# 仲裁法 / Arbitration Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-56. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 仲裁法 (Arbitration Act), 平成十五年法律第百三十八号 - English title "Arbitration 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（没収及び追徴） — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（没収及び追徴） — (Confiscation and Collection of a Sum of Equivalent Value) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-56 **第一項** 犯人又は情を知った第三者が収受した賄賂は、没収する。その全部又は一部を没収することができないときは、その価額を追徴する。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-56/par-1 A bribe accepted by an offender or by a third party who knows the circumstances is to be confiscated. When the whole or a part of the bribe cannot be confiscated, the value of that bribe is to be collected. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 仲裁法 第五十八条第一項（国外犯） — https://japanlaw.org/en/arbitration-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000138/art-58/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 仲裁法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000138/20260521_504AC0000000048), retrieved 2026-11-01 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Arbitration Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4440/tb), retrieved 2026-11-01 - This site's parser, version 219 — 仲裁法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01