# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第四十六条 (Article 46) - 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: 第四十六条 (Article 46)（差押えの効力） — address `art-46` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-46 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-46 - 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. --- ### 第四十六条（差押えの効力） — (Effects of a Seizure) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-46 **第一項** 差押えの効力は、強制競売の開始決定が債務者に送達された時に生ずる。ただし、差押えの登記がその開始決定の送達前にされたときは、登記がされた時に生ずる。 art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-46/par-1 A seizure becomes effective when an order commencing compulsory-auction proceedings is served upon the obligor; provided, however, that if the seizure is registered before the service of the commencement order, the seizure becomes effective at the time of the registration. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 差押えは、債務者が通常の用法に従つて不動産を使用し、又は収益することを妨げない。 art-46/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-46/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-46/par-2 A seizure does not preclude the obligor from using or making profits from the immovable property in an ordinary way. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第百十一条第一項（強制競売の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-111/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-111/par-1 - 民事執行法 第百二十一条第一項（不動産に対する強制競売の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-121/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