Guarantee Law of the People's Republic of China
(Adopted at the 14th Meeting
of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's
Congress on June 30, 1995, promulgated by Order No.50 of the
President of the People's Republic of China on June
30, 1995,
and effective as of October 1, 1995 )
Contents
Chapter
I General Provisions
Chapter
II Guaranty
Chapter III Mortgage
Chapter
IV Pledge
Chapter
V Lien
Chapter
VI Deposit
Chapter
VII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I£ General Provisions
£ £ Article
1£ This Law is formulated for the purpose of promoting the
capital flow and commodity circulation, safeguarding the
realization of obligatory right, and developing the socialist
market
economy.
£ £ Article 2£ In such economic activities as
loans, sales, goods freight and hire of processing work, etc.,
where the creditor needs to safeguard the realization of his
obligatory right by the way of
guarantee, a guarantee may be
established in accordance with the provisions of this
Law.
£ £ The modes of guarantee provided for in this Law shall be
guaranty,mortgage, pledge, lien and deposit.
£ £ Article 3£ In
activities of guarantee, the principle of equality,voluntariness, fairness and good faith shall be complied
with.
£ £ Article 4£ When a third party offers the creditor a
guarantee on behalf of the debtor, he may require the debtor to
offer a counter-guarantee.
£ £ The provisions on guarantee of
this Law shall be applicable to counter-guarantee.
£ £ Article
5£ A guarantee contract shall be an accessory contract to the
master contract. Where the master contract is invalid, the
guarantee contract shall also be invalid. Where an agreement is
otherwise reached in the guarantee contract, that agreement
shall prevail.
£ £ Where a guarantee contract is affirmed to be
invalid, the debtor, surety or creditor is in fault, they shall
respectively bear the relevant civil liability according to
their own faults.
Chapter II£ Guaranty
£ £ Section
1£ Guaranty and Guarantor
£ £ Article 6£ In this Law, guaranty means
that the guarantor and the creditor agree that, when the debtor
fails to perform his debt, the guarantor will perform the debt
or bear the liability in accordance
with the
agreement.
£ £ Article 7£ A guarantor may be a legal person, other
organization or a citizen who has ability to discharge of debts
on behalf of others.
£ £ Article 8£ The state administrative
departments shall not be a guarantor, unless they, with the
approval of the State Council, transfer loans for the purpose of
using the loans of foreign governments or international
organizations.
£ £ Article 9£ Such institutions and social
organizations as schools,kindergartens and hospitals, etc.,
which are established for the purpose of public interest shall
not be a guarantor.
£ £ Article 10£ A branch or functional
department of an enterprise as legal person shall not be a
guarantor.
£ £ If a branch of an enterprise as legal person has
been delegated in writing by the legal person, it may offer the
guaranty within the delegation extent.
£ £ Article 11£ No
organization or individual may oblige enterprises or financial
institutions such as a bank to offer guaranty for others;
enterprises and financial institutions such as a bank shall have
the
right to refuse to offer guaranty for others when they are
obliged to.
£ £ Article 12£ Where there are two or more guarantors
for the same debt, the guarantors shall, according to their own
guaranty shares agreed in the guaranty contract, bear the
guaranty liability. In case of no agreement on the guaranty
shares, the guarantors shall bear the joint liability. Thus the
creditor may demand any of the guarantors to bear the entire
guaranty liability, and any of the guarantors shall bear the
obligation to guarantee the entire realization of the obligatory
right. The guarantor who has borne the guaranty liability shall
be entitled to claim repayment from the debtor, or to demand
other guarantors bearing the joint liability to satisfy him
their hares that they shall bear.
£ £ Section 2£ Guaranty
Contract and Guaranty Mode
£ £ Article 13£ The guarantor and
creditor shall enter into a guaranty contract in written
form.
£ £ Article 14£ The guarantor and creditor may enter into a
guaranty contract respectively as for a single master contract,
and may also,within the maximum obligatory right amount as for
a loan contract
occurred continuously during a certain period or
a commodity trade contract, enter into a guaranty
contract.
