# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第五十条 (Article 50) - 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: 第五十条 (Article 50)（開始後の破産者に対する弁済の効力） — address `art-50` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-50 - 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. --- ### 第五十条（開始後の破産者に対する弁済の効力） — (Effect of Payment to the Bankrupt After Commencement of Bankruptcy Proceedings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-50 **第一項** 破産手続開始後に、その事実を知らないで破産者にした弁済は、破産手続の関係においても、その効力を主張することができる。 art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-50/par-1 Payment made to the bankrupt after the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings without knowing the commencement may also be asserted effective in relation to the bankruptcy proceedings. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 破産手続開始後に、その事実を知って破産者にした弁済は、破産財団が受けた利益の限度においてのみ、破産手続の関係において、その効力を主張することができる。 art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-50/par-2 Payment made to the bankrupt after the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings with the knowledge of the commencement may be asserted effective in relation to the bankruptcy proceedings only to the extent that the bankruptcy estate has been enriched. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第五十一条第一項（善意又は悪意の推定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-51/par-1 - 破産法 第九十六条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-96/par-1 --- ## 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