# 破産法 / Bankruptcy Act — 第二百二十六条 (Article 226) - 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: 第二百二十六条 (Article 226)（破産手続開始の決定前の相続の開始） — address `art-226` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百二十六条（破産手続開始の決定前の相続の開始） — (Commencement of Succession Before Order commencing Bankruptcy Proceedings is Issued) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-226 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226 **第一項** 裁判所は、破産手続開始の申立て後破産手続開始の決定前に債務者について相続が開始したときは、相続債権者、受遺者、相続人、相続財産の管理人、相続財産の清算人又は遺言執行者の申立てにより、当該相続財産についてその破産手続を続行する旨の決定をすることができる。 art-226/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-1 When succession has commenced with regard to a debtor after a petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings is filed and before an order commencing bankruptcy proceedings is issued, the court may issue an order to continue the bankruptcy proceedings against the inherited property upon the petition of an creditor of the succession, a legatee, an heir, an administrator of the inherited property, liquidator of the inherited property, or executor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項に規定する続行の申立ては、相続が開始した後一月以内にしなければならない。 art-226/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-2 The petition for continuation prescribed in the preceding paragraph must be filed within one month after the succession commences. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項に規定する破産手続は、前項の期間内に第一項に規定する続行の申立てがなかった場合はその期間が経過した時に、前項の期間内に第一項に規定する続行の申立てがあった場合で当該申立てを却下する裁判が確定したときはその時に、それぞれ終了する。 art-226/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-3 The bankruptcy proceedings prescribed in paragraph (1) is closed, if a petition for continuation prescribed in paragraph (1) is not filed within the period referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the period expires, and if a petition for continuation prescribed in paragraph (1) is made within the period stated in the preceding paragraph and a judicial decision to dismiss the petition becomes final and binding, when the decision becomes final and binding. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項に規定する続行の申立てを却下する裁判に対しては、即時抗告をすることができる。 art-226/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-4 An immediate appeal may be filed against a judicial decision to dismiss the petition for continuation prescribed in paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-226/par-2: 前項 → 破産法 第二百二十六条第一項 (Article 226, paragraph (1)), art-226/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-1 - art-226/par-3: 第一項 → 破産法 第二百二十六条第一項 (Article 226, paragraph (1)), art-226/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-1 - art-226/par-3: 前項 → 破産法 第二百二十六条第二項 (Article 226, paragraph (2)), art-226/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-2 - art-226/par-4: 第一項 → 破産法 第二百二十六条第一項 (Article 226, paragraph (1)), art-226/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 破産法 第二百二十六条第二項（破産手続開始の決定前の相続の開始） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-2 - 破産法 第二百二十六条第三項（破産手続開始の決定前の相続の開始） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-3 - 破産法 第二百二十六条第四項（破産手続開始の決定前の相続の開始） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/bankruptcy-act/art-226/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/416AC0000000075/art-226/par-4 --- ## 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