£ £ Article 15£ A guaranty contract shall contain the
following contents:
£ £ 1. the categories and amount of a
master obligatory right guaranteed;
£ £ 2. the time limitation
to perform the debt by the debtor;
£ £ 3. the guaranty
mode;
£ £ 4. the scope guaranteed by the guaranty;
£ £ 5. the time
period of guaranty; and
£ £ 6. other items which the two parties
consider necessary to agree.
£ £ If a guaranty contract has the
contents prescribed in the proceeding paragraph incomplete, it
may be supplemented.
£ £ Article 16£ The guaranty mode
contains:
£ £ 1. the general guaranty; and
£ £ 2. the joint
liability guaranty.
£ £ Article 17£ That the parties in a guaranty
contract agree that, when the debtor cannot perform the debt,
the guaranty liability is to be borne by the guarantor, is the
general guaranty.
£ £ The guarantor of a general guaranty may,
without trial or arbitration on the disputes of a master
contract, and before the debt cannot be performed yet with
compulsory enforcement on the debtors'property according to the law, refuse to bear
the guaranty liability for the creditor.
£ £ When there is any
one of the following circumstances, the guarantor shall not
exercise the right prescribed in the proceeding
paragraph:
£ £ 1. the address of the debtor has changed, so
that it becomes a major difficulty for the creditor to demand
him to perform the debt;
£ £ 2. the people's court accepting a
debtor's bankruptcy case, orders suspension of execution
procedure; or
£ £ 3. the guarantor abandons the right described in
the proceeding paragraph in written form.
£ £ Article 18£ That
the parties in a guaranty contract agree that the guarantor and
debtor bear the joint liability on a debt, is the joint
liability guaranty.
£ £ If the debtor of a joint liability
guaranty cannot perform the debt at the date of expiration of
the debt performance time limitation prescribed in the master
contract, the creditor may demand the debtor
to perform the
debt, and may also demand the guarantor to bear the guaranty
liability within the extent of guaranty.
£ £ Article 19£ If no
agreement or the agreement is not clear on the guaranty mode by
the parties, the guaranty liability shall be borne according to
the joint liability guaranty.
£ £ Article 20£ The guarantor of a
general guaranty and joint liability guaranty shall be entitled
to have the counterplead right of the debtor. If the debtor
abandons his counterplead right, the guarantor shall still be
entitled to have right to counterplead.
£ £ The counterplead right
means that the right of, when the creditor exercises his
obligatory right, the debtor according to legal reasons
executing the petition right against the creditor.
£ £ Section
3£ Guaranty Liability
£ £ Article 21£ The guaranteed scope of a
guaranty concludes the master obligatory right and its interest,
contractual fine, damage compensation and expense of credit
realization. If there is an agreement otherwise in the guaranty
contract, it shall be complied with.
£ £ If no agreement or the
agreement is not clear on the guaranteed scope of a guaranty by
the parties, the guarantor shall bear the liability to the
entire debt.
£ £ Article 22£ During the time period of guaranty,
where the creditor assigns the master obligatory right to a
third party according to the law, the guarantor continues to
bear the guaranty liability within the original guaranteed scope
of the guaranty. If there is an agreement otherwise in the
guaranty contract, it shall be complied with.
£ £ Article
23£ During the time period of guaranty, if the creditor wants to
permit the debtor to assign the debt, he shall get the written
consent from the guarantor, the guarantor bears no guaranty
liability on the debt assigned without his consent.
£ £ Article
24£ If the creditor and debtor agree to change the master
contract, they shall get the written consent from the guarantor,without this written consent, the guarantor bears no longer
guaranty
liability. If there is an agreement otherwise in the
guaranty contract, it shall be complied with.
£ £ Article 25£ If
no agreement on guaranty period between the guarantor and
creditor of a general guaranty, the guaranty period shall be 6
months from the date of expiration of the master debt
performance time limitation.
£ £ During the guaranty period
agreed in the contract or described in the proceeding paragraph,
if the creditor has not filed a case against the debtor or
applied for the arbitration, the guarantor shall be
exempted
from the guaranty liability; if the creditor has filed a case or
applied for the arbitration, the guaranty period shall be
applied to the provisions on the discontinuance of limitation of
action.
£ £ Article 26£ If no agreement on a guaranty period between
the guarantor and creditor of a joint liability guaranty, the
creditor shall be entitled to have the right within 6 months
from the date of
expiration of the master debt performance time
limitation to demand the guarantor to bear the guaranty
liability.
