# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二条 (Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Article 2)（執行機関） — address `art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（執行機関） — (Enforcement Authority) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-2 **第一項** 民事執行は、申立てにより、裁判所又は執行官が行う。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-2/par-1 A court or court enforcement officer carries out civil enforcement upon petition. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百六十七条の二第一項（少額訴訟債権執行の開始等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-2/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