# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第四十条 (Article 40)

- 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: 第四十条 (Article 40)（執行処分の取消し） — address `art-40`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-40
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-40
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### 第四十条（執行処分の取消し） — (Voiding an Enforcement Disposition)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-40</sup>

  **第一項**  前条第一項第一号から第六号までに掲げる文書が提出されたときは、執行裁判所又は執行官は、既にした執行処分をも取り消さなければならない。
  <sup>art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-40/par-1</sup>
  If a document stated in paragraph (1), items (i) through (vi) of the preceding Article has been submitted, the enforcement court or court enforcement officer must void even an enforcement measure that has already been taken.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  第十二条の規定は、前項の規定により執行処分を取り消す場合については適用しない。
  <sup>art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-40/par-2</sup>
  The provisions of Article 12 do not apply if the enforcement court or court enforcement officer voids an enforcement disposition pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-40/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第六号まで → 民事執行法 第三十九条第一項第一号 (Article 39, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-39/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-39/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39/par-1/item-1
- art-40/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第六号まで → 民事執行法 第三十九条第一項第二号 (Article 39, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-39/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-39/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39/par-1/item-2
- art-40/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第六号まで → 民事執行法 第三十九条第一項第三号 (Article 39, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-39/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-39/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39/par-1/item-3
- art-40/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第六号まで → 民事執行法 第三十九条第一項第四号 (Article 39, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-39/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-39/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39/par-1/item-4
- art-40/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第六号まで → 民事執行法 第三十九条第一項第四号の二 (Article 39, paragraph (1), item (iv-2)), art-39/par-1/item-4-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-39/par-1/item-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39/par-1/item-4-2
- art-40/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第六号まで → 民事執行法 第三十九条第一項第五号 (Article 39, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-39/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-39/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39/par-1/item-5
- art-40/par-1: 前条第一項第一号から第六号まで → 民事執行法 第三十九条第一項第六号 (Article 39, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-39/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-39/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-39/par-1/item-6
- art-40/par-2: 第十二条 → 民事執行法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-12
- art-40/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第四十条第一項 (Article 40, paragraph (1)), art-40/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-40/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 民事執行法 第四十条第二項（執行処分の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-40/par-2
- 民事執行法 第百六十七条の十三第一項（総則規定の適用関係） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-167-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-167-13/par-1
- 民事執行法 第二百三条第一項（強制執行及び担保権の実行の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-203/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-203/par-1
- 民事執行法 第二百十一条第一項（強制執行及び担保権の実行の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-211/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-211/par-1

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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-20261019T093630-002, 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