# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)

- 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
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- Provision: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（破産法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5061-38/art-20`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/suppl-5061-38/art-20
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### 第二十条（破産法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Bankruptcy Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5061-38/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/suppl-5061-38/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-5061-38/art-20</sup>

**第一項**  附則第一条第三号に掲げる規定の施行の日から施行日の前日までの間における前条の規定による改正後の破産法第七十八条第二項第二号の規定の適用については、同号中「貯留権、試掘権」とあるのは、「試掘権」とする。
<sup>suppl-5061-38/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/suppl-5061-38/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-5061-38/art-20/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application, during the period from the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions until the day preceding the effective date, of Article 78, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Bankruptcy Act as amended by the provisions of the preceding Article, the phrase "storage right, prospecting right" in that item is deemed to be replaced with "prospecting right".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5061-38/art-20/par-1: 附則第一条第三号 → 破産法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-5061-38/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/suppl-5061-38/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-5061-38/art-1/par-1/item-3
- suppl-5061-38/art-20/par-1: 破産法第七十八条第二項第二号 → 破産法 第七十八条第二項第二号 (Article 78, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-78/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/art-78/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-78/par-2/item-2

## Cited by

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

- 破産法 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/bankruptcy-act/suppl-5061-38/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/suppl-5061-38/art-1/par-1/item-3

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## 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-20261019T021325-007, translated 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch bankruptcy-act-20261019T021325-007, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 211 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19
