# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第二十九条 (Article 29) - 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29)（債務名義等の送達） — address `art-29` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-29 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-29 - 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. --- ### 第二十九条（債務名義等の送達） — (Serving Titles of Obligation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-29 **第一項** 強制執行は、債務名義若しくは確定により債務名義となるべき裁判の正本若しくは謄本又はその債務名義若しくは裁判に係る電磁的記録が、あらかじめ、又は同時に、債務者に送達されたときに限り、開始することができる。第二十七条の規定により執行文が付与された場合においては、執行文の謄本又は執行文に係る電磁的記録及び同条の規定により債権者が提出した文書の謄本又は電磁的記録に記録されている事項の全部を記録した電磁的記録も、あらかじめ、又は同時に、送達されなければならない。 art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-29/par-1 Judicial enforcement may begin only if an authenticated copy or transcript of a title of obligation or of a judicial decision that becomes a title of obligation once it is final and binding or an electronic or magnetic record related to that title of obligation or judicial decision has been served upon the obligor in advance or at the same time. If an attestation of enforceability has been granted pursuant to the provisions of Article 27, transcripts of the attestation of enforceability or electronic or magnetic records related to the attestation of enforceability and transcript of the document produced by the obligee pursuant to the provisions of that Article or an electronic or magnetic record by recording all matters recorded in the electronic or magnetic record produced by the obligee pursuant to the provisions of that Article must also have been served in advance or at the same time. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-29/par-1: 第二十七条 → 民事執行法 第二十七条 (Article 27), art-27 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-27 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働組合法 第二十七条の十四第六項（和解） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-union-act/art-27-14/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000174/art-27-14/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