# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百八条 (Article 108) - Law: 破産法 (Bankruptcy Act), 平成十六年法律第七十五号 - English title "Bankruptcy 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: 第百八条 (Article 108)（別除権者等の手続参加） — address `art-108` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-108 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-108 - 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. --- ### 第百八条（別除権者等の手続参加） — (Participation in Proceedings by Holders of Right of Separate Satisfaction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-108 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-108 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-108 **第一項** 別除権者は、当該別除権に係る第六十五条第二項に規定する担保権によって担保される債権については、その別除権の行使によって弁済を受けることができない債権の額についてのみ、破産債権者としてその権利を行使することができる。ただし、当該担保権によって担保される債権の全部又は一部が破産手続開始後に担保されないこととなった場合には、その債権の当該全部又は一部の額について、破産債権者としてその権利を行使することを妨げない。 art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-108/par-1 With regard to a claim secured by a security interest prescribed in Article 65, paragraph (2) which pertains to the right of separate satisfaction, a holder of a right of separate satisfaction may exercise their right as a bankruptcy creditor only for the amount of the claim for which payment cannot be received by exercising the right of separate satisfaction; provided, however, that if the amount of the claim secured by the security interest is no longer secured in whole or in part after the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, the holder of the right of separate satisfaction is not precluded from exercising their right as a bankruptcy creditor for the whole or part of the amount of the claim. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 破産財団に属しない破産者の財産につき特別の先取特権、質権若しくは抵当権を有する者又は破産者につき更に破産手続開始の決定があった場合における前の破産手続において破産債権を有する者も、前項と同様とする。 art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-108/par-2 The preceding paragraph also applies to a person that holds a special statutory lien, pledge, or mortgage on the bankrupt's property that does not belong to the bankruptcy estate or a person that holds a bankruptcy claim in the previous bankruptcy proceedings when an additional order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued against the bankrupt. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-108/par-1: 第六十五条第二項 → 破産法 第六十五条第二項 (Article 65, paragraph (2)), art-65/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-65/par-2 - art-108/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第百八条第一項 (Article 108, paragraph (1)), art-108/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-108/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第百八条第二項（別除権者等の手続参加） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-108/par-2 - 破産法 第百十一条第三項（破産債権の届出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-111/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-111/par-3 - 破産法 第百十七条第一項第四号（認否書の作成及び提出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-117/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-117/par-1/item-4 - 破産法 第百九十六条第四項（配当表） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-196/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-196/par-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 破産法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416AC0000000075/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19