# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第十七条 (Article 17) - 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: 第十七条 (Article 17)（民事執行の事件の記録の閲覧等） — address `art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条（民事執行の事件の記録の閲覧等） — Access to Case Records of Civil Enforcement Cases caption: machine translation, not official art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-17 **第一項** 執行裁判所の行う民事執行について、利害関係を有する者は、裁判所書記官に対し、事件の記録の閲覧若しくは謄写、その正本、謄本若しくは抄本の交付又は事件に関する事項の証明書の交付を請求することができる。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-17/par-1 An interested person, in connection with the civil enforcement that the enforcement court carries out, may file a request with the court clerk to inspect or copy the case record, to be issued an authenticated copy, transcript, or extract of the record, or to be issued a certificate of matters relating to the case. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百六十七条の十三第一項（総則規定の適用関係） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-13/par-1 - 民事執行法 第百六十七条の十七第四項（扶養義務等に係る債権に基づく財産開示手続等の申立ての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-17/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-17/par-4 - 民事執行法 第二百一条第一項（財産開示事件の記録の閲覧等の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-201/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-201/par-1 - 民事執行法 第二百九条第一項（第三者からの情報取得手続に係る事件の記録の閲覧等の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-209/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-209/par-1 - 民事執行法 第二百九条第二項（第三者からの情報取得手続に係る事件の記録の閲覧等の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-209/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-209/par-2 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-enforcement-act-20261019T093630-001, translated 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