# 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-5051-17` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5051-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5051-17 - 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. --- ## 附　則 令和五年四月二八日法律第一七号 suppl-5051-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5051-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5051-17 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5051-17/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5051-17/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5051-17/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して一年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-5051-17/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5051-17/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5051-17/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding 1 year from the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official ### 第六条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5051-17/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5051-17/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5051-17/art-6 **第一項** 附則第一条ただし書に規定する規定の施行前にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5051-17/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5051-17/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5051-17/art-6/par-1 The provisions then in force continue to govern the application of penal provisions to conduct engaged in before the provisions prescribed in the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5051-17/art-6/par-1: 附則第一条 → 民事執行法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-5051-17/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5051-17/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5051-17/art-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 附則第六条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-5051-17/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-5051-17/art-6/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-20261019T093630-011, 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