# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第八条 (Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Article 8)（休日又は夜間の執行） — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条（休日又は夜間の執行） — (Enforcement on Sundays and Holidays or at Night) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-8 **第一項** 執行官等は、日曜日その他の一般の休日又は午後七時から翌日の午前七時までの間に人の住居に立ち入つて職務を執行するには、執行裁判所の許可を受けなければならない。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-8/par-1 A court enforcement officer or civil enforcement official must obtain the permission of an enforcement court to enter a person's residence to perform their duties on a Sunday or general holiday or during the period from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM the following morning. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 執行官等は、職務の執行に当たり、前項の規定により許可を受けたことを証する文書を提示しなければならない。 art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-8/par-2 In performing their duties, a court enforcement officer or civil enforcement official must present a document proving that they have obtained permission pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-8/par-2: 前項 → 民事執行法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-8/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第八条第二項（休日又は夜間の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-enforcement-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-8/par-2 --- ## 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