# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4301-20` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20 - 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. --- ## 附　則 平成三〇年四月二五日法律第二〇号 suppl-4301-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-20/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して一年六月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。 suppl-4301-20/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year and six months from the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official ### 第四条（民事執行法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Civil Enforcement Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-20/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行前に申し立てられた民事執行の事件については、第三条の規定による改正後の民事執行法（次項において「新民事執行法」という。）第二十二条（第六号に係る部分に限る。）の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-1 With regard to a civil enforcement case for which a petition was filed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 22 (limited to the portion pertaining to item (vi)) of the Civil Enforcement Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 (referred to as the "New Civil Enforcement Act" in the following paragraph). machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行の際現に係属している外国裁判所の家事事件における裁判についての執行判決を求める訴えに係る訴訟については、新民事執行法第二十四条の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-2 With regard to an action seeking an enforcement judgment concerning a judicial decision in a domestic relations case of a foreign court that is pending at the time this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 24 of the New Civil Enforcement Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-1: 次項 → 民事執行法 附則第四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)), suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-2 - suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-1: 第二十二条 → 民事執行法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22 - suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-1: 第六号 → 民事執行法 第二十二条第一項第六号 (Article 22, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-22/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-22/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-22/par-1/item-6 - suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-2: 新民事執行法第二十四条 → 民事執行法 第二十四条 (Article 24), art-24 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-24 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 附則第四条第一項（民事執行法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4301-20/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4301-20/art-4/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-enforcement-act-20261019T093630-009, 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