# 人事訴訟法 / Personal Status Litigation Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)

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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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4161-104/art-1`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4161-104/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4161-104/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
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<sup>suppl-4161-104/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4161-104/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4161-104/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、平成十六年十月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、それぞれ当該各号に定める日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on October 1, 2004; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items:
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  **一から五まで**  略
  <sup>suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1/item-1-to-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1/item-1-to-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1/item-1-to-5</sup>
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  **六**  第五条、第十二条、第十九条、第二十条の二、第二十三条の二、第二十五条、第三十条、第三十三条、第四十四条、第四十四条の三から第四十四条の五まで、第四十七条及び第五十三条並びに附則第四十一条から第四十六条まで、第四十八条及び第五十五条の規定　平成十九年四月一日
  <sup>suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1/item-6</sup>
  the provisions of Article 5, Article 12, Article 19, Article 20-2, Article 23-2, Article 25, Article 30, Article 33, Article 44, Article 44-3 through Article 44-5, Article 47 and Article 53, and Article 41 through Article 46, Article 48 and Article 55 of the Supplementary Provisions: April 1, 2007;
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## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 人事訴訟法 附則第七十三条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-status-litigation-act/suppl-4161-104/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000109/suppl-4161-104/art-73/par-1

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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-20261102T174633-003, translated 2026-11-03
- This site's parser, version 223 — 人事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02
