# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百三条 (Article 203) - 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: 第二百三条 (Article 203)（破産管財人に知れていない財団債権者の取扱い） — address `art-203` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-203 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-203 - 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. --- ### 第二百三条（破産管財人に知れていない財団債権者の取扱い） — (Handling of Holders of Claims on Estates Unknown to Bankruptcy Trustees) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-203 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-203 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-203 **第一項** 第二百一条第七項の規定による配当額の通知を発した時に破産管財人に知れていない財団債権者は、最後配当をすることができる金額をもって弁済を受けることができない。 art-203/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-203/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-203/par-1 A holder of a claim on the estate that is unknown to a bankruptcy trustee at the time when a notice of the amount of distribution pursuant to the provisions of Article 201, paragraph (7) is given may not receive payment by using the amount available for a final distribution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-203/par-1: 第二百一条第七項 → 破産法 第二百一条第七項 (Article 201, paragraph (7)), art-201/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-201/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-201/par-7 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百五条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-205/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-205/par-1 - 破産法 第二百八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-208/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-208/par-3 - 破産法 第二百九条第三項（中間配当） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-209/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-209/par-3 - 破産法 第二百十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-215/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-215/par-2 --- ## 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