# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第六十八条の三 (Article 68-3) - 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: 第六十八条の三 (Article 68-3)（売却の見込みのない場合の措置） — address `art-68-3` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十八条の三（売却の見込みのない場合の措置） — (Measures for When Immovable Property Is Unlikely to Be Sold) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-68-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-3 **第一項** 執行裁判所は、裁判所書記官が入札又は競り売りの方法による売却を三回実施させても買受けの申出がなかつた場合において、不動産の形状、用途、法令による利用の規制その他の事情を考慮して、更に売却を実施させても売却の見込みがないと認めるときは、強制競売の手続を停止することができる。この場合においては、差押債権者に対し、その旨を通知しなければならない。 art-68-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-3/par-1 If no purchase offer has been made even though the court clerk has had a sale implemented three times through bidding or an auction, and if the enforcement court, taking into consideration the shape of the immovable property, its intended use, regulations on its use under laws and regulations, and any other circumstances, finds that the property is unlikely to be sold even if the court clerk has a sale implemented again, the enforcement court may stay the proceedings for the compulsory auction. In this case, the enforcement court must notify the attaching obligee to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 差押債権者が、前項の規定による通知を受けた日から三月以内に、執行裁判所に対し、買受けの申出をしようとする者があることを理由として、売却を実施させるべき旨を申し出たときは、裁判所書記官は、第六十四条の定めるところにより売却を実施させなければならない。 art-68-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-3/par-2 If, within three months from the day of receipt of notice under the preceding paragraph, an attaching obligee has made an offer to the enforcement court seeking to have a sale implemented on the basis that there is a person seeking to make a purchase offer, a court clerk must have a sale implemented pursuant to the provisions of Article 64. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 差押債権者が前項の期間内に同項の規定による売却実施の申出をしないときは、執行裁判所は、強制競売の手続を取り消すことができる。同項の規定により裁判所書記官が売却を実施させた場合において買受けの申出がなかつたときも、同様とする。 art-68-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-3/par-3 If an attaching obligee does not make an offer seeking to have a sale implemented under the preceding paragraph within the period referred to in that paragraph, the enforcement court may cancel the proceedings for the compulsory auction. The same applies if no purchase offer is made when a court clerk has a sale implemented pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-68-3/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第六十八条の三第一項 (Article 68-3, paragraph (1)), art-68-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-3/par-1 - art-68-3/par-2: 第六十四条 → 民事執行法 第六十四条 (Article 64), art-64 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-64 - art-68-3/par-3: 前項 → 民事執行法 第六十八条の三第二項 (Article 68-3, paragraph (2)), art-68-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-3/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第六十八条の三第二項（売却の見込みのない場合の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-3/par-2 - 民事執行法 第六十八条の三第三項（売却の見込みのない場合の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-68-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-68-3/par-3 - 民事執行法 附則第八条第三項（執行裁判所の執行処分その他の行為等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/suppl-4161-152/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/suppl-4161-152/art-8/par-3 - 民法 第三百八十四条第一項第四号（債権者のみなし承諾） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-384/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-384/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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