£ £ During the guaranty period agreed in the contract or
described in the proceeding paragraph, if the creditor has not
demanded the guarantor to bear guaranty liability, the guarantor
shall be exempted
from the guaranty liability.
£ £ Article
27£ The guarantor shall make a guaranty on a credit occurred
continuously according to the provisions of Article 14 in this
law, if no agreement on guaranty time period, the guarantor may
at all times inform the creditor in written form to terminate
the guaranty contract, however the guarantor shall, as for the
credit occurred before having informed the creditor, bear
guaranty liability.
£ £ Article 28£ Where there are both a guaranty
and a guarantee of real right on a same obligatory right, the
guarantor shall bear the guaranty liability on the obligatory
right except the guarantee of
real right.
£ £ If the creditor
abandons the guarantee of real right, the guarantor shall,
within the scope of right abandoned by the creditor, be exempted
from the guaranty liability.
£ £ Article 29£ Where a branch of an
enterprise as a legal person enters into a guaranty contract
with the creditor without written delegation from the enterprise
as legal person or exceeding the extent
of delegation, this
contract shall be invalid or the part exceeding the extent of
delegation shall be invalid; if the creditor and the enterprise
as legal person has default, they shall bear the relevant civil
liability according to their fault respectively; if the creditor
has no default, the civil liability shall be borne by the
enterprise as legal person.
£ £ Article 30£ If there is any one
of the following circumstances, the guarantor shall not bear the
civil liability:
£ £ 1. the parties of the master contract collude
to defraud the guarantor to offer a guaranty; or
£ £ 2. the
creditor of the master contract take means of fraud or
coercion
to force the guarantor to offer a guaranty against his true
intention.
£ £ Article 31£ After the guarantor has borne the
guaranty liability, he shall be entitled to claim repayment from
the debtor.
£ £ Article 32£ After the people's court accepts a
debtor's bankruptcy case, if the creditor does not declare his
obligatory rights, the guarantor may take part in the bankrupted
property distribution,
exercise the
right to claim repayment in advance.
Chapter
III£ Mortgage
£ £ Section 1£ Mortgage and Gage
£ £ Article 33£ The
mortgage prescribed in this Law, means a guarantee that a debtor
or a third party does not transfer the possession of the property listed in Article 34 in this Law, make
the said property as obligatory
right. When the debtor does not perform the debt, the creditor
shall be entitled to have right to keep the said property to offset the debt or have priority in
satisfying his claim out of proceeds from the auction, sale of
the said property pursuant to the
provisions of this Law.
£ £ The debtor or third party prescribed in
the proceeding paragraph shall be the mortgagor, the creditor
shall be the mortgagee, the property
offered to guarantee shall be the gage.
£ £ Article 34£ The
following properties may be mortgaged:
£ £ 1. the house and other
land fixtures owned by the mortgagor;
£ £ 2. the machine,
transportation means and other property
owned by the mortgagor;
£ £ 3. the state-owned right to the use
of land, house and other land fixtures which the mortgagor is
entitled to dispose of pursuant to the law;
£ £ 4. the
state-owned machine, transportation means and other property which the mortgagor is entitled to
dispose of pursuant to the law;
£ £ 5. the right to the use of
land on the unreclaimed land such as unreclaimed mountains,
unreclaimed valleys, unclaimed hills or unreclaimed beaches
which is contracted for management by the
mortgagor in
accordance with law and is agreed to mortgage by the contractee;
or
£ £ 6. other property which may be
mortgaged in accordance with the law.
£ £ The mortgagor may
mortgage the properties listed in the proceeding paragraph all
together.
£ £ Article 35£ The obligatory right guaranteed by the
mortgagor shall not exceed the value of the gage.
£ £ After the
property is mortgaged, the surplus part
that the said property is more than
the obligatory right guaranteed, may be mortgaged once more, but
shall not exceed the surplus part.
£ £ Article 36£ If the house upon
the state-owned land obtained according to the law is to be
mortgaged, the right to the use of the state-owned land within
the scope the house occupies shall be
mortgaged at the same
time.
£ £ If the right to the use of state-owned land obtained by
way of
transfer according to the law, when mortgaged the house
upon the said
state-owned land shall be mortgaged at the same
time.
