# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第八十一条 (Article 81) - 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: 第八十一条 (Article 81)（郵便物等の管理） — address `art-81` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81 - 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. --- ### 第八十一条（郵便物等の管理） — (Management of Postal Items) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81 **第一項** 裁判所は、破産管財人の職務の遂行のため必要があると認めるときは、信書の送達の事業を行う者に対し、破産者にあてた郵便物又は民間事業者による信書の送達に関する法律（平成十四年法律第九十九号）第二条第三項に規定する信書便物（次条及び第百十八条第五項において「郵便物等」という。）を破産管財人に配達すべき旨を嘱託することができる。 art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-1 The court may commission a person engaged in a delivery service to deliver to a bankruptcy trustee, a postal item or letter item prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators (Act No. 99 of 2002) (referred to as a "postal item, etc." in the following Article and Article 118, paragraph (5)) that is addressed to the bankrupt when it finds it necessary to do so for a bankruptcy trustee to perform their duties. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所は、破産者の申立てにより又は職権で、破産管財人の意見を聴いて、前項に規定する嘱託を取り消し、又は変更することができる。 art-81/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-2 The court may cancel or change the commission prescribed in the preceding paragraph after hearing opinions of a bankruptcy trustee upon the petition of the bankrupt or by its own authority. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 破産手続が終了したときは、裁判所は、第一項に規定する嘱託を取り消さなければならない。 art-81/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-3 Upon the closing of bankruptcy proceedings, the court must cancel the commission prescribed in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項又は第二項の規定による決定及び同項の申立てを却下する裁判に対しては、破産者又は破産管財人は、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-81/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-4 The bankrupt or a bankruptcy trustee may file an immediate appeal against an order made under the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) and a judicial decision to dismiss without prejudice the petition stated in paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第一項の規定による決定に対する前項の即時抗告は、執行停止の効力を有しない。 art-81/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-5 The immediate appeal stated in the preceding paragraph filed against an order made under the provisions of paragraph (1) does not have the effect of stay of enforcement. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-81/par-1: 民間事業者による信書の送達に関する法律（平成十四年法律第九十九号）第二条第三項 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000099, 第二条第三項 (Article 2, paragraph (3)), art-2/par-3 — not held in this collection - art-81/par-1: 次条 → 破産法 第八十二条 (Article 82), art-82 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-82 - art-81/par-1: 第百十八条第五項 → 破産法 第百十八条第五項 (Article 118, paragraph (5)), art-118/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-118/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-118/par-5 - art-81/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第八十一条第一項 (Article 81, paragraph (1)), art-81/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-1 - art-81/par-3: 第一項 → 破産法 第八十一条第一項 (Article 81, paragraph (1)), art-81/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-1 - art-81/par-4: 第一項 → 破産法 第八十一条第一項 (Article 81, paragraph (1)), art-81/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-1 - art-81/par-4: 第二項 → 破産法 第八十一条第二項 (Article 81, paragraph (2)), art-81/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-2 - art-81/par-5: 第一項 → 破産法 第八十一条第一項 (Article 81, paragraph (1)), art-81/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-1 - art-81/par-5: 前項 → 破産法 第八十一条第四項 (Article 81, paragraph (4)), art-81/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-4 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第八十一条第二項（郵便物等の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-2 - 破産法 第八十一条第三項（郵便物等の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-3 - 破産法 第八十一条第四項（郵便物等の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-4 - 破産法 第八十一条第五項（郵便物等の管理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-81/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-81/par-5 --- ## 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