# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第百七十六条 (Article 176) - 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: 第百七十六条 (Article 176)（執行裁判所及び執行官の責務） — address `art-176` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-176 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-176 - 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. --- ### 第百七十六条（執行裁判所及び執行官の責務） — (Responsibilities of Enforcement Courts and Court Enforcement Officers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-176 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-176 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-176 **第一項** 執行裁判所及び執行官は、第百七十四条第一項第一号に掲げる方法による子の引渡しの強制執行の手続において子の引渡しを実現するに当たつては、子の年齢及び発達の程度その他の事情を踏まえ、できる限り、当該強制執行が子の心身に有害な影響を及ぼさないように配慮しなければならない。 art-176/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-176/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-176/par-1 In bringing about a child handover in proceedings to enforce the handing over of the child by the means stated in Article 174, paragraph (1), item (i), the enforcement court and court enforcement officer must give as much consideration as possible to preventing enforcement from physically or psychologically harming the child, taking into account the child's age and level of development and other relevant circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-176/par-1: 第百七十四条第一項第一号 → 民事執行法 第百七十四条第一項第一号 (Article 174, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-174/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-174/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-174/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 附則第四条第一項（子の引渡しの強制執行に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5011-2/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5011-2/art-4/par-1 --- ## 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