# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第二十一条 (Article 21) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-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: 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（当事者本人の出頭命令等） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（当事者本人の出頭命令等） — (Ordering Parties to Appear) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-21 **第一項** 人事訴訟においては、裁判所は、当事者本人を尋問する場合には、その当事者に対し、期日に出頭することを命ずることができる。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-21/par-1 In personal status litigation, if the court will examine a party, the court may order the party to appear on a court date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 民事訴訟法第百九十二条から第百九十四条までの規定は、前項の規定により出頭を命じられた当事者が正当な理由なく出頭しない場合について準用する。 art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-21/par-2 The provisions of Articles 192 through 194 of the Code of Civil Procedure apply mutatis mutandis if a party ordered to appear pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph does not appear without a legitimate reason. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Articles 192 through 194 of the Code of Civil Procedure apply mutatis mutandis if a party ordered to appear pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph does not appear without a legitimate reason.." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb --- ## Cites - art-21/par-2: 民事訴訟法第百九十二条から第百九十四条まで → 民事訴訟法 第百九十二条 (Article 192), art-192 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-192 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-192 - art-21/par-2: 民事訴訟法第百九十二条から第百九十四条まで → 民事訴訟法 第百九十三条 (Article 193), art-193 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-193 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-193 - art-21/par-2: 民事訴訟法第百九十二条から第百九十四条まで → 民事訴訟法 第百九十四条 (Article 194), art-194 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/code-of-civil-procedure/art-194 · https://japanlaw.org/l/408AC0000000109/art-194 - art-21/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第二十一条第一項 (Article 21, paragraph (1)), art-21/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-21/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第二十一条第二項（当事者本人の出頭命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-21/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Personal Status Litigation Act, written 2026-11-03 - 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 (人事訴訟法), Article 21, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5166/tb), 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 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02