# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（否認に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4161-75/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（否認に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Avoidance of Acts caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4161-75/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-4 **第一項** 新法の施行前にされた行為の否認については、新法第六章第二節（新法第百七十一条から第百七十五条までを除く。）及び第二百三十四条から第二百三十六条までの規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4161-75/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-4/par-1 With regard to avoidance of acts performed before the enforcement of the New Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter VI, Section 2 of the New Act (excluding Articles 171 through 175 of the New Act) and Articles 234 through 236 of the New Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4161-75/art-4/par-1: 第二百三十四条から第二百三十六条まで → 破産法 第二百三十四条 (Article 234), art-234 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-234 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-234 - suppl-4161-75/art-4/par-1: 第二百三十四条から第二百三十六条まで → 破産法 第二百三十五条 (Article 235), art-235 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-235 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-235 - suppl-4161-75/art-4/par-1: 第二百三十四条から第二百三十六条まで → 破産法 第二百三十六条 (Article 236), art-236 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-236 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-236 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 附則第八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/suppl-4161-75/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-4161-75/art-8/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch bankruptcy-act-20261019T021325-004, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19