force (its wording there may differ): https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/pt-2/ch-2/sec-21 - Every provision below carries its address and its place on this text's page 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. 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The Ministry's English is given only where this text's Japanese is a wording the Ministry translated — the same as the text in force, or for a text not yet in force, a wording it translated ahead; every other paragraph's English is machine translation. --- ## 第二十一節　性同一性障害者の性別の取扱いの特例に関する法律に規定する審判事件 — Section 21 Adjudication Cases Prescribed in the Act on Special Cases in Handling Gender Status for Persons with Gender Identity Disorder heading: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System pt-2/ch-2/sec-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-21 ### 第二百三十二条 art-232 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-21#art-232 **第一項** 性別の取扱いの変更の審判事件（別表第一の百二十六の項の事項についての審判事件をいう。次項において同じ。）は、申立人の住所地を管轄する家庭裁判所の管轄に属する。 art-232/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-21#art-232/par-1 An adjudication case for a change in the handling of gender (meaning an adjudication case regarding the matters set forth in Appended Table 1, row (126); the same applies in the following paragraph) is subject to the jurisdiction of the family court which has jurisdiction over the place of domicile of the petitioner. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百十八条の規定は、性別の取扱いの変更の審判事件における申立人について準用する。 art-232/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-21#art-232/par-2 The provisions of Article 118 apply mutatis mutandis to a petitioner in an adjudication case for the change in handling of gender. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Article 118 applies mutatis mutandis to a petitioner in an adjudication case for the change in handling of gender." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb **第三項** 性別の取扱いの変更の申立てをした者は、その申立てを却下する審判に対し、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-232/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-21#art-232/par-3 A person who has filed a petition for a change in the handling of gender may file an immediate appeal against a ruling to dismiss the petition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-232/par-1: 別表第一 → 家事事件手続法 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/appdx-1 - art-232/par-1: 次項 → 家事事件手続法 第二百三十二条第二項 (Article 232, paragraph (2)), art-232/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-21#art-232/par-2 - art-232/par-2: 第百十八条 → 家事事件手続法 第百十八条 (Article 118), art-118 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/domestic-relations-case-procedure-act/amendments/20270623_508AC0000000045/text/pt-2/ch-2/sec-1/from-art-117#art-118 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 家事事件手続法 — the text as 令和八年法律第四十五号 leaves it, from a date not yet fixed (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/423AC0000000052/20270623_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act (家事事件手続法), Article 232, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4512/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 225 — 家事事件手続法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05