①An obligee who has filed an opposition to distribution or an obligor who has filed an opposition to distribution against an obligee who does not have an authenticated copy of an enforceable title of obligation must file an action to oppose distribution.

②The action referred to in the preceding paragraph is under the jurisdiction of the enforcement court.

③The action referred to in paragraph (1) must be denied if the plaintiff fails to appear on the first date of oral argument, except when the plaintiff fails to appear based on grounds not attributable to them.

④In a judgment on the action referred to in paragraph (1), the distribution list must be changed, or the distribution list must be rescinded for the preparation of a new distribution list.

⑤An obligor who has filed an opposition to distribution against an obligee who has an authenticated copy of an enforceable title of obligation must file an action to dispute a claim or the action referred to in Article 117, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure.

⑥The filing of an opposition to distribution is deemed to have been withdrawn if the obligee or the obligor who has filed it fails to prove to the enforcement court that they have filed the action referred to in paragraph (1), or fails to prove that they have filed the action referred to in the preceding paragraph and to submit an authenticated copy or certificate of recorded information of a judicial decision to stay enforcement in connection with that action, within one week (or, if the purchaser is to pay money pursuant to the proviso to Article 78, paragraph (4), within two weeks) from the distribution date (or, for the filing of an opposition to distribution against a holder of a mortgage instrument who is not known, the day on which that holder became known).

①If any of the following grounds exist for the claim of an obligee who is to receive distribution or payment, the court clerk must make a statutory deposit of money equivalent to the amount of the distribution or payment:

②The court clerk must make a statutory deposit of money equivalent to the amount of distribution or payment for any obligee who failed to appear to the enforcement court to receive distribution or payment (including any unknown holder of mortgage instruments).

①If a statutory deposit has been made under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and the grounds for that statutory deposit have extinguished, the enforcement court must implement distribution or payment of the deposit money.

②If distribution is to be implemented pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and it is no longer possible to implement distribution to an obligee connected with a statutory deposit based on the grounds stated in items (i) through (v) of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, or to an obligee effecting a provisional seizure or an attaching obligee subject to a stay of enforcement connected with a statutory deposit based on the grounds stated in item (vi) of that paragraph, or if an obligee connected with a statutory deposit based on the grounds stated in item (vii) of that paragraph has been defeated in an action to oppose distribution filed by the obligor, the enforcement court must also change the distribution list for obligees who did not file an opposition to distribution.

③If a statutory deposit is made under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and the grounds for that statutory deposit have been extinguished, an obligee connected with that statutory deposit (when a statutory deposit is made for the reasons provided in item (vi) of that paragraph, an obligee effecting a provisional seizure or obligee effecting a seizure subject to a stay of enforcement; the same applies in this Article) must immediately notify the enforcement court to that effect.

④If a statutory deposit is made under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and two years have passed from the day when the statutory deposit is made (when notification is provided stating that the grounds for the statutory deposit have not been extinguished pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph, then the day that the last notification is provided) without the provision of the notification under the preceding paragraph, enforcement court must demand that, if the grounds for the statutory deposit have been extinguished, obligees connected with the statutory deposit provide notification to that effect, and if the grounds for the statutory deposit have not been extinguished, that those obliges provide notification to that effect.

⑤If an obligee connected to a statutory deposit who received demand under the preceding paragraph does not provide notification under paragraph (3) or does not provide notification stating that the grounds for the statutory deposit have not been extinguished under the preceding paragraph within two weeks from the day that the demand is received, the enforcement court may make a decision that a distribution or payment is implemented in relation to the statutory deposit pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) excluding the obligee connected to the statutory deposit.

⑥A decision specified in the preceding paragraph becomes effective on the day when an inalterable period of one week passes from the day that the obligee connected to the relevant statutory deposit received the notification; provided, however, that this does not apply when the obligee connected to the relevant statutory deposit submits notification provided in paragraph (3) or notification that the grounds for the statutory deposit have not been extinguished provided in paragraph (4) before the inalterable period passes.

