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Article 253Effect of Order to Grant Discharges

第二百五十三条(免責許可の決定の効力等)

When an order to grant a discharge becomes final and binding, the bankrupt is discharged from their liabilities for bankruptcy claims, except for distribution in bankruptcy proceedings; provided, however, that this does not apply to the following claims:

免責許可の決定が確定したときは、破産者は、破産手続による配当を除き、破産債権について、その責任を免れる。ただし、次に掲げる請求権については、この限りでない。

a claim for tax, etc. (excluding a claim for a foreign tax subject to mutual assistance);

租税等の請求権(共助対象外国租税の請求権を除く。)

a claim for damages for a tort that the bankrupt has committed in bad faith;

破産者が悪意で加えた不法行為に基づく損害賠償請求権

a claim for damages for a tort that harms the life or body of another person which the bankrupt has committed intentionally or by gross negligence (excluding the claim stated in the preceding item);

破産者が故意又は重大な過失により加えた人の生命又は身体を害する不法行為に基づく損害賠償請求権(前号に掲げる請求権を除く。)

a claim related to any of the following obligations:

次に掲げる義務に係る請求権

the obligation to cooperate and provide mutual assistance between husband and wife under the provisions of Article 752 of the Civil Code;

民法第七百五十二条の規定による夫婦間の協力及び扶助の義務

the obligation to share expenses arising from marriage under the provisions of Article 760 of the Civil Code;

民法第七百六十条の規定による婚姻から生ずる費用の分担の義務

the obligation concerning the custody of a child under the provisions of Article 766 and Article 766-3 of the Civil Code (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 749, Article 771, and Article 788 of that Code);

民法第七百六十六条及び第七百六十六条の三(これらの規定を同法第七百四十九条、第七百七十一条及び第七百八十八条において準用する場合を含む。)の規定による子の監護に関する義務

the obligation of support under the provisions of Articles 877 through 880 of the Civil Code;

any obligation similar to those stated in sub-items (a) through (d) above, which are under a contract;

イからニまでに掲げる義務に類する義務であって、契約に基づくもの

a claim of an employee and a claim for return of an employee's deposit, which have arisen from an employment relationship;

雇用関係に基づいて生じた使用人の請求権及び使用人の預り金の返還請求権

a claim that the bankrupt has not stated in the list of holders of dischargeable claims knowing its existence (excluding a claim held by a person that knew that an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings against the bankrupt has been made); or

破産者が知りながら債権者名簿に記載しなかった請求権(当該破産者について破産手続開始の決定があったことを知っていた者の有する請求権を除く。)

An order to grant a discharge does not affect any rights held by bankruptcy creditors against the bankrupt's guarantor or any other person that owes debts jointly with the bankrupt and any security provided by persons other than the bankrupt in the interest of bankruptcy creditors.

免責許可の決定は、破産債権者が破産者の保証人その他破産者と共に債務を負担する者に対して有する権利及び破産者以外の者が破産債権者のために供した担保に影響を及ぼさない。

If an order to grant a discharge has become final and binding, when there is a schedule of bankruptcy creditors, the court clerk must enter in it to the effect that the order to grant a discharge has become final and binding.

免責許可の決定が確定した場合において、破産債権者表があるときは、裁判所書記官は、これに免責許可の決定が確定した旨を記載しなければならない。

Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), the effect of discharge under the provisions of that paragraph with regard to a claim for a foreign tax subject to mutual assistance may be asserted only in relation to the mutual assistance under the provisions of .

第一項の規定にかかわらず、共助対象外国租税の請求権についての同項の規定による免責の効力は、の規定による共助との関係においてのみ主張することができる。

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