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Civil Enforcement Act

民事執行法(みんじしっこうほう)

Section 2 Judicial Enforcement of Claims for Payment of Money (Articles 167-6 to 167-12)

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Article 167-6第百六十七条の六

Prepayment of Expenses(費用の予納等)
Article 167-6, paragraph (1)

To apply the provisions of Article 14, paragraphs (1) and (4) to enforcement against a claim arising from a small claims action, the term "enforcement court" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with "court clerk."

少額訴訟債権執行についての第十四条第一項及び第四項の規定の適用については、これらの規定中「執行裁判所」とあるのは、「裁判所書記官」とする。

Article 167-6, paragraph (2)

The provisions of Article 14, paragraphs (2) and (3) do not apply to a disposition by a court clerk under paragraph (1) of that Article as applied pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph by replacing the terms.

第十四条第二項及び第三項の規定は、前項の規定により読み替えて適用する同条第一項の規定による裁判所書記官の処分については、適用しない。

Article 167-6, paragraph (3)

A person must file an objection to a court clerk's disposition under Article 14, paragraph (4) as applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) following a replacement of terms within an inalterable period of one week from the day on which the person is notified of that measure.

第一項の規定により読み替えて適用する第十四条第四項の規定による裁判所書記官の処分に対する執行異議の申立ては、その告知を受けた日から一週間の不変期間内にしなければならない。

Article 167-6, paragraph (4)

An appeal may be filed against a judicial decision to deny the objection to an enforcement measure referred to in the preceding paragraph.

前項の執行異議の申立てを却下する裁判に対しては、執行抗告をすることができる。

Article 167-6, paragraph (5)

A measure by a court clerk to cancel the procedures for enforcement against a claim arising from a small claims action pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) by replacing the terms is not effective until it becomes final and binding.

第一項の規定により読み替えて適用する第十四条第四項の規定により少額訴訟債権執行の手続を取り消す旨の裁判所書記官の処分は、確定しなければその効力を生じない。

Article 167-7第百六十七条の七

Court with Jurisdiction over a Third Party Action Opposing Enforcement(第三者異議の訴えの管轄裁判所)
Article 167-7, paragraph (1)

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (3), a third-party action opposing enforcement in which the third-party asks the court not to permit enforcement against a claim arising from a small claims action is under the jurisdiction of the district court having jurisdiction in the locality of the enforcement court.

少額訴訟債権執行の不許を求める第三者異議の訴えは、第三十八条第三項の規定にかかわらず、執行裁判所の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所が管轄する。

Article 167-8第百六十七条の八

Change in the Scope of Seizure-Prohibited Claims(差押禁止債権の範囲の変更)
Article 167-8, paragraph (1)

An enforcement court may, upon petition, order voidance of all or part of a disposition of seizure or order that a disposition of seizure be made for the portion of a monetary claim of which seizure is prohibited pursuant to the provisions of Article 152 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 167-14, paragraph (1), taking into consideration the living conditions of the obligor and the obligee and any other circumstances.

執行裁判所は、申立てにより、債務者及び債権者の生活の状況その他の事情を考慮して、差押処分の全部若しくは一部を取り消し、又は第百六十七条の十四第一項において準用する第百五十二条の規定により差し押さえてはならない金銭債権の部分について差押処分をすべき旨を命ずることができる。

Article 167-8, paragraph (2)

When there has been a change in circumstances, an enforcement court may, upon petition, order that a disposition of seizure be made for a monetary claim for which a disposition of seizure had been voided pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph or void all or part of a disposition of seizure that has been made provided in that paragraph.

事情の変更があつたときは、執行裁判所は、申立てにより、前項の規定により差押処分が取り消された金銭債権について差押処分をすべき旨を命じ、又は同項の規定によりされた差押処分の全部若しくは一部を取り消すことができる。

Article 167-8, paragraph (3)

The provisions of Article 153, paragraphs (3) through (5) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the petition referred to in the preceding two paragraphs has been filed. In this case, the term "an order of seizure" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a disposition of seizure."