⑦When an obligee connected to a statutory deposit provides notification to the enforcement court stating that the grounds for the statutory deposit have not been extinguished before the period prescribed in paragraph (4) passes, notification stating that the grounds for the statutory deposit have not been extinguished is deemed to have been received under that paragraph regarding application of the provisions of that paragraph.

①An enforcement court must, to commence a forced administration procedure, issue a commencement order for forced administration and in it, declare that immovable property be seized for the obligee and prohibit the obligor from disposing earnings and, if the obligor has a claim for a rent or any other right to seek delivery related to earnings from the immovable property (referred to as a "delivery claim" below), order the person who has the obligation to make that delivery to the obligor (referred to as the "person obligated to deliver" below) to deliver the subject matter of the delivery to the administrator.

②The earnings referred to in the preceding paragraph are natural fruits to be harvested on a later date and civil fruits that are already due and will be due on a later date.

③The commencement order referred to in paragraph (1) must be served upon the obligor and any person obligated to deliver.

④The commencement order referred to in paragraph (1) becomes effective against a person obligated to deliver when the commencement order is served upon that person obligated to deliver.

⑤An appeal may be filed against a judicial decision on a petition for forced administration.

If a commencement order for a forced administration has already been issued, or if a petition for a forced administration is filed for immovable property for which a commencement order for enforcement against earnings from secured immovable property has been issued provided in Article 180, item (ii), the enforcement court is to issue another commencement order for forced administration.

A court clerk must, upon servicing a commencement order for forced administration upon a person obligated to deliver, make a demand to the person obligated to deliver to state the presence or absence of any order of seizure or disposition of seizure against the delivery claim and any other matters specified by the Rules of the Supreme Court within two weeks from the day of service of the commencement order. In this case, the provisions of Article 147, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis.

①When a commencement order for forced administration has become effective against a person obligated to deliver pursuant to the provisions of Article 93, paragraph (4), the effects of any order of seizure or disposition of seizure against the delivery claim, which is already effective, are suspended; provided, however, that this not applies to cases where the commencement order for forced administration becomes effective against the person obligated to deliver after the times stated in the items of Article 165 (including the cases where the provisions of the items of Article 165 (excluding item (iii) and item (iv)) are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 167-14, paragraph (1) and the cases where they are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 193, paragraph (2)).

②When a commencement order for forced administration has become effective against a person obligated to deliver pursuant to the provisions of Article 93, paragraph (4), the effects of any order of provisional seizure against the delivery claim, which is already effective, are suspended.

③The obligee in the order of seizure or disposition of seizure referred to in paragraph (1), an obligee who made a distribution demand in the procedure of enforcement against a claim (meaning the enforcement against a claim prescribed in Article 143) or enforcement against a claim arising from a small claims action (meaning enforcement against a claim arising from a small claims action as prescribed in Article 167-2, paragraph (2)) by the time of suspension of the effects of the order of seizure or disposition of seizure referred to in paragraph (1), and the obligee in the order of provisional seizure referred to in the preceding paragraph may receive distribution or payment in the forced administration procedure referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 107, paragraph (4).

①An enforcement court must appoint an administrator simultaneously with the issuance of a commencement order for forced administration.

②A trust company (meaning a person who obtained the license referred to in Article 3 or Article 53, paragraph (1) of the Trust Business Act (Act No. 154 of 2004)), a bank, or any other corporation may become an administrator.

①An administrator may conduct administration, collect earnings and conduct a realization regarding the immovable property for which a commencement order for forced administration has been issued.

②An administrator must, to lease immovable property beyond the period specified in Article 602 of the Civil Code, obtain the consent of the obligor.

③When there are several administrators, they perform their duties jointly; provided, however, that they may divide the duties among them by obtaining the permission of the enforcement court.

④When there are several administrators, it is sufficient for a third party to manifest their intention to any one of them.

①An administrator may remove immovable property from the obligor's possession and take possession of it.

②In the cases of the preceding paragraph, if an administrator finds it to be necessary to open a closed door, the administrator may request assistance from a court enforcement officer.

③The provisions of Article 57, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to a court enforcement officer who has been requested to provide assistance pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.