Civil Enforcement Act

A person who falls under either of the following items is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than one million yen:

a person who has damaged a written public notice or any other sign (excluding the seal or the mark of seizure prescribed in Article 96 of the Penal Code) posted by a court enforcement officer for giving public notice based on an order under Article 55, paragraph (1) (limited to the portion related to item (i)), Article 68-2, paragraph (1) or Article 77, paragraph (1) (limited to the portion related to item (i)) (including the cases where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 121 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 189 (including the cases that are to be governed by that rules pursuant to the provisions of Article 195)) and Article 188 (including the cases that are to be governed by those rules pursuant to the provisions of Article 195)) or Article 187, paragraph (1) (including the cases that are to be governed by that rules pursuant to the provisions of Article 195); or

a person who has damaged a written public notice or any other sign posted by a court enforcement officer for giving public notice pursuant to the provisions of Article 168-2, paragraph (3) or (4).

A person who falls under either of the following items is punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than five hundred thousand yen:

a person who has failed to appear or refused to make a statement or has made a false statement, without justifiable grounds, on the date of interrogation on which the person is summoned by the enforcement court regarding an order on the standard sales price

a person who has failed to make a statement or refused to present a document or has made a false statement or presented a document containing a false statement, without justifiable grounds, in response to a question or a request for submission of a document from a court enforcement officer provided in Article 57, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 121 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 189 (including the cases that are to be governed by the rules pursuant to the provisions of Article 195)) and Article 188 (including the cases that are to be governed by the rules pursuant to the provisions of Article 195))

a person who made a false statement with regards to the matters to be stated pursuant to Article 65-2 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 188 (including the cases that are to be governed by the rules pursuant to the provisions of Article 195));

an obligor or a third party possessing the immovable property or a residence prescribed in Article 168, paragraph (2) who has failed to make a statement or refused to present a document or has made a false statement or presented a document containing a false statement, without justifiable grounds, in response to a question or a request for submission of a document from a court enforcement officer under that paragraph;

a person who failed to appear on the asset disclosure date on which the person is summoned by an enforcement court without justifiable grounds or refused to swear under oath on the asset disclosure date;

a person who is obliged to disclose who has sworn under oath on the asset disclosure date pursuant to Article 201, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure which applies mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 199, paragraph (7) and who failed to make a statement or made a false statement with regards to the matters to be stated pursuant to Article 199, paragraphs (1) through (4) without justifiable grounds.

When a possessor of immovable property (excluding any fixtures on land that are not registrable; the same applies in this paragraph) whose title to possession may not be duly asserted against the attaching obligee, the obligee effecting a provisional seizure or the person whose right will be extinguished pursuant to the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 188 (including the cases that are to be governed by the rules pursuant to the provisions of Article 195)) has, without justifiable grounds, refused or obstructed entry to immovable property under Article 64-2, paragraph (5) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 188 (including the cases that are to be governed by those rules pursuant to the provisions of Article 195)), this person is punished by a fine of not more than three hundred thousand yen.

A person who has, in violation of the provisions of Article 202, used or provided the information referred to in that Article for a purpose other than the purpose prescribed in that Article is punished by a non-penal fine of not more than three hundred thousand yen.

The same applies to a person who has, in violation of the provisions of Article 210, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of that Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 167-17, paragraph (5) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 193, paragraph (2))), used or provided the information referred to in these provisions for a purpose other than the purpose prescribed in these provisions.

A case on the non-penal fine prescribed in the preceding Article is under the jurisdiction of the enforcement court.