Article 23Priority of Claims Secured by Provisional Registrations Made on or before the Statutory Due Date for Tax Payment, etc.

①Where a provisional registration or provisional recording based on a contract for establishment of security interest by use of provisional registration prescribed in Article 1 (Purpose) of the Act on Contract for Establishment of Security Interests by Use of Provisional Registration (Act No. 78 of 1978) (hereinafter referred to as a "provisional registration for security") has been made, on or before the statutory due date for tax payment, etc. of national tax, on a taxpayer's property with the taxpayer as the person obliged to register (including a person obliged to record), that national tax is collected from the proceeds of realization next after the claim secured by that provisional registration for security.

②Where, on a taxpayer's property for which a provisional registration for security has been made, there is a statutory lien listed in the items of Article 19, paragraph (1) (Priority of Statutory Liens for Preservation of Real Property, etc.), or there has been, since on or before the statutory due date for tax payment, etc. of national tax, a statutory lien listed in the items of Article 20, paragraph (1) (Priority of Statutory Liens for Lease of Real Property, etc. Existing on or before the Statutory Due Date for Tax Payment, etc.), or a pledge or mortgage has been established or a provisional registration for security has been made on or before the statutory due date for tax payment, etc. of the national tax, that national tax is collected, from the proceeds of realization relating to the settlement money prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) (Settlement Money) of the Act on Contract for Establishment of Security Interests by Use of Provisional Registration (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 20 (Application Mutatis Mutandis to Contracts Whose Object Is a Right Other Than Ownership of Land, etc.) of that Act), next after the claims secured by those statutory liens, pledges and mortgages whose rights have been exercised under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) (Subrogation) of that Act (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 20 of that Act), and by the subsequent provisional registrations for security prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) of that Act whose rights have been exercised under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 4, paragraph (2) of that Act (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 20 of that Act).

③The provisions of Article 17, paragraph (1) (Priority of Pledges or Mortgages Created before Acquisition) apply mutatis mutandis where a taxpayer has acquired property on which a provisional registration for security has been made, and the provisions of the preceding Article (excluding paragraph (3)) apply mutatis mutandis where a taxpayer who does not have other sufficient property to appropriate to national tax has transferred property on which the taxpayer made a provisional registration for security after the statutory due date for tax payment, etc. of that national tax, respectively.

④A provisional registration and a provisional recording based on a contract for establishment of security interest by use of provisional registration prescribed in Article 1 of the Act on Contract for Establishment of Security Interests by Use of Provisional Registration, under which the monetary obligation to be extinguished is not specified at the time of the contract, have no effect in the delinquent tax collection procedure for national tax.