Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No. 106
December 24, 2021
The Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China, which has been adopted at the 32nd session of the 13th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on December 24, 2021, is hereby promulgated and shall come into effect from January 1, 2022.
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
(Adopted at the 32nd session of the 13th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on December 24, 2021)
It is decided at 32nd session of the 13th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress that the following revisions shall be made to the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China:
I. One article shall be added as Article 16, reading: "Subject to consent by the parties concerned, a civil proceeding may be conducted online through an information platform.
"Where any civil proceeding is conducted online through an information platform, it shall have the same legal effect as a civil proceeding conducted on site."
II. Article 39 shall be revised to Article 40, of which Paragraph 2 shall be revised to read: "Civil cases to which the summary procedure is applied shall be tried by a single judge alone. For a civil case of first instance tried by a basic people's court in which the basic facts are clear and the relationship of rights and obligations is evident, it may be tried by a single judge alone by applying the ordinary procedure."
III. Article 40 shall be revised to Article 41, and one paragraph shall be added as Paragraph 2, reading: "For a civil case of second instance, under which the first instance has been concluded by an intermediate people's court based on the summary procedure, or for which an appeal is brought up due to dissatisfaction with the ruling, if there are clear basic facts and the relationship of rights and obligations is evident, subject to consent by the parties, such case may be tried by a single judge alone."
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Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No. 106
December 24, 2021
The Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China, which has been adopted at the 32nd session of the 13th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on December 24, 2021, is hereby promulgated and shall come into effect from January 1, 2022.
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
(Adopted at the 32nd session of the 13th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on December 24, 2021)
It is decided at 32nd session of the 13th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress that the following revisions shall be made to the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China:
I. One article shall be added as Article 16, reading: "Subject to consent by the parties concerned, a civil proceeding may be conducted online through an information platform.
"Where any civil proceeding is conducted online through an information platform, it shall have the same legal effect as a civil proceeding conducted on site."
II. Article 39 shall be revised to Article 40, of which Paragraph 2 shall be revised to read: "Civil cases to which the summary procedure is applied shall be tried by a single judge alone. For a civil case of first instance tried by a basic people's court in which the basic facts are clear and the relationship of rights and obligations is evident, it may be tried by a single judge alone by applying the ordinary procedure."
III. Article 40 shall be revised to Article 41, and one paragraph shall be added as Paragraph 2, reading: "For a civil case of second instance, under which the first instance has been concluded by an intermediate people's court based on the summary procedure, or for which an appeal is brought up due to dissatisfaction with the ruling, if there are clear basic facts and the relationship of rights and obligations is evident, subject to consent by the parties, such case may be tried by a single judge alone."
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