# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-23. 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（検察官の関与） — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（検察官の関与） — (Participation of Public Prosecutors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-23 **第一項** 人事訴訟においては、裁判所又は受命裁判官若しくは受託裁判官は、必要があると認めるときは、検察官を期日に立ち会わせて事件につき意見を述べさせることができる。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-23/par-1 In personal status litigation, the court or an authorized judge or commissioned judge may have the public prosecutor attend on a court date and state an opinion on the case if they find this to be necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 検察官は、前項の規定により期日に立ち会う場合には、事実を主張し、又は証拠の申出をすることができる。 art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-23/par-2 If the public prosecutor attends on a court date pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, they may assert facts or offer evidence. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23/par-2: 前項 → 人事訴訟法 第二十三条第一項 (Article 23, paragraph (1)), art-23/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-23/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 人事訴訟法 第二十三条第二項（検察官の関与） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/art-23/par-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 220 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02