# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百七十二条 (Article 172) - 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: 第百七十二条 (Article 172)（保全処分に係る手続の続行と担保の取扱い） — address `art-172` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172 - 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. --- ### 第百七十二条（保全処分に係る手続の続行と担保の取扱い） — (Continuation of Procedures for Provisional Orders and Handling of Security) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-172 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172 **第一項** 前条第一項（同条第七項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による保全処分が命じられた場合において、破産手続開始の決定があったときは、破産管財人は、当該保全処分に係る手続を続行することができる。 art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172/par-1 When a provisional order under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (7) of that Article) is issued, if an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is made, a bankruptcy trustee may continue the procedures for the provisional order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 破産管財人が破産手続開始の決定後一月以内に前項の規定により同項の保全処分に係る手続を続行しないときは、当該保全処分は、その効力を失う。 art-172/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172/par-2 If a bankruptcy trustee does not continue the procedures for the provisional order referred to in the preceding paragraph pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph within one month after an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is made, the provisional order ceases to be effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 破産管財人は、第一項の規定により同項の保全処分に係る手続を続行しようとする場合において、前条第二項（同条第七項において準用する場合を含む。）に規定する担保の全部又は一部が破産財団に属する財産でないときは、その担保の全部又は一部を破産財団に属する財産による担保に変換しなければならない。 art-172/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172/par-3 When a bankruptcy trustee seeks to continue the procedures for the provisional order referred to in paragraph (1) pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, if the whole or part of the security prescribed in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (7) of that Article) does not belong to the bankruptcy estate, the bankruptcy trustee must substitute the whole or part of the security with another security by way of property that belongs to the bankruptcy estate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 民事保全法（平成元年法律第九十一号）第十八条並びに第二章第四節（第三十七条第五項から第七項までを除く。）及び第五節の規定は、第一項の規定により破産管財人が続行する手続に係る保全処分について準用する。 art-172/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172/par-4 The provisions of Article 18, and Chapter II, Section 4 (excluding Article 37, paragraphs (5) through (7)) and Section 5 of the Civil Provisional Remedies Act (Act No. 91 of 1989) apply mutatis mutandis to a provisional order issued for the proceedings to be continued by a bankruptcy trustee pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-172/par-1: 前条第一項 → 破産法 第百七十一条第一項 (Article 171, paragraph (1)), art-171/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-171/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-171/par-1 - art-172/par-1: 同条第七項 → 破産法 第百七十一条第七項 (Article 171, paragraph (7)), art-171/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-171/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-171/par-7 - art-172/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第百七十二条第一項 (Article 172, paragraph (1)), art-172/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172/par-1 - art-172/par-3: 第一項 → 破産法 第百七十二条第一項 (Article 172, paragraph (1)), art-172/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172/par-1 - art-172/par-3: 前条第二項 → 破産法 第百七十一条第二項 (Article 171, paragraph (2)), art-171/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-171/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-171/par-2 - art-172/par-3: 同条第七項 → 破産法 第百七十一条第七項 (Article 171, paragraph (7)), art-171/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-171/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-171/par-7 - art-172/par-4: 民事保全法（平成元年法律第九十一号）第十八条 → e-Gov law 401AC0000000091, 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — not held in this collection - art-172/par-4: 第三十七条第五項から第七項まで → e-Gov law 401AC0000000091, 第三十七条第五項 (Article 37, paragraph (5)), art-37/par-5 — not held in this collection - art-172/par-4: 第一項 → 破産法 第百七十二条第一項 (Article 172, paragraph (1)), art-172/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第百七十二条第二項（保全処分に係る手続の続行と担保の取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172/par-2 - 破産法 第百七十二条第三項（保全処分に係る手続の続行と担保の取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172/par-3 - 破産法 第百七十二条第四項（保全処分に係る手続の続行と担保の取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-172/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-172/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