# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二百八条 (Article 208)

- 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: 第二百八条 (Article 208)（情報の提供の方法等） — address `art-208`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-208
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-208
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### 第二百八条（情報の提供の方法等） — (Method for Information Provision)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-208 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-208 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-208</sup>

  **第一項**  第二百五条第一項、第二百六条第一項若しくは第二項又は前条第一項若しくは第二項の申立てを認容する決定により命じられた情報の提供は、執行裁判所に対し、書面でしなければならない。
  <sup>art-208/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-208/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-208/par-1</sup>
  The provisioning of information ordered by an order upholding the petition under Article 205, paragraph (1), Article 206, paragraph (1) or (2), or the preceding Article, paragraph (1) or (2) must be made in writing to an enforcement court.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  前項の情報の提供がされたときは、執行裁判所は、最高裁判所規則で定めるところにより、申立人に同項の書面の写しを送付し、かつ、債務者に対し、同項に規定する決定に基づいてその財産に関する情報の提供がされた旨を通知しなければならない。
  <sup>art-208/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-208/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-208/par-2</sup>
  When the provisioning of information of the preceding paragraph has been made, the enforcement court must send a petitioner a copy of the document of that paragraph and notify the obligor that the information about their property is provided based on a decision under that paragraph pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the Supreme Court.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-208/par-1: 第二百五条第一項 → 民事執行法 第二百五条第一項 (Article 205, paragraph (1)), art-205/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-205/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-205/par-1
- art-208/par-1: 第二百六条第一項 → 民事執行法 第二百六条第一項 (Article 206, paragraph (1)), art-206/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-206/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-206/par-1
- art-208/par-1: 第二項 → 民事執行法 第二百六条第二項 (Article 206, paragraph (2)), art-206/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-206/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-206/par-2
- art-208/par-1: 前条第一項 → 民事執行法 第二百七条第一項 (Article 207, paragraph (1)), art-207/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-207/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-207/par-1
- art-208/par-1: 第二項 → 民事執行法 第二百七条第二項 (Article 207, paragraph (2)), art-207/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-207/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-207/par-2
- art-208/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第二百八条第一項 (Article 208, paragraph (1)), art-208/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-208/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-208/par-1

## Cited by

7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民事執行法 第百六十七条の十七第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-17/par-3
- 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 第百六十七条の十七第五項（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-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-17/par-5
- 民事執行法 第二百八条第二項（情報の提供の方法等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-208/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-208/par-2
- 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
- 民事執行法 第二百十条第二項（第三者からの情報取得手続に係る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-210/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-210/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
