# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（地代等の代払の許可） — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（地代等の代払の許可） — (Permission to Pay Land Rent in Place of the Obligor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-56 **第一項** 建物に対し強制競売の開始決定がされた場合において、その建物の所有を目的とする地上権又は賃借権について債務者が地代又は借賃を支払わないときは、執行裁判所は、申立てにより、差押債権者（配当要求の終期後に強制競売又は競売の申立てをした差押債権者を除く。）がその不払の地代又は借賃を債務者に代わつて弁済することを許可することができる。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-56/par-1 If an order commencing compulsory auction proceedings has been issued against a building, if the obligor fails to pay rent for the superficies or right of lease for owning that building, the enforcement court may, upon petition, permit the attaching obligee (excluding an attaching obligee who filed a petition for a compulsory auction or an auction after the deadline for a distribution demand) to perform that unpaid rent in place of the obligor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第五十五条第十項の規定は、前項の申立てに要した費用及び同項の許可を得て支払つた地代又は借賃について準用する。 art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-56/par-2 The provisions of Article 55, paragraph (10) apply mutatis mutandis to the expenses required for the petition referred to in the preceding paragraph and the rent paid by obtaining the permission referred to in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-56/par-2: 第五十五条第十項 → 民事執行法 第五十五条第十項 (Article 55, paragraph (10)), art-55/par-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-55/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-55/par-10 - art-56/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-56/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第五十六条第二項（地代等の代払の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-56/par-2 - 民事執行法 第百二十一条第一項（不動産に対する強制競売の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-121/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