# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百五十一条 (Article 251) - 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: 第二百五十一条 (Article 251)（免責についての意見申述） — address `art-251` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251 - 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. --- ### 第二百五十一条（免責についての意見申述） — (Statements of Opinions on Discharge) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-251 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251 **第一項** 裁判所は、免責許可の申立てがあったときは、破産手続開始の決定があった時以後、破産者につき免責許可の決定をすることの当否について、破産管財人及び破産債権者（第二百五十三条第一項各号に掲げる請求権を有する者を除く。次項、次条第三項及び第二百五十四条において同じ。）が裁判所に対し意見を述べることができる期間を定めなければならない。 art-251/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251/par-1 When a petition to grant discharge is filed, the court must specify a period, on or after the time when an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings was made, during which a bankruptcy trustee and bankruptcy creditors (excluding those who hold claims stated in the items of Article 253, paragraph (1); the same applies in the following paragraph, paragraph (3) of the following Article, and Article 254) may state their opinions to the court with regard to whether or not it is appropriate to issue an order to grant discharge to the bankrupt. machine translation, not official **第二項** 裁判所は、前項の期間を定める決定をしたときは、その期間を公告し、かつ、破産管財人及び知れている破産債権者にその期間を通知しなければならない。 art-251/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251/par-2 When the court has made an order to specify the period referred to in the preceding paragraph, it must give a public notice of the period and give a notice of the period to a bankruptcy trustee and known bankruptcy creditors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の期間は、前項の規定による公告が効力を生じた日から起算して一月以上でなければならない。 art-251/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251/par-3 The period referred to in paragraph (1) must be at least one month from the day on which the public notice made under the provisions of the preceding paragraph becomes effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-251/par-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-251/par-1: 次項 → 破産法 第二百五十一条第二項 (Article 251, paragraph (2)), art-251/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251/par-2 - art-251/par-1: 次条第三項 → 破産法 第二百五十二条第三項 (Article 252, paragraph (3)), art-252/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-252/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-252/par-3 - art-251/par-1: 第二百五十四条 → 破産法 第二百五十四条 (Article 254), art-254 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-254 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-254 - art-251/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第二百五十一条第一項 (Article 251, paragraph (1)), art-251/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251/par-1 - art-251/par-3: 第一項 → 破産法 第二百五十一条第一項 (Article 251, paragraph (1)), art-251/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251/par-1 - art-251/par-3: 前項 → 破産法 第二百五十一条第二項 (Article 251, paragraph (2)), art-251/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百五十一条第一項（免責についての意見申述） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251/par-1 - 破産法 第二百五十一条第二項（免責についての意見申述） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251/par-2 - 破産法 第二百五十一条第三項（免責についての意見申述） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-251/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-251/par-3 --- ## 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