# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第九十条 (Article 90)

- 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: 第九十条 (Article 90)（任務終了の場合の財産の管理） — address `art-90`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-90
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-90
- 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.

---

### 第九十条（任務終了の場合の財産の管理） — (Administration of Property upon Termination of Duties)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-90 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-90 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-90</sup>

    **第一項**  破産管財人の任務が終了した場合において、急迫の事情があるときは、破産管財人又はその承継人は、後任の破産管財人又は破産者が財産を管理することができるに至るまで必要な処分をしなければならない。
    <sup>art-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-90/par-1</sup>
    Upon the termination of a bankruptcy trustee's duties, if there are pressing circumstances, the bankruptcy trustee or their successor must make a necessary disposition until a successor bankruptcy trustee or the bankrupt is able to administer the property.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **第二項**  破産手続開始の決定の取消し又は破産手続廃止の決定が確定した場合には、破産管財人は、財団債権を弁済しなければならない。ただし、その存否又は額について争いのある財団債権については、その債権を有する者のために供託しなければならない。
    <sup>art-90/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-90/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-90/par-2</sup>
    If an order of reversal of an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings or an order of discontinuance of bankruptcy proceedings becomes final and binding, a bankruptcy trustee must pay claims on the estate; provided, however, that with regard to a claim on the estate which is in dispute in terms of its existence or nonexistence or its amount, a bankruptcy trustee must deposit with an official depository in the interest of the person that holds the claim.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 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
