# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二百一条 (Article 201)

- 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: 第二百一条 (Article 201)（財産開示事件の記録の閲覧等の制限） — address `art-201`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-201
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-201
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### 第二百一条（財産開示事件の記録の閲覧等の制限） — (Restriction on Inspection of the Record of an Asset Disclosure Case)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-201 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-201 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-201</sup>

  **第一項**  財産開示事件の記録中財産開示期日に関する部分についての第十七条の規定による請求は、次に掲げる者に限り、することができる。
  <sup>art-201/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-201/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-201/par-1</sup>
  Only the following persons may make a request under Article 17 for the portion of the record of an asset disclosure case that relates to the asset disclosure date:
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **一**  申立人
    <sup>art-201/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-201/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-201/par-1/item-1</sup>
    the petitioner;
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **二**  債務者に対する金銭債権について執行力のある債務名義の正本を有する債権者
    <sup>art-201/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-201/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-201/par-1/item-2</sup>
    an obligee who has an authenticated copy of an enforceable title of obligation for a monetary claim against the obligor;
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **三**  債務者の財産について一般の先取特権を有することを証する文書を提出した債権者
    <sup>art-201/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-201/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-201/par-1/item-3</sup>
    an obligee who has submitted a document proving that the obligee has a general statutory lien for property of the obligor; or
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **四**  債務者又は開示義務者
    <sup>art-201/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-201/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-201/par-1/item-4</sup>
    the obligor or the person obliged to disclose.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-201/par-1: 第十七条 → 民事執行法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-17

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民事執行法 第二百二条第二項（財産開示事件に関する情報の目的外利用の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-202/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-202/par-2

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## 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-20261019T093630-005, 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
