# Official depository (供託所, きょうたくじょ) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/official-depository. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Group: Institutions, offices and documents - URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/official-depository - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/official-depository - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-09-29 The office that holds money and securities deposited (供託) under a provision of an Act or other statute: a Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局) or District Legal Affairs Bureau (地方法務局), one of their branch bureaus, or a local office of theirs the Minister of Justice designates (Deposit Act, Article 1). Its work is done by an official of the bureau whom the bureau's head designates as a deposit officer (供託官) (Article 1-2). Under the Real Estate Brokerage Act, a real estate broker (宅地建物取引業者) must deposit its security deposit for operations (営業保証金) at the official depository nearest its principal office (Article 25, paragraph (1)), and a person who dealt with the broker in its real estate brokerage business, other than another broker, has the right to be paid a claim arising from that deal out of that deposit (Article 27, paragraph (1)). Before the contract is made, a broker must tell the other party that official depository and its address, or, if the broker is a member of a real estate guarantee association, the association and the official depository where the association lodged its own deposit (Article 35-2). Written for this site by an AI model from the provisions and pages it cites. Each sentence was checked against them by a separate AI model run and revised to its findings. Not reviewed by a lawyer. ## Provisions and sources it draws on - [Deposit Act, Arts. 1, 1-2](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/132AC0000000015) - [Real Estate Brokerage Act, Arts. 25, 27, 35-2, 64-7](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/327AC1000000176) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/real-estate-brokerage-act ## Where the laws use it 9 laws in force use it in this sense, in 25 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [Real Estate Brokerage Act (宅地建物取引業法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/real-estate-brokerage-act): 6 provisions, among them [Article 25](https://japanlaw.org/en/real-estate-brokerage-act/art-25), [Article 29](https://japanlaw.org/en/real-estate-brokerage-act/art-29), [Article 30](https://japanlaw.org/en/real-estate-brokerage-act/art-30) - [Civil Enforcement Act (民事執行法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act): 3 provisions, among them [Article 15](https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-15), [Article 156](https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-156), [Article 161-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-161-2) - [Civil Code (民法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code): 3 provisions, among them [Article 466-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-466-2), [Article 466-3](https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-466-3), [Article 495](https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-495) - [Payment Services Act (資金決済に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act): 3 provisions, among them [Article 14](https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-14), [Article 43](https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-43), [Article 58-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-58-2) - [Companies Act (会社法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 141](https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-141), [Article 142](https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-142) - [Act on Building Unit Ownership (建物の区分所有等に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/building-unit-ownership-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 87](https://japanlaw.org/en/building-unit-ownership-act/art-87), [Article 88](https://japanlaw.org/en/building-unit-ownership-act/art-88) - [Code of Civil Procedure (民事訴訟法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure): 2 provisions, among them [Article 76](https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-76), [Article 405](https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-civil-procedure/art-405) - [Copyright Act (著作権法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 74](https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-74), [Article 93-3](https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-93-3) - [Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (金融商品取引法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 31-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-31-2), [Supplementary Provisions](https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-3301-120) ## Related - [Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局, ほうむきょく)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/legal-affairs-bureau) --- ## Sources - Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-09-29) - Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text - English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (9 records)