# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二百三条 (Article 203) - 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: 第二百三条 (Article 203)（強制執行及び担保権の実行の規定の準用） — address `art-203` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-203 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-203 - 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. --- ### 第二百三条（強制執行及び担保権の実行の規定の準用） — (Application Mutatis Mutandis of the Provisions on Judicial Enforcement and Enforcement of a Security Interest) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-203 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-203 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-203 **第一項** 第三十九条及び第四十条の規定は執行力のある債務名義の正本に基づく財産開示手続について、第四十二条（第二項を除く。）の規定は財産開示手続について、第百八十二条及び第百八十三条の規定は一般の先取特権に基づく財産開示手続について準用する。 art-203/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-203/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-203/par-1 The provisions of Article 39 and Article 40 apply mutatis mutandis to an asset disclosure procedure based on an authenticated copy of an enforceable title of obligation, the provisions of Article 42 (excluding paragraph (2)) apply mutatis mutandis to an asset disclosure procedure, and the provisions of Article 182 and Article 183 apply mutatis mutandis to an asset disclosure procedure based on a general statutory lien. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-203/par-1: 第三十九条 → 民事執行法 第三十九条 (Article 39), art-39 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39 - art-203/par-1: 第四十条 → 民事執行法 第四十条 (Article 40), art-40 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-40 - art-203/par-1: 第四十二条 → 民事執行法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-42 - art-203/par-1: 第二項 → 民事執行法 第四十二条第二項 (Article 42, paragraph (2)), art-42/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-42/par-2 - art-203/par-1: 第百八十二条 → 民事執行法 第百八十二条 (Article 182), art-182 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-182 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-182 - art-203/par-1: 第百八十三条 → 民事執行法 第百八十三条 (Article 183), art-183 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-183 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-183 --- ## 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