# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百四十九条 (Article 249) - 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: 第二百四十九条 (Article 249)（強制執行の禁止等） — address `art-249` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249 - 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. --- ### 第二百四十九条（強制執行の禁止等） — (Prohibition of Enforcement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-249 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249 **第一項** 免責許可の申立てがあり、かつ、第二百十六条第一項の規定による破産手続廃止の決定、第二百十七条第一項の規定による破産手続廃止の決定の確定又は第二百二十条第一項の規定による破産手続終結の決定があったときは、当該申立てについての裁判が確定するまでの間は、破産者の財産に対する破産債権に基づく強制執行、仮差押え、仮処分若しくは外国租税滞納処分若しくは破産債権を被担保債権とする一般の先取特権の実行若しくは留置権（商法又は会社法の規定によるものを除く。）による競売（以下この条において「破産債権に基づく強制執行等」という。）、破産債権に基づく財産開示手続若しくは第三者からの情報取得手続の申立て又は破産者の財産に対する破産債権に基づく国税滞納処分（外国租税滞納処分を除く。）はすることができず、破産債権に基づく強制執行等の手続又は処分で破産者の財産に対して既にされているもの並びに破産者について既にされている破産債権に基づく財産開示手続及び第三者からの情報取得手続は中止する。 art-249/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-1 If a petition for grant of discharge is filed and an order of discontinuance of bankruptcy proceedings under the provisions of Article 216, paragraph (1) is issued, an order of discontinuance of bankruptcy proceedings made under the provisions of Article 217, paragraph (1) has become final and binding, or an order of termination of bankruptcy proceedings under the provisions of Article 220, paragraph (1) is issued, until a judicial decision on the petition becomes final and binding, it is not allowed to enforce a enforcement, provisional seizure, provisional disposition or disposal of foreign tax delinquency based on a bankruptcy claim, or exercise a general statutory lien or auction on the grounds of a right of retention (excluding a right of retention under the provisions of the Commercial Code or the Companies Act) against the bankrupt's property (referred to below as "enforcement, etc. based on a bankruptcy claim" in this Article), or to file a petition for an asset disclosure procedure or procedure for acquiring information from a third party based on a bankruptcy claim or make a collection of national tax delinquency (excluding a disposal of foreign tax delinquency) against the bankrupt's property, and any procedure for enforcement, etc. or disposition based on a bankruptcy claim already initiated against the bankrupt's property and asset disclosure procedure and procedure for acquiring information from a third party based on a bankruptcy claim already initiated against the bankrupt is to be suspended. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a petition for grant of discharge is filed and an order of discontinuance of bankruptcy proceedings under the provisions of Article 216, paragraph (1) is issued, an order of discontinuance of bankruptcy proceedings made under the provisions of Article 217, paragraph (1) has become final and binding, or an order of termination of bankruptcy proceedings under the provisions of Article 220, paragraph (1) is issued, until a judicial decision on the petition becomes final and binding, it is not allowed to enforce a enforcement, provisional seizure, provisional disposition or disposal of foreign tax delinquency based on a bankruptcy claim, or exercise a general statutory lien or auction on the grounds of a right of retention (excluding a right of retention under the provisions of the Commercial Code or the Companies Act) against the bankrupt's property (referred to below as "enforcement, etc. based on a bankruptcy claim" in this Article), or to file a petition for a property disclosure procedure or procedure for acquiring information from a third party based on a bankruptcy claim or make a collection of national tax delinquency (excluding a disposal of foreign tax delinquency) against the bankrupt's property, and any procedure for enforcement, etc. or disposition based on a bankruptcy claim already initiated against the bankrupt's property and property disclosure procedure and procedure for acquiring information from a third party based on a bankruptcy claim already initiated against the bankrupt is to be suspended." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb **第二項** 免責許可の決定が確定したときは、前項の規定により中止した破産債権に基づく強制執行等の手続又は処分並びに破産債権に基づく財産開示手続及び第三者からの情報取得手続は、その効力を失う。 art-249/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-2 When an order of grant of discharge becomes final and binding, the procedure for enforcement, etc. based on a bankruptcy claim or disposition, and the asset disclosure procedure and procedure for acquiring information from a third party based on a bankruptcy claim which have been suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph cease to be effective. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When an order of grant of discharge becomes final and binding, the procedure for enforcement, etc. based on a bankruptcy claim or disposition, and the property disclosure procedure and procedure for acquiring information from a third party based on a bankruptcy claim which have been suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph cease to be effective." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb **第三項** 第一項の場合において、次の各号に掲げる破産債権については、それぞれ当該各号に定める決定が確定した日の翌日から二月を経過する日までの間は、時効は、完成しない。 art-249/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-3 In the case referred to in paragraph (1), the prescription period does not expire with regard to a bankruptcy claim stated in each of the following items, until the day on which two months have elapsed since the day following the day on which the order specified in the respective items becomes final and binding: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第二百五十三条第一項各号に掲げる請求権　免責許可の申立てについての決定 art-249/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-3/item-1 a claim stated in each item of Article 253, paragraph (1):an order on a petition for grant of discharge; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 前号に掲げる請求権以外の破産債権　免責許可の申立てを却下した決定又は免責不許可の決定 art-249/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-3/item-2 a bankruptcy claim other than the claim stated in the preceding item:an order dismissing a petition to grant discharge or order of non-grant of discharge. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-249/par-1: 第二百十六条第一項 → 破産法 第二百十六条第一項 (Article 216, paragraph (1)), art-216/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-216/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-216/par-1 - art-249/par-1: 第二百十七条第一項 → 破産法 第二百十七条第一項 (Article 217, paragraph (1)), art-217/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-217/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-217/par-1 - art-249/par-1: 第二百二十条第一項 → 破産法 第二百二十条第一項 (Article 220, paragraph (1)), art-220/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-220/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-220/par-1 - art-249/par-1: この条 → 破産法 第二百四十九条 (Article 249), art-249 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249 - art-249/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第二百四十九条第一項 (Article 249, paragraph (1)), art-249/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-1 - art-249/par-3: 第一項 → 破産法 第二百四十九条第一項 (Article 249, paragraph (1)), art-249/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-1 - art-249/par-3/item-1: 第二百五十三条第一項 → 破産法 第二百五十三条第一項 (Article 253, paragraph (1)), art-253/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-253/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-253/par-1 - art-249/par-3/item-2: 前号 → 破産法 第二百四十九条第三項第一号 (Article 249, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-249/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-3/item-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第四十二条第六項（他の手続の失効等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-42/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-42/par-6 - 破産法 第二百四十九条第一項（強制執行の禁止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-1 - 破産法 第二百四十九条第二項（強制執行の禁止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-2 - 破産法 第二百四十九条第三項（強制執行の禁止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-3 - 破産法 第二百四十九条第三項第二号（強制執行の禁止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-249/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-249/par-3/item-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act (破産法), Article 249, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4895/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Bankruptcy Act (破産法), Article 249, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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