# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第五十七条 (Article 57) - 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: 第五十七条 (Article 57)（委任契約） — address `art-57` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-57 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-57 - 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. --- ### 第五十七条（委任契約） — (Contract of Mandate) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-57 **第一項** 委任者について破産手続が開始された場合において、受任者は、民法第六百五十五条の規定による破産手続開始の通知を受けず、かつ、破産手続開始の事実を知らないで委任事務を処理したときは、これによって生じた債権について、破産債権者としてその権利を行使することができる。 art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-57/par-1 When bankruptcy proceedings are commenced against the mandator, if they have administered the mandated business without receiving a notice of commencement of bankruptcy proceedings under the provisions of Article 655 of the Civil Code and also without knowing the fact of the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, the mandatary may exercise their right to a claim arising from the above mentioned administration as a bankruptcy creditor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-57/par-1: 民法第六百五十五条 → 民法 第六百五十五条 (Article 655), art-655 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-655 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-655 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第九十七条第一項第九号（破産債権に含まれる請求権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-97/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-97/par-1/item-9 --- ## 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