# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二百四条 (Article 204) - 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: 第二百四条 (Article 204)（管轄） — address `art-204` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-204 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-204 - 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. --- ### 第二百四条（管轄） — (Jurisdiction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-204 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-204 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-204 **第一項** この節の規定による債務者の財産に係る情報の取得に関する手続（以下「第三者からの情報取得手続」という。）については、債務者の普通裁判籍の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所が、この普通裁判籍がないときはこの節の規定により情報の提供を命じられるべき者の所在地を管轄する地方裁判所が、執行裁判所として管轄する。 art-204/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-204/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-204/par-1 With regards to procedures on acquisition of information related to property of an obligor under this section (referred to as "procedures for acquiring information from a third party" below), a district court having jurisdiction in the locality of the general venue of the obligor: or if there is no general venue, a district court having jurisdiction in the locality of a person who should be ordered to provide information under this section, has jurisdiction over the procedure as an enforcement court. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第百四十八条第一項第四号（強制執行等による時効の完成猶予及び更新） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-148/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-148/par-1/item-4 - 破産法 第四十二条第六項（他の手続の失効等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-42/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-42/par-6 --- ## 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