£ £ The right to the use of land of enterprises of a township
(town)
or village shall not be mortgaged separately. If the
buildings of
enterprises of township (town) or village such as a
plant is to be
mortgaged, the right to the use of the land
within the scope it
occupies shall be mortgaged at the same
time.
£ £ Article 37£ the following properties shall not be
mortgaged:
£ £ 1. the ownership of land;
£ £ 2. the ownership of
the lands owned by collectives such as cultivated land, house
sites, private plots of cropland and hilly land shall not be
mortgaged, except that prescribed in item 5 of Article
34,
paragraph 3 of Article 36 of this Law;
£ £ 3. the facilities for
education, the facilities for public health and medicine and
other facilities for social benefit of the institutions or
social units for purpose of public interest such as schools,
kindergartens or hospitals;
£ £ 4. the properties whose ownership
or right to use is uncertain or in dispute;
£ £ 5. the
properties sealed up, distrained or regulated; or
£ £ 6. other
properties which shall not be mortgaged pursuant to
law.
£ £ Section 2£ Mortgage Contract and Gage
Registration
£ £ Article 38£ The mortgagor and the mortgagee shall
enter into a mortgage contract in written form.
£ £ Article
39£ A mortgage contract shall contain the following
contents:
£ £ 1. the categories and amount of master obligatory
right guaranteed;
£ £ 2. the time limitation to perform the
debt by the debtor;
£ £ 3. the name, quantity, quality, situation,
address, ownership or right to the use of the gage;
£ £ 4. the
extent guaranteed by the mortgage; and
£ £ 5. other items the
parties consider necessary to agree.
£ £ If a mortgage contract has
the contents prescribed in the proceeding paragraph incomplete,
it may be supplemented.
£ £ Article 40£ When entering into a
mortgage contract, the mortgagor and the mortgagee shall not
agree that, when the mortgagee is not satisfied at date of
expiration of the time limitation for the debt
performance, the
ownership of the gage is to be transferred to the
creditor.
£ £ Article 41£ Where the parties take the properties
prescribed in Article 42 of this Law to mortgage, he shall go
through the gage registration, the mortgage contract shall be
effective as the date of
registration.
£ £ Article 42£ The
departments handling the gage registration are as
follows:
£ £ 1. in case that the right to the use of land
without fixtures upon the land is to be mortgaged, it shall be
the land administration departments which upon verification
issue certificates for the right to the use of land;
£ £ 2. in
case that the city real estates or the building of the township
(town) or village enterprises such as a plant is to be
mortgaged, it shall be the departments prescribed by the local
people's governments at and above the county level;
£ £ 3. in
case that the woods are to be mortgaged, it shall be the
forestry administration departments at and above the county
level;
£ £ 4. in case that aircraft, vessels or vehicles are to be
mortgaged, it shall be the registration departments for
transportation means; or
£ £ 5. in case that the equipment or other
movables of a enterprise are to be mortgaged, it shall be the
administrations of industry and commerce where the properties
are located.
£ £ Article 43£ Where the party takes other properties
to mortgage, he may go through the gage registration on a
voluntary basis, the mortgage contract shall be effective as the
date of registration.
£ £ The party who has not handled the gage
registration shall not be opposed to a third party. If the party
goes through the gage registration, the registration department
is to be the notary department of the area where the mortgagor
is located.
£ £ Article 44£ When the gage registration is to be
handled, the following documents or their copies shall be
produced to the registration department:
£ £ 1. the master
contract and the mortgage contract; and
£ £ 2. the certificate of
ownership of or right to the use of the gage.
£ £ Article
45£ The information registered by the registration department
shall be allowed to inquire and read, copy by hand and
copy.
£ £ Section 3£ Effect of Mortgage
£ £ Article 46£ Within
the guaranteed scope of a mortgage shall be the master
obligatory and its interest, contractual fine, damage
compensation and expense of realization of mortgage. If there is
an
agreement otherwise in the mortgage contract, it shall be
complied with.
£ £ Article 47£ At the date of expiration of the
debt performance period, if the debtor has not performed the
debt so that the gage has been distrained by the people's court,
from the date of distraining the mortgagee shall be entitled to
collect the natural fruits separated from the gage and the legal
fruits that the mortgagee may collect on the gage. If the
mortgagee has not informed the fact of the
distraining of the
gage to the obligatory person who shall satisfy the claim out of
proceeds for the legal fruits, the effect of mortgage shall not
extend to the said fruits.