第百五十三条第三項から第五項までの規定は、前二項の申立てがあつた場合について準用する。この場合において、同条第四項中「差押命令」とあるのは、「差押処分」と読み替えるものとする。

Article 167-9第百六十七条の九

Distribution Demand(配当要求)
1 change in this article
Article 167-9, paragraph (1)(配当要求)(Distribution Demand)Changed

An obligee who hashaving an authenticated copy of an enforceable title of obligation and an obligee who has proved by a document that the obligee has a statutory lien based on a document or electronic or magnetic record may make a distribution demand for distribution to a court clerk.

執行力のある債務名義の正本を有する債権者及び文書又は電磁的記録により先取特権を有することを証明した債権者は、裁判所書記官に対し、配当要求をすることができる。

Article 167-9, paragraph (2)(配当要求)

The provisions of Article 154, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the distribution referred to in the preceding paragraph has been made.

第百五十四条第二項の規定は、前項の配当要求があつた場合について準用する。

Article 167-9, paragraph (3)(配当要求)

A person must file an objection to a court clerk's disposition denying the distribution demand referred to in paragraph (1) within an inalterable period of one week from the day on which the person is notified of that measure.

第一項の配当要求を却下する旨の裁判所書記官の処分に対する執行異議の申立ては、その告知を受けた日から一週間の不変期間内にしなければならない。

Article 167-9, paragraph (4)(配当要求)

An appeal may be filed against a judicial decision to deny the objection to an enforcement measure referred to in the preceding paragraph.

前項の執行異議の申立てを却下する裁判に対しては、執行抗告をすることができる。

Article 167-10第百六十七条の十

Transfer for Seeking an Assignment Order(転付命令等のための移行)
Article 167-10, paragraph (1)

If an attaching obligee seeks an assignment order, a transfer order, etc., or a statutory deposit order (referred to as an "order for realizing a claim" in this Article) in connection with the monetary claim subject to seizure, by clarifying which one of the order for realizing a claim the obligee seeks, the obligee must file a petition with the enforcement court seeking transfer of the case to the procedure of enforcement against a claim.

差押えに係る金銭債権について転付命令、譲渡命令等又は供託命令(以下この条において「転付命令等」という。)のいずれかの命令を求めようとするときは、差押債権者は、執行裁判所に対し、転付命令等のうちいずれの命令を求めるかを明らかにして、債権執行の手続に事件を移行させることを求める旨の申立てをしなければならない。

Article 167-10, paragraph (2)

When the court has received a petition as referred to in the preceding paragraph in which the obligee has clarified the type of order prescribed in that paragraph, the enforcement court must move the case into the procedures for enforcing claims at the district court having jurisdiction in the locality of the enforcement court.

前項に規定する命令の種別を明らかにしてされた同項の申立てがあつたときは、執行裁判所は、その所在地を管轄する地方裁判所における債権執行の手続に事件を移行させなければならない。

Article 167-10, paragraph (3)

If, before the order under the preceding paragraph became effective, an objection is filed to an enforcement measure that had already been taken or an appeal is filed against an enforcement decision that had already been made, the order does not become effective until the judicial decision on the objection or appeal becomes final and binding.

前項の規定による決定が効力を生ずる前に、既にされた執行処分について執行異議の申立て又は執行抗告があつたときは、当該決定は、当該執行異議の申立て又は執行抗告についての裁判が確定するまでは、その効力を生じない。

Article 167-10, paragraph (4)

No appeal may be entered against an order under paragraph (2).

第二項の規定による決定に対しては、不服を申し立てることができない。

Article 167-10, paragraph (5)

An appeal may be filed against an order to deny the petition referred to in paragraph (1).

第一項の申立てを却下する決定に対しては、執行抗告をすることができる。

Article 167-10, paragraph (6)

Once an order under paragraph (2) becomes effective, the petition for an order of seizure is deemed to have been filed with the district court prescribed in paragraph (2) at the time the petition for a disposition of seizure is filed or the petition for an order for realizing a claim is deemed to have been filed with that district court at the time the petition referred to in paragraph (1) is filed, and any enforcement measure or other relevant act already taken is deemed to have been taken in the procedures for enforcement against a claim.

