# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第九十七条 (Article 97) - Law: 道路運送車両法 (Road Transport Vehicle Act), 昭和二十六年法律第百八十五号 - English title "Road Transport Vehicle Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第九十七条 (Article 97)（登録自動車に対する強制執行等） — address `art-97` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条（登録自動車に対する強制執行等） — Compulsory Execution against Registered Motor Vehicles, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97 **第一項** 登録自動車に対する強制執行及び仮差押えの執行については、地方裁判所が執行裁判所又は保全執行裁判所として、これを管轄する。ただし、仮差押えの執行で最高裁判所規則で定めるものについては、地方裁判所以外の裁判所が保全執行裁判所として、これを管轄する。 art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-1 With regard to compulsory execution against and the execution of provisional seizure of a registered motor vehicle, the district court has jurisdiction as the execution court or the court for execution of preservation; provided, however, that with regard to the execution of a provisional seizure specified by Rules of the Supreme Court, a court other than a district court has jurisdiction as the court for execution of preservation. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の強制執行及び仮差押えの執行に関し必要な事項は、最高裁判所規則で定める。 art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-2 Matters necessary with regard to the compulsory execution and the execution of provisional seizure referred to in the preceding paragraph are specified by Rules of the Supreme Court. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前二項の規定は、登録自動車の競売について準用する。 art-97/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to the auction of a registered motor vehicle. machine translation, not official **第四項** 前三項の規定は、自動車抵当法第二条但書に規定する大型特殊自動車については、適用しない。 art-97/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-4 The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs do not apply to a large special motor vehicle prescribed in the proviso to Article 2 of the Automobile Mortgage Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-97/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-1 - art-97/par-3: 前二項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-1 - art-97/par-3: 前二項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十七条第二項 (Article 97, paragraph (2)), art-97/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-2 - art-97/par-4: 前三項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-1 - art-97/par-4: 前三項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十七条第二項 (Article 97, paragraph (2)), art-97/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-2 - art-97/par-4: 前三項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十七条第三項 (Article 97, paragraph (3)), art-97/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-3 - art-97/par-4: 自動車抵当法第二条 → e-Gov law 326AC0000000187, 第二条 (Article 2), art-2 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第九十七条第二項（登録自動車に対する強制執行等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第九十七条第三項（登録自動車に対する強制執行等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-3 - 道路運送車両法 第九十七条第四項（登録自動車に対する強制執行等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97/par-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路運送車両法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185/20260401_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 道路運送車両法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/529), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T120733-031, translated 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 189 — 道路運送車両法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13