£ £ The fruits of the proceeding
paragraph shall eliminate in advance the expense of collecting
the fruits.
£ £ Article 48£ If the mortgagor wants to mortgage a
property that has been leased, he
shall notify the leasee in writing, and the original lease
contract continues to be effective.
£ £ Article 49£ During the
period of mortgage, if the mortgagor assigns the gage
registered, he shall inform the mortgagee and also notify the
assignee of the situation that the grant has been mortgaged; if
the mortgagor does not inform the mortgagee or notify the
assignee, the assigning behavior shall be invalid.
£ £ If the value
amount of the gage assigned is obviously lower than its value,
the mortgagee may demand the mortgagor to offer the equivalent
guarantee; if the mortgagor does not offer, the gage shall
not
be assigned.
£ £ The value amount from assigning the gage by the
mortgagor shall satisfy in advance the mortgagee for the claim
out of the proceeds on the obligatory right guaranteed or be
deposited to the third party he
agreed with the mortgagee. The
part exceeding the amount of the obligatory right, shall be
owned by the mortgagor, while the short part shall be satisfied
by the debtor.
£ £ Article 50£ The mortgage right shall not be
separated from the obligatory right so that it is assigned
solely or as a guarantee of other obligatory
rights.
£ £ Article 51£ If the behavior of the mortgagor causes the
value of the gage to decrease, the mortgagee shall be entitled
to have right to demand the mortgagor to stop his behavior. When
the value of the gage decreases, the mortgagee shall be entitled
to have right to demand the mortgagor to restore the value of
the gage, or offer a guarantee equivalent to the value
decreased.
£ £ If the mortgagor has no fault for the decrease of
the value of the gage the mortgagee shall demand the mortgagee
to be offered only within the extent of compensation for the
damage obtained by the
mortgagor. The part of the gage of which
the value does not decrease, shall still be the guarantee of the
obligatory right.
£ £ Article 52£ The mortgage shall exist
simultaneously with the obligatory right it guarantees, where
the obligatory right is extinct, the mortgage shall be extinct
as well.
£ £ Section 4£ Realization of Mortgage
£ £ Article 53£ At
the date of expiration of the debt performance period if the
mortgagee has not been satisfied with the claim out of proceeds,
he may make an agreement with the mortgagor to keep the said
property to offset the gage or
satisfies his claim out of proceeds from the auction, sale of
the said gage; if failing to make an agreement, the mortgagor
may file a case to the People's Court.
£ £ After the gage is set
off, auctioned or sold, the part of the value amount exceeding
the amount of the obligatory right shall be owned by the
mortgagor, the short part shall be satisfied by the
debtor.
£ £ Article 54£ If there are two or more creditors who
have a mortgage on the same property,
the value amount obtained from the auction, sale of the gage
shall be satisfied pursuant to the following provisions:
£ £ 1.
where the mortgage contract is effective through registration,
it shall be satisfied in the registration sequence of the gage;
if equal in sequence, then it shall be satisfied according to
the proportion of the obligatory right; or
£ £ 2. where the
mortgage contract is effective as the date of signing, and the
said gage has been registered, it shall be satisfied according
to the item 1 of this Article; if the gage has not registered,
it shall be satisfied in the sequence of the effective date of
the contracts, and if equal in sequence, it shall be satisfied
according to the proportion of the obligatory right. The
registered gage has priority to the unregistered
gage.
£ £ Article 55£ After the signing of the city real estates
mortgage contract, the houses built lately upon the land shall
not belong to the gage. When the said mortgaged real estates is
needed to be
auctioned, the lately built houses upon the land
may be auctioned together with the gage, but as for the amount
from the auction of the lately built houses, the mortgagee shall
not be entitled to have
priority in satisfying the claim out of
proceeds.
£ £ Where the right to the use of land of the unreclaimed
land contracted for management according to this Law is to be
mortgaged, or the right to the use of the land within the extent
occupied by the
buildings of the township (town) or village
enterprises such as a plant is to be mortgaged, after the
realization of mortgage, the collective ownership and purpose of
the land shall not be changed without the legal procedure is
gone through.