第二項の規定による決定が効力を生じたときは、差押処分の申立て又は第一項の申立てがあつた時に第二項に規定する地方裁判所にそれぞれ差押命令の申立て又は転付命令等の申立てがあつたものとみなし、既にされた執行処分その他の行為は債権執行の手続においてされた執行処分その他の行為とみなす。

Article 167-11第百六十七条の十一

Transfer for Purposes of Distribution(配当等のための移行等)
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Article 167-11, paragraph (1)(配当等のための移行等)

If a statutory deposit has been made pursuant to the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 157, paragraph (5) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 167-14, paragraph (1), and distribution is to be implemented since there are two or more obligees and it is not possible to fully perform the claims and enforcement costs of the respective obligees with the deposit money, the enforcement court transfers its case to the procedure of enforcement against a claim at the district court having jurisdiction in the locality of the enforcement court.

第百六十七条の十四第一項において準用する第百五十六条第一項若しくは第二項又は第百五十七条第五項の規定により供託がされた場合において、債権者が二人以上であつて供託金で各債権者の債権及び執行費用の全部を弁済することができないため配当を実施すべきときは、執行裁判所は、その所在地を管轄する地方裁判所における債権執行の手続に事件を移行させなければならない。

Article 167-11, paragraph (2)(配当等のための移行等)

In the cases prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if another order of seizure or disposition of seizure has been made for the monetary claim subject to a seizure, the enforcement court may transfer its case to the procedure of enforcement against a claim at the enforcement court that has issued the order of seizure or at the district court having jurisdiction in the locality of the summary court to which the court clerk who has made that disposition of seizure belongs, in addition to the procedure of enforcement against a claim at the district court prescribed in that paragraph.

前項に規定する場合において、差押えに係る金銭債権について更に差押命令又は差押処分が発せられたときは、執行裁判所は、同項に規定する地方裁判所における債権執行の手続のほか、当該差押命令を発した執行裁判所又は当該差押処分をした裁判所書記官の所属する簡易裁判所の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所における債権執行の手続にも事件を移行させることができる。

Article 167-11, paragraph (3)(配当等のための移行等)(Transfer for Purposes of Distribution)Changed

If thea statutory deposit prescribed has been made provided in paragraph (1) has been made, and, if there is only one obligee, or if there are two or more obligees and it is possible to fully perform the claims and enforcement costs of the respective obligees with the deposit money, thea court clerk prepares a records an electronic statement of delivery of the deposit money, delivers (meaning an electronic or magnetic record prepared by the court clerk, pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Supreme Court, by recording the amount of the deposit money, the amounts of the principal of the claims, interest, and any other incidental claims of each obligee, the amount of the enforcement expenses, and the order and amounts of delivery of payment money to enable the obligees,payment money and surplus to be delivered) in a file, and delivers the payment money to the obligee and delivers any surplus to the obligor.

第一項に規定する供託がされた場合において、債権者が一人であるとき、又は債権者が二人以上であつて供託金で各債権者の債権及び執行費用の全部を弁済することができるときは、裁判所書記官は、供託金の電子交付計算書を作成(裁判所書記官が、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、弁済金及び剰余金を交付するために、供託金の額、各債権者の債権の元本及び利息その他の附帯の債権の額、執行費用の額並びに弁済金の交付の順位及び額を記録して作成する電磁的記録をいう。)をファイルに記録して、債権者に弁済金を交付し、剰余金を債務者に交付する。

Article 167-11, paragraph (4)(配当等のための移行等)

In the cases prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if another order of seizure has been issued for the monetary claim subject to a seizure, the enforcement court may transfer its case to the procedure of enforcement against a claim at the district court having jurisdiction in the locality of the enforcement court or at the enforcement court that has issued the order of seizure.

