# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第六十八条の四 (Article 68-4) - 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: 第六十八条の四 (Article 68-4)（調査の嘱託） — address `art-68-4` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-4 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十八条の四（調査の嘱託） — (Commission of Investigation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-68-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-4 **第一項** 執行裁判所は、最高価買受申出人（その者が法人である場合にあつては、その役員。以下この項において同じ。）が暴力団員等に該当するか否かについて、必要な調査を執行裁判所の所在地を管轄する都道府県警察に嘱託しなければならない。ただし、最高価買受申出人が暴力団員等に該当しないと認めるべき事情があるものとして最高裁判所規則で定める場合は、この限りでない。 art-68-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-4/par-1 An enforcement court must commission the prefectural police having jurisdiction of the location of the enforcement court to conduct necessary investigation concerning whether or not the highest bidder (or officers if the person is a corporation; the same applies in this paragraph) falls under a current or former member of an organized crime group; provided, however, that this does not apply to cases, which the Rules of the Supreme Court provide, that there are circumstances which cause the enforcement court to find that the highest bidder does not fall under a current or former member of an organized crime group Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 執行裁判所は、自己の計算において最高価買受申出人に買受けの申出をさせた者があると認める場合には、当該買受けの申出をさせた者（その者が法人である場合にあつては、その役員。以下この項において同じ。）が暴力団員等に該当するか否かについて、必要な調査を執行裁判所の所在地を管轄する都道府県警察に嘱託しなければならない。ただし、買受けの申出をさせた者が暴力団員等に該当しないと認めるべき事情があるものとして最高裁判所規則で定める場合は、この限りでない。 art-68-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-4/par-2 If an enforcement court finds that there is a person who makes the highest bidder make the purchase offer on the person's account, the enforcement court must commission the prefectural police having jurisdiction of the location of the enforcement court to conduct necessary investigation concerning whether or not the person who makes the offeror make the purchase offer (or officers if the person is a corporation; the same applies in this paragraph) falls under a current or former member of an organized crime group;.provided, however, that this does not apply to cases, which the Rules of the Supreme Court provide, that there are circumstances which cause the enforcement court to find that the person who makes the offeror make the purchase offer does not fall under a current or former member of an organized crime group Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-68-4/par-1: この項 → 民事執行法 第六十八条の四第一項 (Article 68-4, paragraph (1)), art-68-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-4/par-1 - art-68-4/par-2: この項 → 民事執行法 第六十八条の四第二項 (Article 68-4, paragraph (2)), art-68-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-4/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第六十八条の四第一項（調査の嘱託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-4/par-1 - 民事執行法 第六十八条の四第二項（調査の嘱託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-4/par-2 - 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 - 民事執行法 附則第二条第一項（売却の手続に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5011-2/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5011-2/art-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