# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（民事訴訟法及び民事執行法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4011-91/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4011-91/art-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4011-91/art-4
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### 第四条（民事訴訟法及び民事執行法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Code of Civil Procedure and the Civil Enforcement Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4011-91/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4011-91/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4011-91/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前にした仮差押え又は仮処分の命令の申請に係る仮差押え又は仮処分の事件については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4011-91/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4011-91/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4011-91/art-4/par-1</sup>
With regard to cases of provisional seizure or provisional disposition pertaining to an application for an order of provisional seizure or provisional disposition made before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261019T093630-006, 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