前項に規定する場合において、差押えに係る金銭債権について更に差押命令が発せられたときは、執行裁判所は、同項の規定にかかわらず、その所在地を管轄する地方裁判所又は当該差押命令を発した執行裁判所における債権執行の手続に事件を移行させることができる。

Article 167-11, paragraph (5)(配当等のための移行等)

If another order of seizure has been issued for the monetary claim subject to a seizure, if the enforcement court that has issued the order of seizure is to implement distribution or payment pursuant to the provisions of Article 109 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 161, paragraph (7) or pursuant to the provisions of Article 166, paragraph (1), item (ii), the earlier enforcement court transfers its case to the procedure of enforcement against a claim at the enforcement court that has issued the order of seizure.

差押えに係る金銭債権について更に差押命令が発せられた場合において、当該差押命令を発した執行裁判所が第百六十一条第七項において準用する第百九条の規定又は第百六十六条第一項第二号の規定により配当等を実施するときは、執行裁判所は、当該差押命令を発した執行裁判所における債権執行の手続に事件を移行させなければならない。

Article 167-11, paragraph (6)(配当等のための移行等)

No appeal may be entered against an order under paragraph (1), paragraph (2), paragraph (4) or the preceding paragraph.

第一項、第二項、第四項又は前項の規定による決定に対しては、不服を申し立てることができない。

Article 167-11, paragraph (7)(配当等のための移行等)(Transfer for Purposes of Distribution)Changed

The provisions of Article 84, paragraphs (34) and (45), Article 88, Article 91 (excluding paragraph (1), items (vi) and (vii)), and Article 92, paragraph (1) and paragraphs (3) through (7), and Article 166, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the procedure of delivery of payment money implemented by a court clerk pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to an order under paragraph (1), paragraph (2), paragraph (4) or paragraph (5), and the provisions of paragraph (6) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis to cases where an order under paragraph (1), paragraph (2), paragraph (4) or paragraph (5) has become effective, respectively. In this case, the term "order of seizure" in Article 166, paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "disposition of seizure".

第八十四条第三四項及び第四五項、第八十八条、第九十一条(第一項第六号及び第七号を除く。)、第九十二条第一項及び第三項から第七項まで並びに第百六十六条第三項の規定は第三項の規定により裁判所書記官が実施する弁済金の交付の手続について、前条第三項の規定は第一項、第二項、第四項又は第五項の規定による決定について、同条第六項の規定は第一項、第二項、第四項又は第五項の規定による決定が効力を生じた場合について、それぞれ準用する。この場合において、第百六十六条第三項中「差押命令」とあるのは、「差押処分」と読み替えるものとする。

Article 167-12第百六十七条の十二

Discretionary Transfer(裁量移行)
Article 167-12, paragraph (1)

An enforcement court may, when it finds it to be reasonable by taking into consideration the contents of the monetary claim to be seized and any other circumstances, transfer its case to the procedure of enforcement against a claim at the district court having jurisdiction in the locality of the enforcement court.

執行裁判所は、差し押さえるべき金銭債権の内容その他の事情を考慮して相当と認めるときは、その所在地を管轄する地方裁判所における債権執行の手続に事件を移行させることができる。

Article 167-12, paragraph (2)

No appeal may be entered against an order under the preceding paragraph.

前項の規定による決定に対しては、不服を申し立てることができない。

Article 167-12, paragraph (3)

The provisions of Article 167-10, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to an order under paragraph (1), and the provisions of paragraph (6) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis to cases where an order under paragraph (1) has become effective. In this case, the phrase "the petition for a disposition of seizure or the petition referred to in paragraph (1)" in paragraph (6) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the petition for a disposition of seizure," and the phrase "the petition for an order of seizure or the petition for an order for realizing a claim" in the paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the petition for an order of seizure."

第百六十七条の十第三項の規定は第一項の規定による決定について、同条第六項の規定は第一項の規定による決定が効力を生じた場合について準用する。この場合において、同条第六項中「差押処分の申立て又は第一項の申立て」とあるのは「差押処分の申立て」と、「それぞれ差押命令の申立て又は転付命令等の申立て」とあるのは「差押命令の申立て」と読み替えるものとする。

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