£ £ Article 56£ The value amount obtained from the
auction of the right to the use of the stated-owned land
appropriated, after paying the amount equivalent to the transfer
fee of the right to the use of land which shall be paid, the
mortgagee shall be entitled to have right in priority for the
claim out of proceeds.
£ £ Article 57£ The third party who offers
guarantee of a mortgage on behalf of the debtor, after the
realization of the mortgage by the mortgagee, shall be entitled
to have right to claim repayment from the
debtor.
£ £ Article
58£ The mortgage right extinguishes with the extinction of the
gage. The compensation for the extinction shall be as the
mortgaged property.
£ £ Section
5£ Mortgage of the Maximum Amount
£ £ Article 59£ The mortgage of
the maximum amount prescribed in this Law, means that the
mortgagor and the mortgagee agree, within the extent of maximum
amount of the obligatory right, to take the gage as the
guarantee of the obligatory right occurred continuously during a
certain period.
£ £ Article 60£ A loan contract may be attached
with a mortgage contract of maximum amount.
£ £ The contract
signed by the creditor and debtor on a certain item commodity
with which the trade occurs continuously during a certain
period, may be attached with a mortgage contract of maximum
amount.
£ £ Article 61£ The obligatory right of the master contract
with the mortgage of maximum amount shall not be
assigned.
£ £ Article 62£ The mortgage of maximum amount shall,
besides that it is applied to the provisions of this section, be
applied to other provisions of this Chapter.
Chapter IV£ Pledge
£ £ Section 1£ Pledge of
Movables
£ £ Article 63£ The pledge of movables described in this
Law, means that the debtor or the party delivers his movables to
the creditor for possession, and takes the said movables as the
guarantee of the obligatory right. When the debtor does not
perform the debt, the creditor shall be entitled to have right
to keep the said movables to offset or have priority in
satisfying in the claim out of proceeds from
the value amount of
the auction or sale of the said movables.
£ £ The debtor or the
third party prescribed in the proceeding paragraph shall be a
pledgor, the creditor shall be a pledgee, the movables delivered
shall be the pledgings.
£ £ Article 64£ The pledgor and the pledgee
shall enter into a pledge contract in writing.
£ £ A pledge
contract shall be effective as the date of remitting the
pledgings to the pledgee.
£ £ Article 65£ A pledge contract
shall contain the following contents:
£ £ 1. the categories and
amount of the master obligation right
guaranteed;
£ £ 2. the
time period to perform the debt by the debtor;
£ £ 3. the name,
quantity, quality and situation of the pledgings;
£ £ 4. the extent
guaranteed by the pledge;
£ £ 5. the time to deliver the pledgings;
and
£ £ 6. other items which the parties consider necessary to
agree.
£ £ If a pledge contract has the contents incompletely
prescribed in the proceeding paragraph, it may be
supplemented.
£ £ Article 66£ The pledgor and the pledgee shall not
agree that, when the pledgee is not satisfied at date of
expiration of the time limitation for the debt performance, the
ownership of the pledgings is
to be transferred to the
pledgee.
£ £ Article 67£ The guaranteed scope of a pledge shall
conclude the master obligatory right and its interest,
contractual fine, damage compensation, expense for keeping the
pledgings and expense for
realization of pledge. If there is an
agreement otherwise in the pledge contract, it shall be complied
with.
£ £ Article 68£ The pledgee shall be entitled to have right to
collect the fruits produced by the pledgings. If there is an
agreement otherwise in the pledge contract, it shall be complied
with.
£ £ The fruits of the proceeding paragraph shall eliminate in
advance the expense of collecting the fruits.
£ £ Article
69£ The pledgee shall bear the obligation to keep the pledgings
properly. If he does not keep the pledgings properly so that
the
pledgings are extinct or damaged, the pledgee shall bear the civil liability.
£ £ If the pledgee cannot keep the pledgings
properly which probably cause the extinction or damage of the
pledgings, the pledgor may demand the pledgee to have the
pledgings to be deposited, or demand to satisfy the obligatory
right before the date of expiration in order that the pledgings
can be returned.
