# 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 / Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications — 第三十三条 (Article 33) - Law: 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 (Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications), 平成十三年法律第百三十七号 - English title "Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications": claude-opus-5-5 - 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33)（公示送達） — address `art-33` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33 - 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. --- ### 第三十三条（公示送達） — Service by Publication caption: machine translation, not official art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33 **第一項** 総務大臣は、次に掲げる場合には、公示送達をすることができる。 art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-1 The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications may effect service by publication in the following cases: machine translation, not official **一** 送達を受けるべき者の住所、居所その他送達をすべき場所が知れない場合 art-33/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-1/item-1 if the domicile or residence of the person to be served or the place where service is to be effected is unknown; machine translation, not official **二** 外国においてすべき送達について、前条において読み替えて準用する民事訴訟法第百八条の規定によることができず、又はこれによっても送達をすることができないと認めるべき場合 art-33/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-1/item-2 if it is found that, with regard to service to be effected in a foreign country, it is impossible to follow the provisions of Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis with the terms replaced pursuant to the preceding Article, or that service cannot be effected even by following those provisions; machine translation, not official **三** 前条において読み替えて準用する民事訴訟法第百八条の規定により外国の管轄官庁に嘱託を発した後六月を経過してもその送達を証する書面の送付がない場合 art-33/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-1/item-3 if six months have passed since a commission was issued to the competent government agency of a foreign country pursuant to the provisions of Article 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure as applied mutatis mutandis with the terms replaced pursuant to the preceding Article, and no document proving the service has been sent. machine translation, not official **第二項** 公示送達は、送達をすべき書類を送達を受けるべき者にいつでも交付すべき旨を総務省令で定める方法により不特定多数の者が閲覧することができる状態に置くとともに、その旨が記載された書面を総務省の掲示場に掲示し、又はその旨を総務省の事務所に設置した電子計算機の映像面に表示したものの閲覧をすることができる状態に置く措置をとることにより行う。 art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-2 Service by publication is carried out by taking measures to place in a state where it can be viewed by unspecified and numerous persons, by the method specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the effect that the documents to be served will be delivered to the person to be served at any time, and to place in a state where it can be viewed a document stating that effect posted on the bulletin board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, or that effect displayed on the screen of a computer installed at an office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. machine translation, not official **第三項** 公示送達は、前項の規定による措置を開始した日から二週間を経過することによって、その効力を生ずる。 art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-3 Service by publication takes effect upon the lapse of two weeks from the day on which the measures were commenced under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第四項** 外国においてすべき送達についてした公示送達にあっては、前項の期間は、六週間とする。 art-33/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-4 In the case of service by publication made in respect of service to be effected in a foreign country, the period referred to in the preceding paragraph is six weeks. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-33/par-1/item-2: 前条 → 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第三十二条 (Article 32), art-32 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-32 - art-33/par-1/item-2: 民事訴訟法第百八条 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第百八条 (Article 108), art-108 — not held in this collection - art-33/par-1/item-3: 前条 → 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第三十二条 (Article 32), art-32 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-32 - art-33/par-1/item-3: 民事訴訟法第百八条 → e-Gov law 408AC0000000109, 第百八条 (Article 108), art-108 — not held in this collection - art-33/par-3: 前項 → 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第三十三条第二項 (Article 33, paragraph (2)), art-33/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-2 - art-33/par-4: 前項 → 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第三十三条第三項 (Article 33, paragraph (3)), art-33/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第三十三条第三項（公示送達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-3 - 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 第三十三条第四項（公示送達） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/art-33/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-33/par-4 - 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 附則第三条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/information-distribution-platform-act/suppl-5061-25/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/suppl-5061-25/art-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-10-12 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0000000137/20260717_508AC1000000058), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch information-distribution-platform-act-20261011T162317-003, translated 2026-10-12 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch information-distribution-platform-act-20261011T162317-004, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11