# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（賃貸借契約等） — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（賃貸借契約等） — (Lease Contracts) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-56 **第一項** 第五十三条第一項及び第二項の規定は、賃借権その他の使用及び収益を目的とする権利を設定する契約について破産者の相手方が当該権利につき登記、登録その他の第三者に対抗することができる要件を備えている場合には、適用しない。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-56/par-1 The provisions of Article 53, paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply when the counterparty of the bankrupt under a contract for the establishment of a leasehold or any other right of use or extracting profit has a registration or meets any other requirement for duly asserting the right against any third party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する場合には、相手方の有する請求権は、財団債権とする。 art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-56/par-2 In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, a claim held by the counterparty is a claim on the estate. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-56/par-1: 第五十三条第一項 → 破産法 第五十三条第一項 (Article 53, paragraph (1)), art-53/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-53/par-1 - art-56/par-1: 第二項 → 破産法 第五十三条第二項 (Article 53, paragraph (2)), art-53/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-53/par-2 - art-56/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-56/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第五十六条第二項（賃貸借契約等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-56/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