# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第十六条の三 (Article 16-3)

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- Law: 人事訴訟法 (Personal Status Litigation Act), 平成十五年法律第百九号
- English title "Personal Status Litigation 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: 第十六条の三 (Article 16-3)（公示送達の方法） — address `art-16-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-16-3
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### 第十六条の三（公示送達の方法） — Method of Service by Public Notice
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-16-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-16-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-16-3</sup>

  **第一項**  人事訴訟に関する手続における公示送達は、裁判所書記官が送達すべき書類を保管し、いつでも送達を受けるべき者に交付すべき旨を裁判所の掲示場に掲示してする。
  <sup>art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-16-3/par-1</sup>
  Service by public notice in personal status litigation proceedings is made by the court clerk keeping the documents to be served and posting, on the court's bulletin board, a notice to the effect that the documents will be delivered to the person to be served at any time.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 人事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000109/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-02
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Personal Status Litigation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-status-litigation-act-20261102T174633-001, translated 2026-11-03
- This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02