# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百六十二条 (Article 162) - Law: 民事執行法 (Civil Enforcement Act), 昭和五十四年法律第四号 - English title "Civil Enforcement Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百六十二条 (Article 162)（船舶の引渡請求権の差押命令の執行） — address `art-162` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-162 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-162 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百六十二条（船舶の引渡請求権の差押命令の執行） — (Carrying Out an Order to Seize a Claim for Delivery of a Vessel) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-162 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-162 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-162 **第一項** 船舶の引渡請求権を差し押さえた債権者は、債務者に対して差押命令が送達された日から一週間を経過したときは、第三債務者に対し、船舶の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所の選任する保管人にその船舶を引き渡すべきことを請求することができる。 art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-162/par-1 An obligee who has had a claim for delivery of a vessel seized may, when one week has passed from the day on which an order of seizure is served upon the obligor, demand the third party obligor to deliver the vessel to the custodian appointed by the district court having jurisdiction in the locality of the vessel. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により保管人が引渡しを受けた船舶の強制執行は、船舶執行の方法により行う。 art-162/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-162/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-162/par-2 Judicial enforcement against a vessel delivered to a custodian pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is carried out by the means of enforcement against a vessel. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項に規定する保管人が船舶の引渡しを受けた場合において、その船舶について強制競売の開始決定がされたときは、その保管人は、第百十六条第一項の規定により選任された保管人とみなす。 art-162/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-162/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-162/par-3 If the custodian prescribed in paragraph (1) has received delivery of a vessel, if an order commencing compulsory auction proceedings is issued for the vessel, the custodian is deemed to be a custodian appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article 116, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-162/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第百六十二条第一項 (Article 162, paragraph (1)), art-162/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-162/par-1 - art-162/par-3: 第一項 → 民事執行法 第百六十二条第一項 (Article 162, paragraph (1)), art-162/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-162/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-162/par-1 - art-162/par-3: 第百十六条第一項 → 民事執行法 第百十六条第一項 (Article 116, paragraph (1)), art-116/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-116/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百六十二条第二項（船舶の引渡請求権の差押命令の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-162/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-162/par-2 - 民事執行法 第百六十二条第三項（船舶の引渡請求権の差押命令の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-162/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-162/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事執行法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/354AC0000000004/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19