# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百六十六条 (Article 166) - 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: 第百六十六条 (Article 166)（支払の停止を要件とする否認の制限） — address `art-166` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-166 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-166 - 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. --- ### 第百六十六条（支払の停止を要件とする否認の制限） — (Restrictions on Avoidance Due to Suspension of Payments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-166 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-166 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-166 **第一項** 破産手続開始の申立ての日から一年以上前にした行為（第百六十条第三項に規定する行為を除く。）は、支払の停止があった後にされたものであること又は支払の停止の事実を知っていたことを理由として否認することができない。 art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-166/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-166/par-1 An act conducted not less than one year before the date of filing of a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings (excluding the act prescribed in Article 160, paragraph (3)) may not be avoided by the reason that the act was conducted after the suspension of payments had taken place or while knowing the fact of suspension of payments. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-166/par-1: 第百六十条第三項 → 破産法 第百六十条第三項 (Article 160, paragraph (3)), art-160/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-160/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-160/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百七十四条第三項（破産手続開始の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-574/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-574/par-3 --- ## 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