# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二百十条 (Article 210)

- 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: 第二百十条 (Article 210)（第三者からの情報取得手続に係る事件に関する情報の目的外利用の制限） — address `art-210`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-210
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-210
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### 第二百十条（第三者からの情報取得手続に係る事件に関する情報の目的外利用の制限） — (Restriction on Use of Information on Case Related to Procedures for Acquiring Information from a Third Party for an Unintended Purpose)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-210 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-210 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-210</sup>

  **第一項**  申立人は、第三者からの情報取得手続において得られた債務者の財産に関する情報を、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。
  <sup>art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-210/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-210/par-1</sup>
  A petitioner must not use or provide information on property of an obligor which is acquired in procedures for acquiring information from a third party for a purpose other than for exercising a claim against the obligor according to its main objective.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  前条第一項第二号若しくは第三号又は第二項第二号若しくは第三号に掲げる者であつて、第三者からの情報取得手続に係る事件の記録中の第二百八条第一項の情報の提供に関する部分の情報を得たものは、当該情報を当該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。
  <sup>art-210/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-210/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-210/par-2</sup>
  A person stated in paragraph (1), item (ii) or item (iii) or paragraph (2), item (ii) or item (iii) of the preceding Article, who acquired the information of the portion on provisioning of information of Article 208, paragraph (1) in a case record related to procedures for acquiring information from a third party, must not use or provide the information for a purpose other than for exercising a claim against the obligor of the case according to its main objective.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-210/par-2: 前条第一項第二号 → 民事執行法 第二百九条第一項第二号 (Article 209, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-209/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-209/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-209/par-1/item-2
- art-210/par-2: 第三号 → 民事執行法 第二百九条第一項第三号 (Article 209, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-209/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-209/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-209/par-1/item-3
- art-210/par-2: 第二項第二号 → 民事執行法 第二百九条第二項第二号 (Article 209, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-209/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-209/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-209/par-2/item-2
- art-210/par-2: 第三号 → 民事執行法 第二百九条第二項第三号 (Article 209, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-209/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-209/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-209/par-2/item-3
- art-210/par-2: 第二百八条第一項 → 民事執行法 第二百八条第一項 (Article 208, paragraph (1)), art-208/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-208/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-208/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民事執行法 第百六十七条の十七第五項（扶養義務等に係る債権に基づく財産開示手続等の申立ての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-17/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-17/par-5
- 民事執行法 第二百十四条第二項（過料に処すべき場合） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-214/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-214/par-2

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## 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-20261019T093630-005, 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
