# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百八十五条 (Article 185) - 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: 第百八十五条 (Article 185)（別除権者が処分をすべき期間の指定） — address `art-185` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185 - 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. --- ### 第百八十五条（別除権者が処分をすべき期間の指定） — (Designation of the Period for Disposal by Holders of Rights of Separate Satisfaction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-185 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185 **第一項** 別除権者が法律に定められた方法によらないで別除権の目的である財産の処分をする権利を有するときは、裁判所は、破産管財人の申立てにより、別除権者がその処分をすべき期間を定めることができる。 art-185/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/par-1 If a holder of a right of separate satisfaction has a right to dispose of the collateral for the right of separate satisfaction by means other than that prescribed by law, upon the petition of a bankruptcy trustee, the court may specify a period during which the holder of the right of separate satisfaction should dispose of the collateral. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 別除権者は、前項の期間内に処分をしないときは、同項の権利を失う。 art-185/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/par-2 A holder of a right of separate satisfaction that fails to dispose the collateral within the period stated in the preceding paragraph loses the right referred to in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の申立てについての裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-185/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/par-3 An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision on the petition referred to in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の申立てについての裁判及び前項の即時抗告についての裁判があった場合には、その裁判書を当事者に送達しなければならない。この場合においては、第十条第三項本文の規定は、適用しない。 art-185/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/par-4 When a judicial decision on the petition referred to in paragraph (1) and a judicial decision on the immediate appeal referred to in the preceding paragraph are made, the written judgments must be served upon the parties concerned. In this case, the provisions of the main clause of Article 10, paragraph (3) do not apply. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-185/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第百八十五条第一項 (Article 185, paragraph (1)), art-185/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/par-1 - art-185/par-3: 第一項 → 破産法 第百八十五条第一項 (Article 185, paragraph (1)), art-185/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/par-1 - art-185/par-4: 第一項 → 破産法 第百八十五条第一項 (Article 185, paragraph (1)), art-185/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/par-1 - art-185/par-4: 前項 → 破産法 第百八十五条第三項 (Article 185, paragraph (3)), art-185/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/par-3 - art-185/par-4: 第十条第三項 → 破産法 第十条第三項 (Article 10, paragraph (3)), art-10/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-10/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第百八十五条第二項（別除権者が処分をすべき期間の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/par-2 - 破産法 第百八十五条第三項（別除権者が処分をすべき期間の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/par-3 - 破産法 第百八十五条第四項（別除権者が処分をすべき期間の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-185/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-185/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch bankruptcy-act-20261019T021325-002, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19