£ £ Article 70£ If there is a probability of damage
of or obvious deduction of the value of the pledgings that is
enough to hurt the rights of the pledgee, the pledgee may demand
the pledgor to offer the
relevant guarantee. If the pledgor does
not offer the guarantee, the pledgee may auction or sell the
pledgings, and make an agreement with the pledgor that the value
amount obtained from the auction or sale is used to satisfy the
obligatory right guaranteed before the date of expiration or to
be deposited to the third party whom he agrees with the
pledgor.
£ £ Article 71£ At the date of expiration of the debt
performance time limitation if the debtor has performed the
debt, or the pledgor has satisfied the obligatory right
guaranteed before the date of
expiration, the pledgee shall
return the pledgings.
£ £ At the date of expiration of the debt
performance time limitation if the pledgee has not been
satisfied, he may make an agreement with the pledgor to keep the
pledgings to offset, or to auction, sell the pledgings.
£ £ After the pledgings are kept to offset or
auctioned, sold, the part that the value amount exceeds the
amount of the obligatory right shall be owned by the pledgor,
the short part shall be satisfied by
the debtor.
£ £ Article
72£ The third party who offers the guarantee of a pledge on
behalf of the debtor shall, after the realization of the pledge by
the pledgee, be entitled to have right to claim repayment from
the debtor.
£ £ Article 73£ The right of the pledge extinguishes
with the extinction of the pledgings. The compensation for the
extinction shall be as the pledged property.
£ £ Article 74£ The pledge shall be
existed simultaneously with the obligatory right it guarantees,
where the obligatory right is extinct, the pledge is extinct as
well.
£ £ Section 2£ Pledge of Rights
£ £ Article 75£ The following
rights may be pledged:
£ £ 1. a bill of exchange, check, promissory
note, bond, deposit receipt, bill of lading or warehouse
receipt;
£ £ 2. the share or share paper which may be assigned
according to the law;
£ £ 3. the property right of the exclusive right to use
trademark, patent right, copyright which may be assigned
according to the law; or
£ £ 4. other rights which may be pledged
according to the law;
£ £ Article 76£ Where the bill of exchange,
check, promissory note, bond, deposit receipt, bill of lading or
warehouse receipt is to be pledged, the right voucher shall be
delivered to the pledgee within
the time limitation agreed in
the contract. The pledge contract shall be effective from the
date of delivery of the right voucher.
£ £ Article 77£ Where the
bill of exchange, check, promissory note, bond, deposit receipt,
bill of lading or warehouse receipt with clear record of the
date of cashing or delivery of the goods is to be
pledged, if
the date of cashing or delivery of the goods is before
expiration of the debt performance time period, the pledgee may
make a cashing or delivery of the goods before the date of
expiration of the
debt performance time period, and make an
agreement with the pledgor that the value amount cashed or the
goods delivered is to be used to satisfy the obligatory right
guaranteed before the date of expiration or to be deposited to
the third party he agrees with the pledgee.
£ £ Article 78£ Where
the share paper that may be assigned according to the law is to
be pledged, the pledgor and the pledgee shall enter into a
written contract, and go through the pledge registration to the
security registration institution. The pledge contract shall be
effective as the date of registration.
£ £ After the share
paper is pledged, it shall not be assigned, however it may be
assigned with the agreement between the pledgor and the pledgee.
The value amount obtained from the assignment of the
shares by
the pledgor shall be used to satisfy the pledgee the obligatory right guaranteed before the date of expiration or to be
deposited to the third party he agrees with the
pledgee.
£ £ Where the shares of a limited liability corporation
are to be pledged, it shall be applied to the concerned
provisions of the Corporation Law on the assignment of shares.
The pledge contract shall
be effective as the date of recording
the pledge of the shares in the shareholders' name
list.
£ £ Article 79£ Where the property
right of the exclusive right to use trademark, patent right or
copyright which may be assigned according to the law is to be
pledged, the pledgor and the pledgee
shall enter into a written
contract, and go through the pledge registration to its
administration department. The pledge contract shall be
effective as of the date of registration.
£ £ Article 80£ After the
right prescribed in Article 79 is pledged, the pledgor shall not
assign or permit others to use them, however it may be assigned
with the agreement between the pledgor and the
pledgee. The
assignment fee, permission fee obtained by the pledgor shall be
used to satisfy the obligatory right of the pledgee guaranteed before the date of expiration or to be deposited to the third
party he agrees with the pledgee.
