# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二百二条 (Article 202) - 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: 第二百二条 (Article 202)（財産開示事件に関する情報の目的外利用の制限） — address `art-202` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-202 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-202 - 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. --- ### 第二百二条（財産開示事件に関する情報の目的外利用の制限） — (Restriction on Use of Information on an Asset Disclosure Case for Unintended Purpose) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-202 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-202 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-202 **第一項** 申立人は、財産開示手続において得られた債務者の財産又は債務に関する情報を、当該債務者に対する債権をその本旨に従つて行使する目的以外の目的のために利用し、又は提供してはならない。 art-202/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-202/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-202/par-1 A petitioner must not use or provide information on the property or obligation of the obligor, which has been obtained in an asset disclosure procedure, for a purpose other than for exercising the claim against the obligor according to its main objective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第二号又は第三号に掲げる者であつて、財産開示事件の記録中の財産開示期日に関する部分の情報を得たものは、当該情報を当該財産開示事件の債務者に対する債権をその本旨に従つて行使する目的以外の目的のために利用し、又は提供してはならない。 art-202/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-202/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-202/par-2 The person stated in item (ii) or item (iii) of the preceding Article, who has obtained information on the portion of the record of an asset disclosure case that relates to the asset disclosure date, must not use or provide the relevant information for a purpose other than for exercising the claim against the obligor of the relevant asset disclosure case according to its main objective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-202/par-2: 前条第二号 → 民事執行法 第二百一条第一項第二号 (Article 201, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-201/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-201/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-201/par-1/item-2 - art-202/par-2: 第三号 → 民事執行法 第二百一条第一項第三号 (Article 201, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-201/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-201/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-201/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第二百十四条第一項（過料に処すべき場合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-214/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-214/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