# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百五十条 (Article 250) - 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: 第二百五十条 (Article 250)（免責についての調査及び報告） — address `art-250` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-250 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-250 - 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. --- ### 第二百五十条（免責についての調査及び報告） — (Investigations and Reports on Discharge) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-250 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-250 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-250 **第一項** 裁判所は、破産管財人に、第二百五十二条第一項各号に掲げる事由の有無又は同条第二項の規定による免責許可の決定をするかどうかの判断に当たって考慮すべき事情についての調査をさせ、その結果を書面で報告させることができる。 art-250/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-250/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-250/par-1 The court may have a bankruptcy trustee conduct an investigation on the existence or nonexistence of any of the grounds stated in the items of Article 252, paragraph (1) or the circumstances to be considered when determining whether or not to issue an order of grant of discharge pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article, and report the results of the investigation in writing. machine translation, not official **第二項** 破産者は、前項に規定する事項について裁判所が行う調査又は同項の規定により破産管財人が行う調査に協力しなければならない。 art-250/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-250/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-250/par-2 The bankrupt must cooperate in investigations on the particulars prescribed in the preceding paragraph conducted by the court or investigation conducted by a bankruptcy trustee pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-250/par-1: 第二百五十二条第一項 → 破産法 第二百五十二条第一項 (Article 252, paragraph (1)), art-252/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-252/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-252/par-1 - art-250/par-1: 同条第二項 → 破産法 第二百五十二条第二項 (Article 252, paragraph (2)), art-252/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-252/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-252/par-2 - art-250/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第二百五十条第一項 (Article 250, paragraph (1)), art-250/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-250/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-250/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百五十条第二項（免責についての調査及び報告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-250/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-250/par-2 - 破産法 第二百五十二条第一項第十一号（免責許可の決定の要件等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-252/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-252/par-1/item-11 --- ## 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-20261019T021325-003, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19