£ £ Article 81£ The pledge of
rights shall, besides that it is applied to the provisions of
this section, be applied to other provisions of Section 1 in
this Chapter.
Chapter V£ Lien
£ £ Article 82£ The lien
prescribed in this Law means that, according to the provisions
of Article 84 in this Law, the creditor possess the property of the debtor according to the
agreement of the contract, if
the debtor does not perform the
debt pursuant to the time limitation agreed in the contract, the
creditor shall be entitled to have right to have a lien on the
said property according to this Law, to
keep the said property to offset or
have priority in satisfying for the claim out of proceeds from
the value amount of the auction, sale of the said property.
£ £ Article 83£ The guaranteed scope
of a lien shall conclude the master obligatory right and its
interest, contractual fine, damage compensation, expense for
keeping the subject with a lien and expense for realization of
the right of lien.
£ £ Article 84£ As for the obligatory right
occurred with the contract of safekeeping, contract of carriage
or contract for processing work, if the debtor does not perform
the debt, the creditor shall be entitled to have a lien on it.
£ £ Other contracts in which a lien may be agreed prescribed by
the laws, shall be applied to the provisions of the proceeding
paragraph.
£ £ The parties may agree in the contract the subject
that shall not be had with a lien.
£ £ Article 85£ If the property with a lien is separable, the value of
the subject with a lien shall be equal to the amount of the
debt.
£ £ Article 86£ The lienor shall bear the obligation to keep
the subject with a lien properly. If he does not keep the
subject with a lien properly so that the subject with a lien is
extinct or damaged,
the lienor shall bear the civil
liability.
£ £ Article 87£ The creditor and the debtor shall agree
in the contract that, after the creditor has a lien on the property, the debtor shall perform the debt
within the time limitation that shall not be less than 2 months.
If the creditor and the debtor have not agreed in the contract,
after the creditor has a lien on the property of the debtor, he shall determine
a time limitation of more than 2 months, inform the debtor to
perform the debt within the said time limitation.
£ £ If the
debtor does not perform the debt yet at the date of expiration
of the time limitation, the creditor may make an agreement with
the debtor to keep the subject with a lien to offset, and may
also auction, sell the subject with a lien according to the
law.
£ £ After the subject with a lien is kept to offset or
auctioned, sold, the part of which the value amount exceeds the
amount of the obligatory right shall be owned by the debtor, the
short part shall be satisfied by the debtor.
£ £ Article 88£ The
right of lien extinguishes,
£ £ 1. if the obligatory right
extinguishes; or
£ £ 2. if the debtor offers guarantee otherwise
and it is accepted by the creditor.
Chapter
VI£ Deposit
£ £ Article 89£ The parties may agree that one party will
pay the deposit to another party as guarantee. After the debtor
performs the debt, the deposit shall offset the value amount or
be returned. If the party who pays the deposit does not perform
the debt, he shall not be entitled to have right to demand the
deposit to be returned; if the party who accepts the deposit
does not perform the debt, he shall return twice the amount of
the deposit.
£ £ Article 90£ The deposit shall be agreed in writing.
The parties shall agree the time limitation to pay the deposit
in the deposit contract. The deposit contract shall be effective
as the date of
actual payment of the deposit.
£ £ Article
91£ The amount of the deposit shall be determined by the parties,
but shall not exceed 20 percent of the target amount of the
master contract.
Chapter VII£ Supplementary
Provisions
£ £ Article 92£ The real estate prescribed in this Law
indicates the land and the fixtures upon the land such as a
house or woods.
£ £ The movables prescribed in this Law indicates
the subjects except the real estate.
£ £ Article 93£ The
guaranty contract, mortgage contract, pledge contract, deposit
contract prescribed in this Law may be a written contract
entered into separately, including the mails or letters,
faxes
between the parties which have the nature of guarantee, and may
also be the guarantee articles in the master
contract.
£ £ Article 94£ When the gage, pledgings and subject with
a lien is offset or sold, the market price shall be refereed
to.
£ £ Article 95£ If any law such as the Maritime Code has
specific provisions on the guarantee, they shall be complied
with.
£ £ Article 96£ This Law shall become effective on the date of
October 1, 1995.
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