# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第百七十九条 (Article 179) - 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: 第百七十九条 (Article 179)（役員責任査定決定等） — address `art-179` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-179 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-179 - 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. --- ### 第百七十九条（役員責任査定決定等） — (Officers' Liability Assessment Orders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-179 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-179 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-179 **第一項** 役員責任査定決定及び前条第一項の申立てを棄却する決定には、理由を付さなければならない。 art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-179/par-1 An officers' liability assessment order and an order dismissing the petition referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article must state reasons for them. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 裁判所は、前項に規定する裁判をする場合には、役員を審尋しなければならない。 art-179/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-179/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-179/par-2 The court must interrogate the officers in question when making a judicial decision prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 役員責任査定決定があった場合には、その裁判書を当事者に送達しなければならない。この場合においては、第十条第三項本文の規定は、適用しない。 art-179/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-179/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-179/par-3 When an officers' liability assessment order is made, the written judgment must be served upon the parties concerned. In this case, the provisions of the main clause of Article 10, paragraph (3) do not apply. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-179/par-1: 前条第一項 → 破産法 第百七十八条第一項 (Article 178, paragraph (1)), art-178/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-178/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-178/par-1 - art-179/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第百七十九条第一項 (Article 179, paragraph (1)), art-179/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-179/par-1 - art-179/par-3: 第十条第三項 → 破産法 第十条第三項 (Article 10, paragraph (3)), art-10/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-10/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第百七十九条第二項（役員責任査定決定等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-179/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-179/par-2 - 破産法 第二百四十四条の十一第三項（破産管財人の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-244-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-244-11/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch bankruptcy-act-20261019T021325-002, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 破産法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19