When an order of seizure against a claim secured by a registered statutory lien, pledge or mortgage has become effective, a court clerk must, upon petition, commission registration that that claim has been seized.

The effects of a seizure against a claim for a compensation or any other continuous performance extend to the performance to be received after the seizure, not exceeding the amount of the claim and enforcement costs of the attaching obligee.

①If the obligor has a claim for periodic payments with provisions on fixed due dates related to any of the following duties, if any part of the claim is in default, enforcement against a claim may be commenced even for the portion of that claim for periodic payments for which the fixed due date has yet to arrive, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 30, paragraph (1):

②In enforcement against a claim that has been commenced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, related to compensation or any other continuous performance it is possible to seize only the claim that becomes due after the arrival of the fixed due date of each claim for the periodic payments.

①In the case of either of the following claims, the portion equivalent to three-quarters of the performance to be received when the claim is due (or, if the amount exceeds the amount specified by a Cabinet Order by taking into account an average household's necessary living expenses, the portion equivalent to the amount specified by a Cabinet Order) must not be seized:

②In the case of a claim related to a retirement allowance or any remuneration similar in nature, the portion equivalent to three-quarters of its performance must not be seized.

③To apply the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs in the case of enforcing a monetary claim (meaning a claim for payment of money; the same applies below) related to any of the duties stated in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the term "three-quarters" in the preceding two paragraphs is deemed to be replaced with "a half."

①An enforcement court may, upon petition, order voiding all or part of an order of seizure or issue an order of seizure for the portion of a claim of which seizure is prohibited pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, taking into consideration the living conditions of the obligor and the obligee and any other circumstances.

②When there has been a change in circumstances, an enforcement court may, upon petition, seize a claim for which an order of seizure had been voided pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph or void all or part of an order of seizure under that paragraph.

③When the petition referred to in either of the preceding two paragraphs has been filed, an enforcement court may, until a judicial decision on the petition becomes effective, issue an order against the third party obligor prohibiting payment or any other performance, while requiring or not requiring provision of security.

④An appeal may be filed against an order to deny a petition for voiding an order of seizure under paragraph (1) or paragraph (2).

⑤No appeal may be entered against an order under paragraph (3).

①An obligee having 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 may make a distribution demand.

②When the distribution demand referred to in the preceding paragraph has been made, a document stating that fact must be served on the third party obligor.

③An appeal may be filed against a judicial decision to deny a distribution demand.

①An obligee who has a monetary claim seized may collect the claim when one week has passed from the day on which an order of seizure is served upon the obligor; provided, however, that they may not receive payment beyond the amount of the claim and enforcement costs of the attaching obligee.

②Regarding the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if a seized monetary claim is a claim stated in the items in Article 152, paragraph (1) or a claim under paragraph (2) of the Article (except if a monetary claim related to the obligation stated in the items of Article 151-2, paragraph (1) is included in a claim of the attaching obligee), "one week" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "four weeks".

③When an attaching obligee has received payment from a third party obligor, the obligee's claim and enforcement costs are deemed to have been performed to the extent of the amount that has been received.

④An attaching obligee must, when the obligee has received the payment referred to in the preceding paragraph, immediately notify the enforcement court to that effect.

⑤If two years have passed without receiving the payment of paragraph (3) from the date when it is permitted to collect a monetary claim pursuant to paragraph (1) (or the date when the notification is given last time if the notification is given under the preceding paragraph or this paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph), an attaching obligee must notify the enforcement court that the obligee has not received the payment of that paragraph.

⑥If an attaching obligee does not give notification under the preceding two paragraphs within four weeks after two years has passed from the date when it is permitted to collect a monetary claim pursuant to paragraph (1), the enforcement court may set aside the order of seizure.

⑦If an attaching obligee gives notification under paragraph (4) (except for the notification that the obligee received payment of all of the seized monetary claim) or paragraph (5) within an inalterable period of one week after the attaching obligee is notified of a judicial decision to set aside the order of seizure pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the decision ceases to be effective.

⑧If an attaching obligee gives notification to the enforcement court that the obligee does not receive the payment of paragraph (3) before a period under paragraph (5) has passed, regarding the application of the provisions of paragraph (5) and paragraph (6), it is deemed that the notification under paragraph (5) is given.

①A third party obligor may make a statutory deposit of money equivalent to the total amount of the monetary claim subject to a seizure (limited to a monetary claim seized based on an order of seizure; the same applies in this Article and Article 161-2) to an official depository at the place of performance of the obligation.

②A third party obligor must, by the time the obligor receives service of the complaint for the action prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article, make a statutory deposit, to an official depository at the place of performance of the obligation, of money equivalent to the total amount of the claim if the obligor has been served with an order of seizure, a disposition of seizure or an order of provisional seizure that has been issued beyond the unseized portion of the monetary claim subject to a seizure, or of money equivalent to the seized portion if the obligor has been served with a document stating that a distribution demand has been made.

③A third party obligor, when the obligor has received service of a statutory deposit order prescribed in the provisions of Article 161-2, paragraph (1), must make a statutory deposit of money equivalent to the total amount of the claim subject to a seizure to an official depository at the place of performance of the obligation.

④A third party obligor, when the obligor has made a statutory deposit under the preceding three paragraphs, must notify the enforcement court of the circumstances.

①When an attaching obligee has filed an action seeking performance of a seized claim (referred to as a "suit for collection" below) against a third party obligor, the court in charge of the case may, upon petition by the third party obligor, order any other obligee who has seized the claim by the time of the service of the complaint to intervene on the plaintiff's side as a co-litigants

②The court may render the judicial decision referred to in the preceding paragraph without hearing oral arguments.

③Effects of a judgment in a suit for collection extend even to any attaching obligees who had been ordered to intervene pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) but had failed to intervene.

④When upholding the plaintiff's claim in a suit for collection against a third party obligor who is obligated to make a statutory deposit pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) or (3) of the preceding Article, the court in charge of the case must include a statement that the payment of money for the claim should be made by the method of a statutory deposit in the main text of the judgment.

⑤When the plaintiff of the judgment prescribed in the preceding paragraph is to receive distribution or payment in judicial enforcement or an auction, a statutory deposit of money equivalent to the amount of the distribution or payment must be made.

An attaching obligee is liable to compensate an obligor for any damages resulting from a failure to enforce a seized claim.

①An enforcement court may, upon petition by the attaching obligee, issue an order to assign the seized monetary claim to the attaching obligee at face value in lieu of payment (referred to as an "assignment order" below).

②An assignment order must be served upon the obligor and the third party obligor.

③If, by the time an assignment order is served upon the third party obligor, another obligee carries out a seizure or a provisional seizure or makes a distribution demand in connection with the monetary claim subject to the assignment order, the assignment order does not become effective.

④An appeal may be filed against an order on the petition referred to in paragraph (1).

⑤An assignment order is not effective until it becomes final and binding.

⑥With regards to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph if a seized monetary claim is a claim stated in the items of Article 152, paragraph (1) or a claim under paragraph (2) of the Article (excluding cases where a monetary claim related to the obligations stated in the items of Article 151-2, paragraph (1) is included in claims of the attaching obligee), the phrase "unless it becomes final and binding" in the paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "until it becomes final and binding, and four weeks have passed from the date when the order of seizure is served to an obligor".

⑦If an appeal against an enforcement decision has been filed on the grounds that a document stated in Article 39, paragraph (1), item (vii) or (viii) was submitted after the issuance of an assignment order, the court of appeal must withhold the judicial decision on the appeal against an enforcement decision, except in the case of setting aside the assignment order on another ground.